London Under
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collapsed roof of the cathedral broke through. When the booksellers opened the vault the rush of air made the paper leap into flames and the books burned for a week. Charles Dickens exhibited a proper London fascination for underground places when he declared in an essay, “The City of the Absent” (1861
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set aside. The sheer waste of human potential that was the New Republic's raison d'etre offended her sensibilities as badly as a public book-burning, or a massacre of innocents. The New Republic was 250 years old, 250 light-years from Earth. When the Eschaton had relocated nine-tenths of
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Kästner and his relationship with the Nazis (and the burning of his books) can be seen at Spiegel Online: www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/nazi-book-burning-anniversary-erich-kaestner-and-the-nazis-a-894845.html. 2 Erich Kästner, When I Was a Little Boy, trans. Isabel and Florence McHugh (Jonathan Cape
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, judging by the testimony of panelists. Pat Cloherty, of New York–based Patricof & Company (whose Mephistophelean partners were dished up in Michael Wolff’s 1998 book, Burn Rate), spoke of her firm’s highly evolved hierarchy: analysts, associates, senior associates, principals, and at the apex, partners. Sonja Hoel, a young venture capitalist
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I You We Them
by Dan Gretton
Nama had long been exterminated by the time they got round to burning the evidence.1 On 10 May 1933, the Nazis began their notorious book-burning campaign at Opernplatz in Berlin. As Goebbels addressed the students on that night, telling them, ‘You do well in this midnight hour to commit to
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by Catherine Nixey · 20 Sep 2017
terms meant – went up in smoke in public bonfires. In Alexandria, Antioch and Rome, bonfires of books blazed and Christian officials looked on in satisfaction. Book-burning was approved of, even recommended by, Church authorities. ‘Search out the books of the heretics . . . in every place,’ advised the fifth-century Syrian bishop Rabbula
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and saint named Shenoute entered the house of a man suspected of being a pagan and removed all his books.3 The Christian habit of book-burning went on to enjoy a long history. A millennium later, the Italian preacher Savonarola wanted the works of the Latin love poets Catullus, Tibullus and
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disgusted by the sight of burning and demolished temples was – is – brushed aside. The idea that intellectuals were appalled – and scared – by the sight of books burning in pyres, is forgotten. Christianity told the generations that followed that their victory over the old world was celebrated by all, and the generations that
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Press, 1968, 1974; reprinted 1978) Richlin, A., The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humour (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983) Rohmann, D., Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity; Studies in Text Transmission (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2016) Rousselle, A., Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity (Oxford
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Corinthians (Argument); John Chrysostom, Homily 7 on First Corinthians, 9. For this and other points see the excellent and original book by Dirk Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity, to which this paragraph and the following are much indebted. It is striking – and an indication of where academic sympathies
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