[lbo-talk] Too Old for Rap (was Lumpen)

[Jim Devine]

when I was in High School, we were reading some ancient Greek novels
by Mary Renault. My group was reading "The Last of the Wine." Parents
intervened and cancelled that, because of the gay content.

CC: > A few years ago a couple in a small town near B/N began writing
letters to the local paper attacking the teaching of Chaucer in high
school. <
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Jim Devine
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an
intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin