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Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
(www.theguardian.com)
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A lot of books do irritate modern day readers, to say the least, and they need to contain no arsenic for that. Words are more than enough.
What would be the name for a quickly spreading allergy to words?
Conservativism?
If only ;)
Alas, I see that allergy spreading absolutely everywhere and more and more people calling on book (and author) banning for whatever 'good' reason they may have. That's a dangerous allergy, akin to the allergy to the 'other', that may very well be fatal to any democracy no matter the political side one stands for.