re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg

The Lottery?

Bloody hell, I remember reading that in 9th grade.

We also read it in the 9th grade (in 1964). We had a super-religious kid in our class who was sophisticated enough to recognize it as an attack on his superstition and complain about it. I can’t remember which mob he belonged to, but they also refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance (which Repugs of course treat as a recent development by Demo-commies). Incidentally, Miles Hyman, whose graphic novel adaptation of “The Lottery” was banned, is the grandson of the story’s author, Shirley Jackson.