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betenoire · 01-06-2011, 12:16 PM

"It's like it never happened!" I say that a lot after I've cleaned up a mess I've made, swept up broken glass, get enough caught up on a delinquent payment that the phonecalls stop coming. It's not a true statement, of course: the trash can is fuller, I've got one less drinking glass, my credit report is a scandal. But it's a statement that makes me feel better. It's like it never happened.

That's what's happening here. Whoever is behind the decision to edit Twain wants to feel better about the past, at the expense of honesty. I guess if they ever went ahead and edited all future printings and history books (which they totally already are doing!) and censored the hell out of the internet they could clap their tiny hands and say it's like it never happened - and 70 years from now there would be nobody left who knew that it had happened...but that doesn't undo anything.

View Poll Results: Do you think Huck Finn should be revised?
It's a classic and it should stay as written during Twain's time.	80	94.12%
It's time for an update to get rid of any racial slurs or references.	2	2.35%
Well all considered, logic says Gone With The Wind should be updated too.	3	3.53%
Voters: 85. You may not vote on this poll

01-06-2011, 12:16 PM	#28
betenoire Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Satan in a Sunday Hat Preferred Pronoun?: Maow Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: The Chemical Valley Posts: 4,086 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,312 Thanked 8,739 Times in 2,565 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	"It's like it never happened!" I say that a lot after I've cleaned up a mess I've made, swept up broken glass, get enough caught up on a delinquent payment that the phonecalls stop coming. It's not a true statement, of course: the trash can is fuller, I've got one less drinking glass, my credit report is a scandal. But it's a statement that makes me feel better. It's like it never happened. That's what's happening here. Whoever is behind the decision to edit Twain wants to feel better about the past, at the expense of honesty. I guess if they ever went ahead and edited all future printings and history books (which they totally already are doing!) and censored the hell out of the internet they could clap their tiny hands and say it's like it never happened - and 70 years from now there would be nobody left who knew that it had happened...but that doesn't undo anything. __________________ bête noire \bet-NWAHR\, noun: One that is particularly disliked or that is to be avoided.