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It's a travesty of literature and scholarship.
I understand the desire to make it more accessible to schools who would otherwise ban it, but still. It's better for it to be banned than be censored this way, as it removes a part the cultural and social legacies that the book reflects. It "whitewashes" it, as it were.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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