Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this! I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur at that VP, and he made a lasting impression on my heart in such a brief time. I can only imagine how you must feel.
{{hugs}}
~ Carol
More than two years in Europe. That's why the ARC doesn't love me any more.
My hubby donated today, bringing his total donations to a gallon.
Very proud of him.
Bowing to those who know better, and saying as I step aside, that Dumas was paid by the word, and he darn well knew it.
Are you certain that is the word you had in mind? Expurgating a book is to remove material that someone (usually the redactor, or whoever is paying the redactor's salary, or in some cases the redactor's Vision of the Transcendent All) might find objectionable. Thomas Bowdler wasn't a condenser, even if The Reader's Digest might think so.
Not gonna debate terms with you. Took enough courage to simply post here. I suspect most understood what I meant, at the heart of my comment. And if "edited" serves better--or some other word--then slip that in.
Steve Eley wrote:
Yowza. I've never experienced such highs and lows in one book before. It's far too florid and redundant for my modern palate, and I wanted to slap the narrator several times and say "Get on with it!"
And my comment:
My husband, then fiancé, in his Research Librarian of the Universe ways, contrived to purchase for me as a wedding present the complete works of Alexandre Dumas, because he knew how much I liked the man's stories. Alas, he missed that I liked them best expurgated. I have yet to read the yards of gold-leafed, ancient, invaluable late 19th century limited edition matching volumes gracing my bookshelves, and prefer instead to revisit my favorite expurgated translations.
Oh, God, it hurts, because...well, I have a treasure here--I know I do! But...it's so very very very difficult to dig through all the verbosity to get to it.
I do hope you're on the way to feeling better. And I do understand the long and inexplicable struggle, but in different ways.
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