[Logophile]

. . . I would like to congratulate the students, parents and teachers who have supported the use of my book in Advanced Placement courses. They have aligned themselves against the censors, book-banners and book-burners throughout the ages and have stood up for open discussion and a free expression of opinion — which, last time I looked, was still the American way, though that way is under pressure.

Someone needs to tell Ms. Atwood about the dangers of hyperventilating like this.

Then she needs to be told that the excludion of a book from a particular coarse is not censorship, or book-banning, or book burning. There is no end to the number of books in the world; only a few can be examined in any course.

I have not read Ms. Atwood's novel; but if this sample of her writing is any indication, there are probably good reasons not to include her book.

[Logophile]

Oops: excludion should be exclusion.