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To: Ciexyz

Maybe this will have the opposite effect and encourage the youth to read Pushkin like the kids read Lady Chatterly's Lover when I was in high school.


7 posted on 01/30/2005 1:13:10 PM PST by Eva
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To: Eva
Maybe this will have the opposite effect and encourage the youth to read Pushkin like the kids read Lady Chatterly's Lover when I was in high school.

That's what I was thinking. Usually the banning or censoring of anything pushes the sales far beyond what they would have been without the ban.

11 posted on 01/30/2005 2:26:30 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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I can't remember anything overly erotic about the Pushkin I read in college, but the poetry did include long passages of unrequited love, gloom, doom, and misery of a broken heart. Maybe if they really wanted to read something erotic into it....after all, those Russian winters were brutally frigid....


12 posted on 01/30/2005 2:30:28 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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