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June 26, 2008
The Thought Controller
Today a U3A (University of the Third Age) group held its regular 'library group' meeting in Gosport Discovery Centre. Each week they discuss books or poetry, read plays out loud or read out original works the members have written. Because the room where they usually hold their meetings was booked out to another (fee-paying) organisation, they were forced to conduct their book-group in the open area of the library, thus doubtless disturbing other customers and in turn being disrupted by customers bellowing into their mobile phones. Before the group left, a librarian stopped one of them and said that there had been a complaint from another customer about the 'racist language' that the group had been overheard to use. The group explained that a discussion about race was hardly surprising: the book they had been discussing was 'The Bookseller of Kabul'.....
Posted by Perkins at June 26, 2008 4:26 PM