Quote for the day

“Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?”

-Judge Clayton Horn in ruling that Allen Ginsburg’s poem, Howl, was not legally obscene.

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One Response to Quote for the day

  1. jo says:
    June 23, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
    starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
    …
    who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and
    screamed with joy

    This is worth reading for the full story (don’t want to link to it): Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression by Bill Morgan and Nancy Peters (City Lights)