>History WILL judge the school boards who are trying to ban Maus, though. Yes teens can get it outside of school but the decision that kids shouldn’t access Maus in school isn’t a neutral decision. The decision is motivated by reluctance to teach a historical genocide from the point of view of survivors and the children of survivors. That’s a stupid reason to ban a book. Maus is a comic book about Jewish mice. It’s not as graphic as the actual holocaust. It’s not an infohazard like idk, Isis Radicalization Weekly, or the Beginner’s Guide to Anthrax.
yes, certainly
on that day, the day of His great ire, after all mortal things have been calcined by the fire, then i, the YAMEN RUNNER, who served HIS HIGHNESS DAVID and HER HOLINESS SIBYL, shall stand up before all the sons and daughters of NABEE ADAM (on Him be the blessings and the peace of Allah) and bid in a loud, angel-trumpet-magnified voice
O! be upstanding my brethren for we are on holy ground! see, my lord HISTORY approacheth the bench to give arraignment of all our secret deeds! Quake! O quake! Oyez! Oyez! In the matter of HISTORY versus YOU, PERSONALLY. The JUDGE is coming!
HISTORY shall approach the bench, clearly a late model JEHOVAH resuscitated centuries ago to be the Judge of the Change at Potsdam where he was given a hasty shave, some dark brown Wohlstand-Brot-und-Schönheit dyestuff liberated from a nearby factory about the remaining visible hair and a tasteful turtleneck in matching brown to hide any Covenantal markings, but no less terrifying for all that
it shall be a long day, a long docket, Brother Listings Clerk dealing with many wretched sinners who wish to get their cases heard first before anyone else, mothers pleading for their wayward sons, cowards hiding in the archive rooms, risking premature annihilation by being pressed inside the mechanical shelving which wheels back and forth as the YAMEN RUNNER of HISTORY comes down to seek and bring out a tatty cabbagelike bundle for the attention of the court and, of my charity, bringing down cool water and words to apologise for the delay.
very often the faults of these timid souls are pathetically minor and it is such a case when finally after [INDETERMINATE ETERNITYLIKE INTERVAL] has passed, CYRUS SCHMUCKER, COMPTROLLER OF PECKER HOLLER COUNTY SCHOOLBOARD is brought before HISTORY
The hearing always begins, overseen as it is by a perfect Judge with such excellent administrative staff, by tracing the sin right back to its origin I REMEMBER ADAM WHO TASTED OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, WHO BEGOT SETH WHO STOOD IN PLACE OF HIS MURDERED BROTHER, WHO BEGOT… the genealogy goes on for some time since HISTORY, you may be sure, knew your father back in the day but eventually reaches… WHO BEGOT MARTIN WHO DRANK TOO MUCH AND COULD NOT KEEP HIS TEMPER, WHO BEGOT CYRUS…
and what did CYRUS do to make him quake so before my lord HISTORY?
CYRUS
CYRUS
CYRUS WHO VOTED IN A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING NOT TO AUTHORISE A PARTICULAR COMIC BOOK FOR USE IN SCHOOL LESSONS ON THE GROUNDS OF ALL THE CUSSING AND WHATNOT NOT BEING THE KIND OF EXAMPLE TO SET TO THESE KIDS I AM SURE WE CAN FIND SOMETHING BETTER
What shall my lord HISTORY do?
HISTORY shall judge CYRUS!
It is the sentence of HISTORY that CYRUS SCHMUCKER SON OF MARTIN, SON OF… (again, my lord HISTORY is mindful of antecedents when proclaiming sentence) along with all his ancestors hall suffer the SECOND AND FINAL DEATH.
YAMEN RUNNER, ERASE THEIR NAMES FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE AND CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE THAT CONSUMETH
this is HISTORY’S inevitable judgment.