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greygirlbeast

"In Our Bedroom After The War"

Mar 02, 2012 18:23

I'm having a spectacularly shitty day, during which nothing much work-wise has been accomplished. Maybe I can at least make a LiveJournal entry. Maybe. We'll see.

1. An ARC for Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart has now been added to our current (to pay back Spooky's Mom for the iMac loan) eBay auctions. These reached me day before yesterday. ( Read more... )

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sovay March 3 2012, 07:58:33 UTC

The platypus and dodo call this incentive for those who've not subscribed.

I am quite intrigued by that.

Looking out my office window at the maybe-not-snowy sky. View to the southwest.

That's a good still life.

I hope the day improved as it disappeared.

iterum March 3 2012, 19:34:24 UTC

the "release party" for The Drowning Girl: A Memoir will occur Tuesday

Curse the work-related meeting I must attend. If it somehow ends mercifully early and I can put my car anywhere near Thayer, I might be able to make it.

ulffriend March 4 2012, 20:15:51 UTC

Although it was nowhere near as egregious as the editing of "Huckleberry Finn", I was surprised to pick up a new copy of one of my childhood favorites, "The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle" and flip through to find that Bumpo is turned into a lion. This change was made, apparently, because "it had no significant impact on the story and removed material that may be offensive to some readers."

I've also read of some libraries removing some of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books because they use the term "darkie".

As you say, these books were written at a point in time. You can't un-happen history by erasing the parts of it you don't like...or frighteningly, if you wait long engough after the erasure, perhaps you can...