greenjudy:

supermauswithagun:

hrefnatheravenqueen:

FUCKING THIS POST ITSELF IS FLAGGED, I’M DYING! @staff YOUR BS IS KILLING ITSELF!!!!

[At the end of the 18th century in Austria] the list of banned books became so long that no censor could remember all of them anymore. So the Austrian censorship bureau made an official catalog of them, and sent it to every censor and every bookshop to warn them. That was the ‘Index et Catalogus Librorum Prohibitorum’. Of course the catalog became extremely popular with the audience, since that was the easiest way to know what books they should order from smugglers and illegal bookshops. There was an amateur librarian in Vienna who decided to make a library only of the books on the Index catalog. As a result banned books became so popular that the smugglers had to raise their prices significantly. Finally even the censorship bureau recognized that they’ve made a huge mistake. But they could’t find a better solution except putting the ‘Index et Catalogus Librorum Prohibitorum’ on the ‘Index et Catalogus Librorum Prohibitorum’.

(Source: Ráth – Végh István: A könyv komédiája / translation by me)

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