There's discussion of editing offensive language from works such as Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer. Opinions on this practice? Do you think novels would suffer or benefit from edits?
Stupid move. Books like that force us to think about our own lives. I'll rip the line from NYT: "What makes Huckleberry Finn so important in American literature isn't just the story, it's the richness, the detail, the unprecedented accuracy of its spoken language. There is no way to 'clean up' Twain without doing irreparable harm to the truth of his work."
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