Subject: Re: Digression of sorts . . .
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 01:28:37 GMT
I read that crap about what those damned fools want to do with the Narnia
chronicles and I wanted to puke. Wankers! The whole story is Christian
symbolism! They want to write more stories, too, to "fill in the gaps."
Idiocy!
The Cubs- they're ok, but there's a little team in the Great Northwest that
has first dibs on "it all" this year, toots. Sorry. But hey, you've waited
this long, what's a couple more years? Besides, they want to extend the
bleachers and block the rooftop views. More Wankers!
Andy Mojo
From: Cecilia Baader <ceciliabaader@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Digression of sorts . . .
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:01:12 -0700 (PDT)
Several things in recent days have led me to wonder if the end of the
world is nigh, from a recent outbreak of bad punctuation on the part of
certain listmembers to the realization that it is the All-Star Break and
the Chicago Cubs are still in first place to the following:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/587393.asp
To sum it up for those who don't want to switch back and forth, novelist
Andrew Greeley discusses the recent announcement by HarperCollins that
they plan to reissue C.S. Lewis' classic series The Chronicles of Narnia
amidst great brouhaha in an effort to trade upon the success of the
Harry Potter series. We're talking action figures of Peter, Susan,
Edmund, and Lucy, folks, not to mention old Aslan.
Where's the rub? They plan to edit the books to take out the religious
content, to make them more marketable for the general populace.
Okay, so perhaps we're not talking the end of the world here, but on
this, the fiftieth anniversary of the tenth most banned book (according
to a list published last year by the American Library Association) of
the last century, I find it interesting that such stories are becoming
more common than not.
I thought I'd put the question to the group: what do you think the
implications of this move will be? Is this censorship as Greeley
suggests, or just a good marketing move on the publisher's part? When
does a novel become something other than what it was when edited so
completely?
Or, to phrase this differently, suppose Salinger was no longer around
and none of his descendents cared to protect the purity of his original
work and they published another version of The Catcher in the Rye that
had all mention of hookers and the word f*ck edited out of it?
Would you be more interested in getting the work read by the groups that
scorn it so they can see it (mostly) for what it is, or would you prefer
that it be left precisely as written and to heck with those who
disagreed with it in principle?
Regards,
Cecilia.
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