Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > i admit i don't understand this. and i confess to having loved those books as > a kid, and i was frankly growing up in a kind of dysfunctional shire i was > desperate to get out of. but even if accept moorcock's understanding ..., > doesn't it just go to show that stories take on lives of their own? > especially when they are such sweeping works. they become about whatever the > people reading them want them to be, and that is to my mind less a question > of misreading than of the malleability of the material.<
this is another reason why I can't take criticism of Baum very seriously: in practice, the content of his books depends on who's reading them. It's like that book "the Education of Little Tree" (I think that's its name). The author seems to have been a horrible person (a neoNazi or something like that) but the book produced a pleasant children's movie. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
