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David Frum @davidfrum
From the point of view of an English Protestant of the next generation after Shakespeare, it would be hard to imagine an idea more "harmful" than Purgatory - or that last rites by a priest might somehow mitigate God's judgment. There could be no worse error for human fate! — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Hamlet is written by a man (and for an audience) who still took seriously older Catholic ideas. The murder of Hamlet's father is so "horrible," because he was killed "unhousel'd," ie without a final Eucharist. He faced the fires of Purgatory "all my imperfections upon my head." — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
A PS to the Roald Dahl thread above. Suppose earlier generations rewrote books in hopes of expunging ideas they found "harmful"- EG ... — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @Sean_Speer: I learned a lot this week from our regular bi-weekly conversation with @davidfrum about Mexican President López Obrador's… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
But prissy is as prissy does. And vandalism is vandalism. Some late 21st century DH Lawrence will have a lot of fun at the expense of the fainting couches and hysterical conformity of the early 21st. END — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
I am sure the redactors of Roald Dahl would reject the equation to the Bowdlers (even supposing they have the cultural literacy to recognize their predecessors). The Bowdlers were merely prissy! The neo-Bowdlers are animated by exciting new ideas like stamping out gender! 6/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Some examples — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Details here (behind a pay wall, but worth it) https://t.co/YWrfWfMcv9 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Details here, at @TheTelegraph2 https://t.co/WvGDBCtvqg 5/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Well guess what's back - and with a vengeance? The new owners of the Roald Dahl estate are ambitiously Bowdlerizing his children's books, omitting words (like "fat) and concepts (like "boys and girls") they deem unacceptable to contemporary neo-genteel readers. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The expurgated editions were a commercial success. But to a later generation, "to Bowdlerize" became a catch-phrase for everything prudish and philistine. Later generations of writers defiantly insisted on facing life's realities, even when hard or ugly. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
They edited and published a four-volume edition of Shakespeare with the naughty bits cut out. They even rewrote King Lear to provide a happy ending. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Everything old is new again Have you ever heard of Thomas Bowdler? In the early 19th century, he and his sister Henrietta Maria decided that some of the masterworks of English literature - notably Shakespeare and Gibbon - were too bawdy and otherwise offensive — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @jbarro: “Limb difference community” https://t.co/mV894O73R5 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @BGrueskin: You can’t summarize this story in a tweet, except to say: 1) The president of Stanford University is in deep, deep trouble… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @andrea_shalal: U.S. to warn companies against evading Russia sanctions, big focus on manufactured good, construction, @TreasuryDepSec… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @jonathanchait: I want to correct this misinformation that is circulating. In fact, the story checked for accuracy before publication, a… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Dozens of people who believed what they saw on Fox are headed to prison for long sentences as a result. I wonder how they feel now that it's confirmed that Fox knowingly and intentionally deceived them, in part - as one host wrote - to boost Fox's stock price. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Hundreds of emails and texts from inside a major media corporation confirm that its executives and major hosts knowingly deceived their viewers - a deception that incited a mob to attack the US Congress and try to overturn a presidential election. Kind of a big media deal? But no — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
So many right-wing and Intellectual Dark Web "media critics" must have started the long weekend 36 hours early. Hard to understand otherwise why they've fallen silent about the worst media scandal in recent history, Fox's confessed deception of its viewers about the 2020 election — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @JimSwiftDC: .@davidfrum joins @SykesCharlie on the pod: The GOP’s Obnoxiousness Problem https://t.co/XjYt4bwEp8 via @BulwarkOnline — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @BGrueskin: From another WSJ alum (and this one has a Pulitzer to his name) https://t.co/2RpLnScz5Y — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @SarahLongwell25: Fox News benefits from a general awareness that the hosts and folks on the biz side don’t really believe the insane th… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @MurphyAJC: A blockbuster from @jsalzerajc & @bluestein: Georgia GOP paid $220k last year to bankroll the legal fees of fake electors fo… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @LeaderMcConnell: Proud to take the case for an even stronger trans-Atlantic alliance directly to our allies today @MunSecConf. My full… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @DorchesterRev: The very positive trend in paid subscribers continues since Christmas! Thank you, readers, and please do spread the wor… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @AnnieGrayerCNN: Buried in the Dominion filing: Donald Trump dialed into Lou Dobbs’ show on 1/6 trying to get on air but Fox would not l… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @SykesCharlie: Because you need to know. On today's @BulwarkOnline podcast, @davidfrum and I will discuss the Austen Powers Swedish pe… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @Sean_Speer: New episode of @TheHubCanada's bi-weekly series, Frum Dialogues, with @davidfrum is out. We discuss recent political deve… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @AP: The U.S. has finished efforts to recover the remnants of the large balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and… — PolitiTweet.org
