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Twenty years ago, in a bookstore, a man cleared a shelf with one sentence.

He was a friend of the author, and he was proud. At the counter of a Mormon bookstore he mentioned the stake president, and a week later the Goosebumps display was gone and the owner was cold. No committee met. No order came down. The store's best-selling line, the one the owner said was keeping the store alive, vanished because one man wanted the feeling that errand gave him.

The Censor Keeps a Copy takes that afternoon apart and names the machinery inside it: the forensic high of a won case, conscience money paid in two paperbacks, the borrowed committee whose larger name did the seizing. Then it follows the same instruments through four centuries of the record: Plato's nursery and Aristotle's answer, the Parliament that abolished Christmas, Comstock's Chamber of Horrors, the locked shelves of the Enfer, the Lord Chamberlain's blue pencil at two guineas a play, the boys of Florence carrying mirrors to the bonfire, the doctor who read the comics, the Filthy Fifteen, and the school-board form with its blank line asking whether the challenger examined the material in its entirety.

The finding underneath is structural. To rule on a book you must read the book, so every regime of taking builds a library of what it forbids and licenses one class of reader to use it. The censor keeps a copy. The exemption cannot be designed out, and it corrupts everyone it touches: the vice agent counting his suicides, the gentlest lady who ever cut a bawdy line, the machine that now rates everything and reads nothing.

Built on a verification register of 192 logged sources, with a glossary, an index, and questions for discussion, this is the field guide for anyone who has watched a shelf go empty at a school, a library, or a store, and wanted the whole pattern named.

The pleasure of taking is the product. The removal is the receipt.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: The Censor Keeps a Copy
• Podnázev: A History of the Pleasure of Taking Things Away
• Autor: David Boles
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 262
• EAN: 9798171388614
• ID: 53740494
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 308 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Datum vydání: 02. September 2026

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