Kurt Vonnegut on the subject of burning books... (tweeted image)

[Pluvious]

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[Pluvious]

1. The last great Republican...

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[alwaysinasnit]

4. Great posting. Sadly, Eisenhower would be totally repudiated by the current Repub party.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. A writer like no other.

[Hekate]

3. KnR

[Pluvious]

5. This is sickening

Effectively, such suppression is just another form of banning / burning

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[Midnight Writer]

6. Now they'll have to ban Vonnegut's books. So it goes.

[bmichaelh]

7. Heinrich Heine

In the 19th century, the German poet Heinrich Heine, said, prophetically:

Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Burned at the stake - an interesting subject unless you were the subject.

Burned at the stake - an interesting subject unless you were the subject.

Several writers have described it. Horrific.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=burn+at+the+stake

1. It was a punishment especially concerned with the ladies

While heretics and witches were often destined for the purifying flames, women committed of particularly heinous crimes, like killing their husbands or high treason, were bound for the stake because it was said to protect their modesty. Sir William Blackstone, at the time, phrased it, ‘for the decency due to the sex forbids exposing in public mangling their bodies.’ Men? The hangman’s noose and the disemboweller’s knife were perfectly fine for them but the women were destined for the demure nature of the fire.

[calimary]

9. DAYUM! Three great quotes in this thread!

I'm keeping all three. But which one to use this weekend...?

[progressoid]

10. He wrote that in his 2005 book "A Man Without a Country" during the Bush II nightmare.

“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country