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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
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Every burned enlightens the world

0 "In the days before the mass marketing of books, censorship was 01i00___ source of ___02i00, which helped the sale of the book and inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson to remark: “Every burned enlightens the world”. 02br
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00The offical answer is C. I doubt it. Judged from Emerson's remark:"Every burned enlighteneds the world, we can tell that the censorship had bugs. 02br
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0 I think C is the answer. ), so would zoom out to buy it. 0-

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0 I think C is the answer. It just means that if a book were censored, everyone knew it must be juicy(!), so would zoom out to buy it. 0-
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0 I think C is the answer. It just means that if a book were censored, everyone knew it must be juicy(!), so would zoom out to buy it, or would at least have heard of it. 0-
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0 What if the book is censored and considered to have inappropriate content, and is prevented from publishing? :-s 02br
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00By the way, could you please explain Emerson's remark: Every burned enlightens the world? Is "every" here referring to every book that is prevented from publishing? 0-
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00What if the book is censored and considered to have inappropriate content, and is prevented from publishing?12blockquote
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00There will have remained several copies of it and all people will want to read it. I agree, the answer is C. 02br
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0 I agree that it's C; but I wonder whether the use of the Emerson quote is slightly misleading. 02br
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00The first part of the statement relates to the distribution of books purely in terms of sales; but the Emerson quote surely implies that when books are banned or burned, it's often because they have 'enlightening' content (Galileo, etc). 02br
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0 I believe the correct quote is, "Every burned 01b00book02b00 enlightens the world." 0-
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