Good article -- well-balanced, which is more than I can say for myself when I encounter the bowdlerisation of classic literature. I wrote about the Bond novels here: https://terryfreedman.substack.com/i/105419998/a-sense-of-entitlement What on earth is the point of erasing the past in this way? By seeing what an obnoxious person Bond was surely helps us appreciate how much progress we've made in our attitudes, and in what is deemed acceptable?
Bradbury's coda at the end of Fahrenheit is spot on.
Good article -- well-balanced, which is more than I can say for myself when I encounter the bowdlerisation of classic literature. I wrote about the Bond novels here: https://terryfreedman.substack.com/i/105419998/a-sense-of-entitlement What on earth is the point of erasing the past in this way? By seeing what an obnoxious person Bond was surely helps us appreciate how much progress we've made in our attitudes, and in what is deemed acceptable?