Classic Books Re-packaged

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Thanatoids!
I don't get it, what's the appeal of reading a crippled text? I mean  
it's one thing if Hawking himself wants to make some changes in a  
scientific book or if after fifty years someone attempts a new  
translation of Tolstoy, but to deliberatly destroy an artistic  text  
that was originally written in English? Moby Dick? I'm not familiar  
with copyright laws, but I can't imagine that a living author like  
Pynchon is damned to sit and watch helplessly. Or maybe this is the  
beginning of newspeak after all


Am 13.09.2005 um 12:56 schrieb Ya Sam:

> Hardly a representative of that generation may appear on the P- 
> list.  I did not mean simply the contemporaries of Beavis and  
> Butthead, but rather those whose values these characters appear to  
> epitomise: munching popcorn before TV screen and occasionally  
> leafing through a comic book, that looks more like  Beavis and  
> Butthead generation to me.
>
>
>
>> From: moishe lichtfuss <moishe.lichtfuss at demusement.com>
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: Classic Books Re-packaged
>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:15:30 +0200
>>
>> Beavis and Butthead generation?...i think that includes me...
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2005, at 21:39 Uhr, Ya Sam wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Tolstoy cannot defend his masterpiece from this blasphemous   
>>> tinkering, although  he must be turning in his grave,  but I  
>>> wonder  how could TRP agree to this recycling of GR that would  
>>> turn it into  a simplified reading matter of Beavis and Butthead  
>>> generation...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Expletive Deleted <glennfuller at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> Reply-To: glennfuller at sbcglobal.net
>>>> To: kelber at mindspring.com
>>>> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Classic Books Re-packaged
>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:04:22 -0700
>>>>
>>>> kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Rumor has it that the repackaged GR will come with a bonus CD  
>>>>> of  Elton John's "Rocket Man" for readers to listen to if they  
>>>>> get  bored.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>>>> Sent: Sep 12, 2005 12:58 PM
>>>>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>>> Subject: Classic Books Re-packaged
>>>>>
>>>>> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/ 
>>>>> 0,6903,1567256,00.html
>>>>>  Other classic books which might find themselves repackaged in   
>>>>> the future are Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Clarissa by  
>>>>> Samuel  Richardson, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and  
>>>>> Underworld by  Don DeLillo.
>>>>>
>>>>> not exactly sure what this means but I, for one, am appalled
>>>>>
>>>>> Rich
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> EJ' still on vocals rocketman, w/ piano replaced   with a Kazoo   
>>>> ensemble?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>> check out demusement.com
>> (one of those fine sites)
>>
>>
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