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I’m with the banned.

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read.

 don’t stop reading

read every book

in spite of banned books week 

read every week. 

‘write what should not be forgotten.’

-Isabel Allende, Chilean-American author

 

Interesting note:

“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.”
Craig Nelson,Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

art credit: Alicia Martin, Spain-based artist’s sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid