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These stories do appear to be censored for modern day sensibilities. You might want to mention that at the top of stories where words were truncated or removed,
by Freak_NL 3y ago
These stories do appear to be censored for modern day sensibilities. You might want to mention that at the top of stories where words were truncated or removed, like in:
https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/aepyornis-island https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/aepyornis...
(Gutenberg provides this H.G. Wells story verbatim: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11870/pg11870-images.html#link2H_4_0007 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11870/pg11870-images.html#l... )
My advice: content warnings should suffice. Let readers experience these stories as they were written, and limit any modern commentary to annotations. We must not erase history, only provide guidance.
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- HerveyDeyo 3y agoFor now I'll add a mention that the slurs are lined out. And I'll consider changing the texts back.
- techer 3y agoor perhaps offer both versions. Thank you for this library.
- growingkittens 3y agoIf you display both versions of the text: it might be helpful to add links to contextual resources, such as the origins of a slur and the historical setting of the writing.
- HerveyDeyo 3y agoIt's only one word that I have lined out, and 90% of the stories containing this word are written by two authors, H. G. Wells and H. P. Lovecraft. So it doesn't need much context. Believe me, those two make it obvious what they mean when they use the word. *And 50% of the uses of the word occur in one single story "The Rats in the Walls"
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]