Success and Censorship
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- GeorgeP_6
- David_Poulson
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- Joe_Sramek
- GeorgeP_6
- David_Poulson
- giridhar
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» GeorgeP_6 - Shortly after I learned Esperanto, in the late 1970's, I was ask
Shortly after I learned Esperanto, in the late 1970's, I was asked to fly to Fairbanks to serve as recording secretary for a meeting of the Alaska State Libraries Commission which had been scheduled to coincide with the opening of the new Fairbanks Public Library. At the reception afterward, the director of the University of Alaska Library System noticed the tiny green star pin (symbol of Esperanto) I was wearing in the lapel of my sportscoat and remarked "Oh, I know what that is!". Then he explained that someone had recently come to the University library to do research for a book about Richard Geoghegan, an important figure in the history of Alaska's Interior because he was the secretary of Judge James Wickersham, at that time the sole magistrate in hundreds of square kilometers. it. According to the library director, the researcher discovered that some of Geoghegan's journals and diaries were written in Esperanto, and hence had to learn the language in order to read them... and then discovered that hidden within were graphic descriptions of Geoghegan's relationships with the "line girls" (Fairbanks prostitutes of the Gold Rush days)! Geoghegan was, it seems, a hunchback and physically unpreposessing, but he was unfailingly polite and kind to the ladies of the street, and in turn it was some of them who cared for him during his final illness. Fascinating man... and definitely a talented linguist. Also... there's a letter from Zamenhof in which he claims that he got the idea of associating the colour green with Esperanto, from a conversation with Geoghegan... who was Anglo-Irish, and mentioned to Z that green, the colour of a book he G was carrying, was the colour of Ireland, Spring... and Hope.-- posted by GeorgeP_6
» David_Poulson - Tolstoy's unacceptable opinions! These are the kind of thoughts
Tolstoy's unacceptable opinions! These are the kind of thoughts which made him "an enemy of the State."(I hope you find the little snippets below of some interest and I hope my little story doesn't get censored out of existence;-).
"A Christian does not quarrel with any one,
does not attack any one, nor use violence against one;
on the contrary, he himself without murmuring bears violence;
but by this very relation to violence he not only frees himself,
but also the world from external power. "
Leo Tolstoy
" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it
must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
Leo Tolstoy
"The evil committed by man not only weakens his soul
and deprives him of true happiness,
but more often than not
falls back on the one who commits it."
Leo Tolstoy
"Eventually institutional violence will disappear,
not as a result of external action,
but thanks only to the calls of conscience of men
who have awakened to the truth."
Leo Tolstoy
"Every man, in refusing to take part in military service
or to pay taxes to a government
which uses them for military purposes, is,
by this refusal, rendering a great service to God and man,
for he is thereby making use of the most efficacious means
of furthering the progressive movement of mankind
toward that better social order which it is striving after
and must eventually attain."
Leo Tolstoy
-- posted by David_Poulson
» David_Poulson - Thanks very much, George, for a terrific footnote on Richard Geo
Thanks very much, George, for a terrific footnote on Richard Geoghegan.I'll be introducing more fascinating characters from the history of Esperanto in later Topic articles and I hope you will be able to make more contributions like this one.
Multajn dankojn, samideano.
-- posted by David_Poulson
» Joe_Sramek - Very interesting.... keep it coming!!! And that's my £1 17s.
Very interesting.... keep it coming!!!And that's my £1 17s. 6d!!!
Joseph Sramek
Contributing Editor
20th Century British History and Politics
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-- posted by Joe_Sramek
» GeorgeP_6 - Actually, there's another interesting connection in my story: th
Actually, there's another interesting connection in my story: the director of the University of Alaska libraries who told me the Geoghegan story was Ted Ryberg, well-known on a national scale as a leader in the fight of the American Library Association against... censorship!David Richardson has an unpublished English-langauge biography of Geoghegan in manuscript. I hope it gets published someday.
-- posted by GeorgeP_6
» David_Poulson - I know that Suite101 has its own Censorship Topic but I do encou
I know that Suite101 has its own Censorship Topic but I do encourage readers to visit this link as well, if you are at all interested in the subject.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned...
You'll be surprised! Even "Little Red Riding Hood" is there, in company with a whole shelf-load of classics.
Go see for yourselves.
-- posted by David_Poulson
» giridhar - Tolstoy's 'sentiments'
'Some of Tolstoy's sentiments can be read here'http://www.west.net/~beck/WP18-Tolstoy.h...
This link gives an error.
Regards
A Giridhar RAO
Hyderabad, India
-- posted by giridhar
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