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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
louisev:
yes, miles and miles and miles!
Bigheart:
--- Quote from: louisev on November 18, 2006, 10:35:08 am ---that'll certain do, June!
Glad I cheered your day. Are you in LONDON?
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Good!
You sure did. Well, not London but close by. I'm with Helen :)
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Bigheart on November 18, 2006, 11:42:47 am ---Good!
You sure did. Well, not London but close by. I'm with Helen :)
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Leslie waves...Hi Helen! Hi June!
louisev:
Update to "The Red Stallion"
http://louisev.livejournal.com/151439.html "Chapter 95: Examinations"
opinionista:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on November 18, 2006, 08:53:38 am ---This is very interesting, but what I don't understand, then, is why she consented to have it published in the New Yorker without the prologue.
I am an Editor in real life, and we edit author's contributions before publication, and of course, they have the opportunity to rebut our changes. I don't work at the New Yorker but I would assume Annie was afforded the same opportunity. If the prologue was so important and essential, why didn't she argue, or argue harder if she did argue, to have included?
The first version of the story I read was the New Yorker version--not in 1997 but last fall when people were starting to talk about the movie after it won at the Venice Film Festival. The New Yorker still had the story online at that time. I read the story, several times, then saw the movie and after that, read the "Story to Screenplay" version of the story, which does have the prologue. I have said many times that I preferred the New Yorker version...precisely because I did not read it as a flashback. Now, reading your post, thinking about the two versions of the story and the movie, I may need to change my entire worldview on BBM. Hmmm....
To your other comment, regarding your bafflement over Jo's comments...I think there are people out there, who despite countless viewings of the movie still see it in only the most superficial way, ie, as a love story between Jack and Ennis. They, for whatever reason, perhaps because it is too painful, seem unable to get to the deeper heart of the matter of what this story is about and what it can teach us. But we are all just human and the story touches us all in different ways.
Leslie
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I'm not sure about this, but it is possible that The New Yorker had less space available for AP's story. They probably depend a lot on ads. Sometimes the number of pages of an edition depends on the amounts of ads they sell before the edition is put together and sold. I know some newspapers work this way. I'm not so sure about the magazines though, but I suspect it might be the same situation.
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