Nonsenseorship Sundry Observations Concerning Prohibitions, Inhibitions, and Illegalities
By Heywood Broun
Length4h 17m
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[...]"Indeed, if there had only been right-minded supervision over the modelling of Adam and Eve the world could worry along nicely without the aid of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Suppression of those biological facts which the Society includes in its definition of Vice is now impossible. Concealment is really what the good men are after. Somewhat after the manner of the Babes in the Woods they would cover us over with leaves. For men and women they have figs and for babies they have cabbages. It must have been a censor who first hit upon the notion that what you don't know won't hurt you. We doubt whether it is a rule which applies to sex. Eve left Eden and took upon herself a curse for the sake of knowledge. It seems a little heedless of this heroism to advocate that we keep the curse and forget the knowledge. The battle against censorship should have ended at the moment of the eating of the apple. At that moment Man committed himself to the decision that he would know all about life even though he died for it. Unfortunately, under the terms of the existence of mortals one decision is not enough. We must keep reaffirming decisions if they are to hold. Even in Eden there was the germ of a new threat to degrade Adam and Eve back to innocence. When they ate the apple an amoeba in a distant corner of the Garden shuddered and began the long and difficult process of evolution."[...]
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1WE HAVE WITH US TODAY
9THE WOWZER IN THE SOUTH SEAS
2EVOLUTION
10REFORMERS: A HYMN OF HATE
3NONSENSEORSHIP
11PROHIBITION
4LITERATURE AND THE BASTINADO
12A GUESS AT UNWRITTEN HISTORY
5THE WOMAN'S PLACE
13IN VINO DEMI-TASSE
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6OWED TO VOLSTEAD
14BOOTLEG
7THE CENSORSHIP OF THOUGHT
15AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
8THE UNINHIBITED FLAPPER
16THE ORACLE THAT ALWAYS SAYS "NO"
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