Now that banned books month is over, lets get that filthy "Farenheit 451" out of the classroom!

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i‧ro‧ny1 /ˈaɪrəni, ˈaɪər-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -nies.
1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
2. Literature.
a. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
b. (esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
3. Socratic irony.
4. dramatic irony.
5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
6. the incongruity of this.
7. an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
8. an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

"If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all."

Pretty much sums it up right there.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

"Alton Verm said he doesn't understand how the district can punish students for using bad language, yet require them to read a book with bad language as part of a class."

good point!

― and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll bet this guy would probably "not see the big deal" about a public school nativity scene. But then a word referring to sex is more offensive than the suggestion of a conception without sex, right?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Alton Verm's request to ban "Fahrenheit 451" came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban "Fahrenheit 451," a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

God created irony to punish humanity

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

ken c's not that bad surely

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read "Fahrenheit 451."

― gear (gear), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Re God and irony: These guys wouldn't get the joke.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish oskar werner was still around, just so's he can punch this guy

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, don't mess with Texas.

― EsteBAN LOUIS JAGGER (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

my mom's a school librarian she's always dealing with this shit. There's always some confused/angry parent who doesn't want their kid reading "Huck Finn" or "Fahrenheit 451" or Judy Blume or whoever.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

you'd think a mom would be thrilled that her kid wanted to read ANYTHING.

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

NCISD banned "Draw Me a Star" by Eric Carle...

Ah yes, the author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. SCANDALOUS!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

hungry caterpillars encourage obesity!

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"wanted to read"

xxpost

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 2 October 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, "was reading"

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

The two students were given "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn because it shares common themes with "Fahrenheit 451," said Chris Hines, CISD assistant superintendent for secondary education.

This is a sweet substitution, though! Ella Minnow Pea is a fluffy little, umm, epistolary lipogram -- letters of the alphabet are continually banned across the writing of it. I'm guessing when I was 15 I'd have enjoyed it more than Farenheit 451.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

god bless america

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.raybradbury.com/images/photo_kids.jpg

http://www.raybradbury.com/images/photo_hef.jpg

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

This looks like an Onion photograph:

― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.zwire.com/local/Z/Zwire1574/zwire/images/2006/10/story/20061002_103159_1_story.jpg

― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

"Fat Morons Find True Love At Book-Burning"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

his idiot daughter didn't have to read the book. so why doesn't he shut the fuck up?

I had a few one kid like this in one of my english classes in high school; he was a born again christian (to his parents' shame, apparently; they were buddhists from china) and he refused to read at least two books. I can't remember what they were now.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

My A Level English teacher told me she had one girl run out in tears because they were going to read Dr Faustus by Marlowe. Which, as it's effectively a morality play, is incredibly workable as a pro-Christian piece (although I don't choose to read it as such, admittedly). But, no, it mentions the devil, so must be evil. Uh. So the Bible is evil, then?

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

yes

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"you technically can't even go to the bathroom"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Hehehe, well, I'm against most organised religion, so I don't like it except as a work of fiction, but I mean in these people's minds, obviously. If you're so Xian that you can't read a mention of Satan, you can't read the Bible either.

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link

All books either contradict the bible, and are therefore satanic, or repeat what the bible says, and are therefore worthless.(/fruitcake logic)

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

@brofromanother
Turns out you don't have to go to Cannes to sit through a bad Ray Bradbury adaptation and then compose a glib tweet about it

(I haven't seen it)

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link

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