I hope you'll start to feel better soon. Murphy's Law - whatever is going to happen will happen at the worst possible time - practically guarantees that one will be sick during the holidays :)
As for your Trek reviewer: I think there's a legitimate creative use for quoting text in new contexts, as it puts a different spin on things and challenges the original. Have you ever read a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, called 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'? It's about a scholar who sets himself the project of rewriting 'Don Quixote' - word for word. And the narrator of the story goes into ecstacy about how phrases from 'Don Quixote' mean much, much more when written by Menard, in his 20th-century environment, than they did when written by Cervantes...
It seems that you have some great writing projects in progress. I hope that you'll be returning to Mirkwood soon, though - Lady Ithilwen is still sitting in the glade, waiting for Legolas to show up and get betrothed to her!
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Re: Two words
Date: 2003-10-19 01:20 pm (UTC)I hope you'll start to feel better soon. Murphy's Law - whatever is going to happen will happen at the worst possible time - practically guarantees that one will be sick during the holidays :)
As for your Trek reviewer: I think there's a legitimate creative use for quoting text in new contexts, as it puts a different spin on things and challenges the original. Have you ever read a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, called 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'? It's about a scholar who sets himself the project of rewriting 'Don Quixote' - word for word. And the narrator of the story goes into ecstacy about how phrases from 'Don Quixote' mean much, much more when written by Menard, in his 20th-century environment, than they did when written by Cervantes...
It seems that you have some great writing projects in progress. I hope that you'll be returning to Mirkwood soon, though - Lady Ithilwen is still sitting in the glade, waiting for Legolas to show up and get betrothed to her!
Gemma