I think the original quote came from the Bastard Operator from Hell.

My then-boyfriend discovered me reading William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and exclaimed, "You're reading the forbidden literature!"

Forbidden, because Shirer's views on the historical inevitability of Nazism were questionable even at a time when Sonderweg was accepted historiography, and because, as a journalist, he never maintained the objectivity required in academia. Forbidden, also, because Shirer was one of the 20th-century historian's guilty pleasures, and rank novices such as myself were not permitted to discover him without first being told how unacceptable he was.

"Forbidden Literature" means many things to me; banned books qualify, obviously, but there's a great ill-defined category of things one ought not to look at. Books one ought not to read, movies one ought not to see, subjects one ought not to discuss.

All, of course, the most interesting topics available.

I've created this blog partly for certain projects I have in mind, and partly as a place where I can talk about various things in my own uninformed way without unduly burdening my LiveJournal friends list. It will, at least, be of interest to those who enjoy watching other people get annoyed.