Timeline for Why are harmless books in restricted section?
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| Mar 30, 2021 at 7:19 | history | edited | fez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | There's no such thing as a harmless book. "Elsewhere, someone might have said “It’s just books! Books aren’t dangerous!” But even ordinary books are dangerous, and not only the ones like Make Gelignite the Professional Way. A man sits in some museum somewhere and write a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven’t read it are dying because the ones that did haven’t got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why the government often clamps down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber." - Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 13:17 | comment | added | user68762 | @user568458 the one which had the illustration that looked like the plot device valyrian steel dagger? That tome contaied spoilers, that's why it was restricted | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 13:06 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | They weren't even all books about mysterious, magical or mystical things like white walkers, one was a plain old history of how dragonglass was used to decorate weapons... | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:53 | comment | added | user68762 | Maybe those books are rarities, very valuable, that's why the access is restricted. The archmasters may've considered the white walkers a nursemaid tale, so the knowledge how to combat them wasn't first priority for the scribes to transcribe the books by hand, (which is tedious work) but nevertheless ancient knowledge is valuable therefore 2b preserved. Also may be that Name of the Rose fashion they didnt want those books in circulation to avoid rumors and panics about monsters who, in their opinion never existed | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:15 | comment | added | HBhatia | Books related to white walkers may contain the dark ways of creating them. White walkers are more dangerous than wildfire and deadly poisons. | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:15 | answer | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:04 | history | asked | TStancek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |