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Suddenly all the shapes that were moving in the darkness came together to make a single obscene image which dominated the whole room. And the song was over. —C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
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"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [of "obscene material"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
—Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion, Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), emphasis added
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As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense, |
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