Ulysses Cleared of Smut Charges Today — Well, Dec 6, 1933, But Still

Dec 6, 1933, U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene. “In many places it seems to me to be disgusting,” but nothing, he added, had been included in it as “dirt for art’s sake.”

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