Thanks for the advice
Twitter? At my age
We'll see. But I'll do summat
I may post some more proverbs! I think the censorships are the punchiest;
the others are a slower burn
I know The Late Late Show. Ish. I don't even know British TV. I saw some
in January in a rented room.
Thanks
L
On Tue, March 1, 2011 20:51, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Lawrence,
>
>
> If I were you and had been lucky enough to write this intriguing text, I
> would email it (with a question) to Craig Ferguson (preferably via
> twitter) in hopes that he might read it to millions of viewers on The
> Late Late Show, broadcast on the major television network CBS in the
> states, but accessible all over the world. Many samples from the show
> available on youtube. He's presently the most brilliant talk show host
> in the US, despite his origins in Scotland, and censorship stands front
> and center as perhaps his major topoi. I watch his show virtually every
> night, trying to sort out what aspect might be thought of as performance
> art. My candidate: the appearances of Sid the Cussing Bunny from north
> London.
>
>
> Barry
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>
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> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:57:16 -0000, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Respect the censors, they know things which you do not.
>> Censors are the fulcra of liberty.
>> Only the dangerous leave their speech uncensored.
>> Self-censorship enables the art of learning.
>> Thought is the censor of activity.
>> Teaching is wise censorship.
>> Wise censorship is educative.
>> Legal activity is the censor of destructive thought.
>> He who keeps his peace keeps the peace.
>> Denial is not rebuttal.
>> A censor is average but not mean.
>> Public figures need not be censored.
>> The ship of state is censorship.
>> Truth does not lie in a censored text.
>> Censorship maintains complacency among the faithful.
>> Excision brings precision.
>> Does a sheep quibble over words?
>> Does a hawk care what name its prey has?
>> The dying do not tell the truth until they have despaired.
>> Only the foolish think their words are free.
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>>
>> ---
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>> --
>> Long interview from 1998
>> http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
>>
>
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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Long interview from 1998
http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
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