That plus Faulkner being a Nobel-prize winning author means it will stay.

And now I feel really weird about the whole experience.

At least I didn't pay actual money for this experience, I guess

Anyway I noped out at that point and brought the audiobook back from the library.

But the damage had already been done -- next time that little-used collection is weeded, this will be one of the few with a recent circ

But I could kind of ... like acknowledge it but also ignore it.

And then I got to the next story and... whooboy. Updating one term in that story would not come even close to saving it. It was racist racist, not "people used different words then" racist

Like in ARFE it was uncomfortable, and a vivid reminder about how much the discourse has shifted since the 1980s/1990s.

(I was also reading Delany's Dhalgren during this Faulkner revisit. Language has changed, man!)

Boy howdy, I remembered also hearing about how racist his stories are right quick

(And by first Bush I mean first Bush, not first Shrub term)

Short stories seem ideal for my needs and I vaguely remember really liking A Rose for Emily when I read it in hs (first Bush era)

I suppose I could go through and weed some of these, while I'm here.

any mention of lobbying governments or corporations for environmental standards? Vanished. Acknowledgement of Nestlé's role? We don't talk about that publicly.

This is how we got to nonsense straw bans.

You, Jane, you slovenly selfish girl, you must recycle the waste you created by buying that bottle of water. (Pre-TikTok water-Tok was in full effect that decade.)

Meanwhile...

again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this

I knew this was coming as soon as I saw the email from ALA saying that IMLS funding had been approved 😑

got it - I'll email it to you

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.”
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