OT McElligot's Pool

Was anybody buying it? It costs money - not a lot - to keep a book in print .

is now out of print. For while the UK National Physical Laboratory would pr int off individual copies and get them bound, but they gave up on that. The copy on my shelf is now worth roughly $1,000, which is lot more than I pai d for it.

And amusingly Geisel had the same politics as theirs. I notice nobody's tried cancelling The Lorax or The Butter Battle Book. ;)

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Phil Hobbs

Yeah he got a little too preachy for my tastes in his later books. I searched for Deegel trout and found this.

Caldecott winner 1947, removed from the catalog 2021. It's totally insane... I've seen zero push back from the left. (To the contrary they all seem to agree that it's a good thing these offensive images have been taken off the shelves.)

George H. Oh, Deegel trout were purchased from the Deegel hatchery in the event of an unsuccessful fishing expedition. I'm certainly going trout fishing this spring, and raising a pint to T.R. Geisel.

Meanwhile this idiotic thing is available everywhere:

To a very large extent, books go out of print because they are no longer popular enough to make it worth the cost of keeping them in print and in stock. Sometimes a publisher will choose to stop printing a book for other reasons, sometimes resellers will stop stocking a book for other reasons. And of course sometimes there are court orders to stop a book because of libel, copyright violation, etc. It is very rare in a democracy for a book to be banned in some way by governmental or state authorities. Mostly books go out of print due to simple economics.

Mein Kampf is still popular enough - hopefully due to historians rather than neo-Nazis or other extreme right-wing nutcases - that it is worth keeping in print.

I suspect that an old book on fishing is simply not popular enough to bother printing or stocking.

Everything's a "woke left" conspiracy, surely no actual Chinese people themselves could have been annoyed at 150 years of buck-tooth cartoons and "me so solly!" jokes:

Oh, for the days when "conservative" meant something other than perpetual outrage at the perceived loss of the right to be a senseless bigot, constantly incensed over the refusal of other types of people to bend the knee consistently.

Well, no. Causing the Republican party to contract into a ragtag band of histrionic bigots and close-to-open white nationalists, screaming about "cancel culture" and picture books for children, making bomb and death threats about it, and storming government buildings in the name of a dilapidated former game-show host who learned the trivial skill of telling 'em what they want to hear, is in fact the goal, I won't lie to you.

But it's not much of a "conspiracy" - there's not much need to manipulate people into doing things they're well-predisposed to already.

Geisel was a Stalinist like Woody Guthrie.

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Phil Hobbs

Well I find it hard to believe you don't consider anyone left of Rand Paul to be a "Stalinist", frankly.

Don't worry though. Anti-Trump sentiment in America is broad, but not particularly deep. It's in the main a very conservative country, but the conservatives who aren't Trump fanatics may call themselves something else at some point. Maybe "Democrats"! Heh!

I don't regularly encounter Stalinists in my neck of the woods, so they don't pose quite the level of y'know. existential threat that maybe they do to some others.

Hey here's a joke what does the "55 MPH" on the Charles M. Braga bridge into Fall River mean. It means "55 million Portuguese here"

It's important to remember the time and the place. Do you want to cancel George Washington for owning slaves?

George H.

Nice. But those ones seem to be genuine!

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Phil Hobbs

Two of my favorite Stalinists. (I like Pete Seeger too.. you could have guessed that maybe.) I keep thinking we can have a civilized conversation... silly me.

George H.

What's uncivilized about it?

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Phil Hobbs

Dr. Seuss was hardly George Washington. Or George Washington Carver, for that matter

You think because they remove a statue of Robert E. Lee everyone's gonna forget Robert E. Lee?

Seems rather unlikely.

I meant with bitrex.. sorry after I posted it I thought... Phil might take that wrong.

I assume we are in violent agreement about publishing Dr. Seuss... whether you want to read it to your kids or not is your choice.

George H.