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In Reply to: Re: First edition in English was a hardback and not "abridged" posted by patrickU on May 28, 2004 at 05:24:03:
You never know... sometimes editing makes the work better - if it is done for that reason.I remember one interesting example. Bulgakov's Master and Margarita was published in one of Soviet magazines (don't recall which one), and of course everyone talked about how butchered it was.
The copy we got from someone had all the deletions inserted - typed on cigarette paper - the favorite media of the Samizdat at the time.
We spent a lot of time comparing the short and the long versions of the text, and came to the conclusion that number one the deletions were not of political nature, and number two - they didn't hurt the original, did not change the flow noticeably.
Of course one should not extrapolate such things. But I have expressed the opinion before that if the Pulp Fiction was cut to forty minutes, it would become a better movie.
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Artist I have less problem..( Everybody knows that people artists or not can be whores ) But definitively cutting without their conscent!
I think that Luis did not know..Maybe his estate? His mistress, legally speaking.....
Anyway like at the end of the Holy Word...Wo who....
Imagine the Venus de Milo.....with two arms? what that was the will of the artist..Hehehe...
History of art is strange thing. Speaking of armless Venus... I once visited the studio of a sculptor who was sitting there staring at the wax model of a nude female figure he had just made. He was not quite satisfied, so he took a knife and started whacking at it, getting ready to recycle the wax.As I watched it, suddenly it hit me - he struck a nice form without realizing it... I yelled at him to stop and asked to make bronze statue out of that wax figure - he did and I have it, it is quite interesting as it is, gutted, with no arms, no face, but its Greek hairdo still intact - I think the guy exceeded the surrealistic hight of Dali without even noticing it.
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