Monday, April 24, 2006

Suspicians Confirmed

We were visited tonight by a prominent author of young adult fiction named Chris Crutcher in my Lit for Adolescents class. On the topic of censorship he had this to say:

"Words don't do damage. They're arbitrary."

1 comment:

Ibid said...

That sounds like the remark Humpty-Dumpty made in Alice and Wonderland about words meaning whatever he wanted them to mean. And keep in mind, he was an egghead.