Posted by Mike Field on January 14, 2001 at 10:34:33 from 203.26.98.4:
In Reply to: Re: faggots etc posted by Robert Dilley on January 13, 2001 at 20:16:23:
Only insofar as to say that I agree entirely with you, Robert, when you say that the text should be left unchanged, and simply read in the context of the time in which it was written.
We all read AR in context, after all. I'm quite sure no-one would want today's "personal water craft" (stupid term) mentioned as additional hazards for Swallow and Amazon to contend with on the lake. And what about Swallow and Amazon themselves? Should they be updated, perhaps, to fibreglass? How would John go about applying linseed oil to an aluminium mast? Woiuld he have to acid-etch it first? There's just no end to such stupidity once it starts.
While we're on this subject, I still find it hard to believe that everything written by Enid Blyton was banned from our state schools here about twenty years back. A couple of crazies in the wrong place at the right time thought they knew better than everyone else, and decided that her books weren't "educational," and therefore had no place in schools. Banning Enid Blyton! I ask you!
Time to get off my soap-box. Anyone else want a turn?