This was in the Los Angeles Times yesterday (reported by the AP): "In Iran, Pizzas Will Now be Called Loaves". They're getting rid of foreign words that have inundated their language. "'Chat' will become 'a short talk.'"
Also, a photo ran of a man in Tyre, Lebanon, gathering his books strewn about from a bombing. There is so much about the war that saddens me, but I had to cut this image out of the paper. It's on the wall above this computer. Such a visceral image.
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Barbara,
Have you seen Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" or the Ray Bradbury novel on which it was based?
I am so very fascinated by the idea of the people/book!
Yes, I have and I always found it incomprehensible, living during a time when books were actively destroyed.
It is frightening, isn't it? But there is hope,as long as people keep thier minds open and question what happens around them.
When I was a child I saw Fahrenheit 451, I was perhaps 7 years old, my big sister took me. We didn't pick the movies we saw then, we just went to see whatever was playing. I had no idea what the movie was about, but those images of books being gathered to be burned were singed in my memory. As I grew, I coveted books knowing their precarious status...
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