If you're going to bury them, why not be honest and burn them?

[alfreda89]

Okay--

As the convention button says: "They got the library at Alexandria. They're not getting mine."

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101896768316400.xml

Here ends your blogging announcement for the next week or so....

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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Will they ban books about Alexander the Great? What about Julius Caesar and his fling?

I hadn't read that Caesar was bisexual, but yes, probably--they're that frightened. They see rampant divorce, and instead of making divorce harder--and marriage for heteros harder, like you must be 25 or older, or something that would indicate some maturity--they're going for the reassuring route.

As for Alexander--did you hear that the Greeks were up in arms about the current movie? A kiss or something ? There was going to be a huge stink made, and then at the last minute, they decided not to say anything. They were quite incensed about the suggestion that old Alex might have been bi....