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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.world/users/obtener/statuses/113640135729446901">Georgiann Baldino (obtener@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 14:14:05 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/@obtener" title="obtener@mastodon.world"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/152120-48-20230722010255.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Georgiann Baldino" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Georgiann Baldino</a></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BookBan" rel="tag">#BookBan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USPolitics" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4183422#notice-8175806">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-14T14:14:05+09:00" title="Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 14:14:05 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.world/@obtener/113640135729446901" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.world via ActivityPub">mastodon.world</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.world/@obtener/113640135729446901">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3695755">Post by sober scientist life:
"Did you know John Steinbeck's depression-era classic 'The Grapes of Wrath' is among the 'Top 100 books banned' in America? I can see why:
"Here's a short passage from Chapter 25: 'There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertle Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of (hunger) must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot (if not sold at a profit)."...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."</a></label><br><a href="https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/640/128/360/144/536/original/69c0524693548608.jpeg" rel="external">https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/640/128/360/144/536/original/69c0524693548608.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Georgiann Baldino (obtener@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 14:14:05 JST Georgiann Baldino
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1. Post by sober scientist life: "Did you know John Steinbeck's depression-era classic 'The Grapes of Wrath' is among the 'Top 100 books banned' in America? I can see why: "Here's a short passage from Chapter 25: 'There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertle Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of (hunger) must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot (if not sold at a profit). "...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
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