Yes, certainly Carol has outdone herself on the topic of banned or burned books, but anyway it may be helpful sometimes to have a list of banned books that might well be avoided to spare myself the hassle, although I was not aware of Anne Frank being on the banned books list. Now you tell me.
Monday, November 2, 2026
Which Reminds Me
Yes, I vaguely remember that when we were living in El Salvador in 1970s, the first McDonald's was built on Boulevard de los Heroes, directly behind the house where we were living at the time. One day Ann Campbell came to our house with two people visiting from New York, and we went with them to the McDonald's behind our house, a great novelty at the time. However, the conversation was forgettable. The two persons from New York had no vocabulary, only F... F... F... I forget what their names were, so I have no way of explaining them or who they were. You would have to ask Ann about that, I have no idea. Just because Ann is Canadian, that does not mean that all U.S. citizens swear like Raymond and Thomas.
Which Reminds Me
Yes, I could not understand who that was online, whether a high school classmate or a demon, who was being very critical of me, because I had been seen reading a certain book, or maybe checked it out of the library. The book was the Diary of Anne Frank, and I read it because it had been recommended, but anyway, that is not to say that I would want to talk about it or say anything about that part of the book. Sometimes these books are important historically, even if there are also some parts that are sort of shocking. Sometimes it is sort of embarrassing to get halfway through a book and suddenly find a discussion of some unpleasant matters. So what about that?
Which Reminds Me
Yes, I vaguely remmeber that one day in high school economics class, our teacher, Dr. DePaul, was telling us about his weekend. He had flown in a plane to see Tikal, the ancient pyramid in nearby Guatemala, and upon arriving there, he was hearing Led Zeppelin music playing on a radio, and he soon found that some students from the class were also there at the same time, maybe Raymond and some other guys, and so he was not able to escape from his students, at least not that weekend.
Which Reminds Me
Yes, I am not remembering who presented the song "Wooden Ships' in Miss Marken's class during song lyric analysis workshop. I only remember that he likened it to the Spanish conquistadors who, after arriving in America, often burned their wooden ships on the shore, whether because they were not in a condition to make the return journey or because they wanted to remind themselves that there was no easy escape from the job ahead of them, of building a New World in the Americas. They would have to do or die, not sail away at the first difficiulty but make the best of the situation they would find.
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Which Reminds Me
Yes, we often hear of the Woodstock people crowing about how they need to "get back to the garden." I am not sure how that would help matters, given that we may be, as the song says, "caught in the Devil's bargain." That is why we needed a Saviour, someone to pay the penalty of our sins, someone to wash our sins away and give us a new heart and a clean conscience.
Woodstock only brings us back to the point of where we originally went wrong. It does not provide any solution to the dilemma.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)