Politically Correct Bullshit Alert!

[elfs]

From the New York Times:

In a newly revised edition of Goodnight Moon, a book which has lulled children to sleep for nearly 60 years, the publisher, HarperCollins, has digitally altered the photograph of Clement Hurd, the illustrator, to remove a cigarette from his hand.

Comments

Well...

[(Anonymous)]

at least they haven't revised Magritte's "Betrayal of Images" to be an empty picture...

Joshua Sasmor

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[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

This is not a pipe: |

Re: Well...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

"And indeed, this is not a pipe. This is a painting of a pipe. Right? Well, actually that's wrong. This is not a painting of a pipe, this is a drawing of a painting of a pipe. N'est-ce pas? Nope, wrong again. It's a printed copy of a drawing of a painting of a pipe. Ten copies, actually. Six, if you fold back the pages. Do you hear what I've saying? If you do, have your ears checked, because no one said a word." (Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics)

And I've just reproduced a paragraph where McCloud discussing the implications of looking at printed copies of a drawing of a painting of a pipe. Oy, vey!