Sujet : Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
De : kludge (at) *nospam* panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written alt.usage.englishDate : 20. Feb 2025, 01:40:03
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Paul S Person <
psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
the responsibility of others.
I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and greasy,
but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are told. And I will
never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.
Howard Waldrop's _The Ugly Chickens_ is one of the best SF stories ever
written but is not historically accurate regarding the flavour of dodo.
IOW, this is /not/ "particular about Americans". At least, not when
historical events are listed.
God may have given us dominion over the earth and the seas but that does
not seem to me to be a license to just wreck it all.
--scott
-- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."