Mon 4 May 2009
Erasmus Erasure
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How beautiful
Oh, dreadful censorship of Erasmus, the great humanist (or so I’m told). And yet, how beautiful! How the lines which redact his text also obliterate his image, leave him blind in one eye. Yet, is not the entire Index Librorum Prohibitorum (in which this is housed) a kind of blindness? Is this not calling our attention to the very violence done by censorship? As if the censor is demonstrating that very line of Erasmus: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!
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