Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 14:14:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Buster <jmaroon1-AT-mail.airmail.net>
Subject: Re: Never Again...


At 09:10 PM 12/3/96 -0600, K. Rengren wrote:

>Thanks, flame me freely but from now on I'll be talking puppets only,

Thank you for the valuable information.  I found comforting the fact that
this was not a vote but rather a survey to see if there was anyone who
actually wanted it.

That said, I don't think that censorship is outside the bounds of this list.
Having been a victim of censorship as a puppeteer (and probably the reason I
feel so strongly about it), I think it highly relevent.  I even have a
friend who has changed his entire routine to satisfy the censors, just so he
could get work, because schools are now so gun-shy of the the religious
right.  And as I said in a previous post, the history of Punch in this
country is rife with incidents of censorship, as the powers that be often
tried to silence his wonderfully subversive voice, always to no avail.  

So, in the limited context of free speech as it pertains to puppetry and
other arts, I think there is a place for it here.

--Jim Maroon
The Storytelling Home Page    http://members.aol.com/storypage



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