tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post7238531031503402240..comments2024-03-29T09:30:50.280-06:00Comments on La Bloga: BibliocaustContributing Bloguistas:http://www.blogger.com/profile/13054190814722049711noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-46123128766996120502008-09-17T12:12:00.000-06:002008-09-17T12:12:00.000-06:00It was very moving. Thank you for enlightening me ...It was very moving. Thank you for enlightening me to this dark time in history, and so it begins again, and again. People must always fight for books BOOKS=KNOWLEDGE=POWER<BR/><BR/>Keep the powerless, powerless!<BR/><BR/>It's just so sad!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-22294323116736932992008-09-15T19:36:00.000-06:002008-09-15T19:36:00.000-06:00I agree with Manuel Ramos, "We can resist the cens...I agree with Manuel Ramos, "We can resist the censors when they come to our town, and just like the librarian of a small Alaskan library, we can fight for the books." That's because we have freedom of speech in the USA!<BR/><BR/>We also have freedom of religion. If Palin had asked her church librarian to ban some books and the congregation had okayed it, she could avoid being called a censor or a destroyer of secular books.<BR/><BR/>The same applies to Diego de Landa, Bishop of Yucatán. The codices and cult images he destroyed were religious in nature. He was sent to the New World to "save the souls of the Lowland Mayans." Sometimes he saved them from the Spanish settlers and sometimes from their old religion that called for human sacrifice, drowning, and cannibalism of human hearts. Since he thought the codices perpetuated these devil-like behaviors, he followed his Church instead of his State's beliefs and got rid of the "evil" religious literature of that time.<BR/><BR/>If he was a zealot, it was because the Spanish crown ruled that the 'child-like Mayans" couldn't be punished for heresy. If he was a scholar, it is because he wanted to understand the people whose souls he was supposed to save. It is ironic that Diego de Landa, who was absolved by the Council of the Indies, was also acknowledged for writing "La Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán, which has been a treasure trove to ethnolinguists all over the world. It just goes to show that Fernando Báez needs to indicate which historical era's or separation of Church and State standard's he's using when he blames ethnolinguist's for the destruction of inhumane writings.<BR/><BR/>Norma Landa FloresAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-60684764842726387172008-09-12T19:29:00.000-06:002008-09-12T19:29:00.000-06:00A "Por favor":El problema es que nos quitaron nues...A "Por favor":<BR/><BR/>El problema es que nos quitaron nuestro lenguaje. Es parte del coloniolismo. Es dificil, si no más, escribir y/o traducir nuestros pensamientos, etc.<BR/><BR/>Lo siento que todavía no puedo/mos poner todos nuestros artículos en el primer idioma. A ver que un día nos hallamos modo de hacer la mejor presentación--en dos lenguas.<BR/><BR/>Nosostros de La Bloga esperamos que llega de prisa.<BR/><BR/>RudyGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-36382183000772305072008-09-12T10:43:00.000-06:002008-09-12T10:43:00.000-06:00¡Escribe en castellano!¡Escribe en castellano!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-33577104420711068992008-09-12T08:58:00.000-06:002008-09-12T08:58:00.000-06:00One of the chapters I did not mention is entitled ...One of the chapters I did not mention is entitled Books Destroyed in Fiction - a chronicle of how some authors have treated book burnings in their stories, beginning with Cervantes and Don Quixote and traveling through time with Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells ("brown and charred rags ... the decaying vestiges of books"), Ray Bradbury and Farenheit 451, Borges, etc. Pérez-Reverte's Dumas Club is singled out - at its center this story is about the search for the few surviving copies of a book thought to have been completely destroyed.Manuel Ramoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360072661844419063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-13337755577461278992008-09-12T08:41:00.000-06:002008-09-12T08:41:00.000-06:00here's to fearless librarians and book-savers of a...here's to fearless librarians and book-savers of all kinds. an interesting history. thanks for the review, adding yet another title to my "gotta get this one" list.<BR/><BR/>this put me in mind of the scene in Pérez-Reverte's Sun Over Breda, where Iñigo Balboa helps a frantic man pull volumes from a flaming library. A similar stomach-turning scene comes in a Batman movie with the Joker's crew slicing to ribbons well-known european artworks.<BR/><BR/>mvsmsedanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09527530005391318421noreply@blogger.com