• Re: "Edited for the Modern Reader"

    From Michael Adler@21:1/5 to Dan Clore on Sat Jul 2 11:50:32 2022
    On Friday, April 4, 2008 at 1:40:18 AM UTC-4, Dan Clore wrote:
    I recently purchased a volume purporting to contain three novels by
    George MacDonald. They turned out to be "edited for today's reader". Out
    of curiosity, I checked a sample passage that caught my interest against
    the original text via Google Books. Here is the result:
    Thomas Wingfold, Curate
    pp. 226-27
    From a sad accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with something of the influences of a certain baneful drug, to the use of
    which one of his attendants was addicted, and now at college, partly
    from curiosity, partly from a desire to undergo its effects, but chiefly
    in order to escape from ever-gnawing and passionate thought, he began to make _experiments_ in its use. Experiment called for repetition--in
    order to verification, said the fiend,--and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing
    itself; so that, by the time of which my narrative treats, he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use, and in imminent peril of having to pass the rest of his life in alternations of ecstasy and agony, divided
    by dull spaces of misery, the ecstasies growing rarer and rarer, and the agonies more and more frequent, intense and lasting; until at length the dethroned Apollo found himself chained to a pillar of his own ruined
    temple, which the sirocco was fast filling with desert sand.
    Retitled and "edited for today's reader":
    The Curate of Glaston
    pp. 60-61
    From a tragic accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with
    the influences of a certain baneful drug, to which one of his Indian attendants was addicted. Now at college, partly from curiosity but
    chiefly to escape from gnawing and passionate thought about Emmeline, he began to experiment with it. Experiment called for repetition, and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing itself. By the time of my narrative he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use.
    *****
    I open the field for comment as to what this implies about "today's reader". --
    Dan Clore
    My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
    http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
    Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
    http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
    News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
    "Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
    zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
    not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
    Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
    and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
    night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
    &c., &c.,"
    -- The Book of Dzyan.

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  • From Michael Adler@21:1/5 to Dan Clore on Sat Jul 2 11:53:49 2022
    On Friday, April 4, 2008 at 1:40:18 AM UTC-4, Dan Clore wrote:
    I recently purchased a volume purporting to contain three novels by
    George MacDonald. They turned out to be "edited for today's reader". Out
    of curiosity, I checked a sample passage that caught my interest against
    the original text via Google Books. Here is the result:
    Thomas Wingfold, Curate
    pp. 226-27
    From a sad accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with something of the influences of a certain baneful drug, to the use of
    which one of his attendants was addicted, and now at college, partly
    from curiosity, partly from a desire to undergo its effects, but chiefly
    in order to escape from ever-gnawing and passionate thought, he began to make _experiments_ in its use. Experiment called for repetition--in
    order to verification, said the fiend,--and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing
    itself; so that, by the time of which my narrative treats, he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use, and in imminent peril of having to pass the rest of his life in alternations of ecstasy and agony, divided
    by dull spaces of misery, the ecstasies growing rarer and rarer, and the agonies more and more frequent, intense and lasting; until at length the dethroned Apollo found himself chained to a pillar of his own ruined
    temple, which the sirocco was fast filling with desert sand.
    Retitled and "edited for today's reader":
    The Curate of Glaston
    pp. 60-61
    From a tragic accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with
    the influences of a certain baneful drug, to which one of his Indian attendants was addicted. Now at college, partly from curiosity but
    chiefly to escape from gnawing and passionate thought about Emmeline, he began to experiment with it. Experiment called for repetition, and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing itself. By the time of my narrative he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use.
    *****
    I open the field for comment as to what this implies about "today's reader". --
    Dan Clore
    My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
    http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
    Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
    http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
    News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
    "Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
    zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
    not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
    Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
    and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
    night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
    &c., &c.,"
    -- The Book of Dzyan.


    IF ANYONE HAS FOUND A WAY TO BLOCK SEARCHES TO BOOKS "Edited for the Modern Reader" . . . PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DO THAT! It is an outrageous consequence of living in an increasingly illiterate society!

    Thank you!

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  • From Jeffrey Rubard@21:1/5 to Michael Adler on Sat Jul 16 17:08:57 2022
    On Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 11:53:51 AM UTC-7, Michael Adler wrote:
    On Friday, April 4, 2008 at 1:40:18 AM UTC-4, Dan Clore wrote:
    I recently purchased a volume purporting to contain three novels by
    George MacDonald. They turned out to be "edited for today's reader". Out of curiosity, I checked a sample passage that caught my interest against the original text via Google Books. Here is the result:
    Thomas Wingfold, Curate
    pp. 226-27
    From a sad accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with something of the influences of a certain baneful drug, to the use of
    which one of his attendants was addicted, and now at college, partly
    from curiosity, partly from a desire to undergo its effects, but chiefly in order to escape from ever-gnawing and passionate thought, he began to make _experiments_ in its use. Experiment called for repetition--in
    order to verification, said the fiend,--and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing itself; so that, by the time of which my narrative treats, he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use, and in imminent peril of having to pass the rest of his life in alternations of ecstasy and agony, divided
    by dull spaces of misery, the ecstasies growing rarer and rarer, and the agonies more and more frequent, intense and lasting; until at length the dethroned Apollo found himself chained to a pillar of his own ruined temple, which the sirocco was fast filling with desert sand.
    Retitled and "edited for today's reader":
    The Curate of Glaston
    pp. 60-61
    From a tragic accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with
    the influences of a certain baneful drug, to which one of his Indian attendants was addicted. Now at college, partly from curiosity but
    chiefly to escape from gnawing and passionate thought about Emmeline, he began to experiment with it. Experiment called for repetition, and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing itself. By the time of my narrative he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use.
    *****
    I open the field for comment as to what this implies about "today's reader".
    --
    Dan Clore
    My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_: http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
    Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
    http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
    News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
    "Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
    zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
    not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
    Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
    and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
    night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
    &c., &c.,"
    -- The Book of Dzyan.
    IF ANYONE HAS FOUND A WAY TO BLOCK SEARCHES TO BOOKS "Edited for the Modern Reader" . . . PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DO THAT! It is an outrageous consequence of living in an increasingly illiterate society!

    Thank you!

    This seems like "obscurantism".

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  • From Jeffrey Rubard@21:1/5 to Jeffrey Rubard on Wed Jul 20 12:22:52 2022
    On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 5:08:58 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
    On Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 11:53:51 AM UTC-7, Michael Adler wrote:
    On Friday, April 4, 2008 at 1:40:18 AM UTC-4, Dan Clore wrote:
    I recently purchased a volume purporting to contain three novels by George MacDonald. They turned out to be "edited for today's reader". Out of curiosity, I checked a sample passage that caught my interest against the original text via Google Books. Here is the result:
    Thomas Wingfold, Curate
    pp. 226-27
    From a sad accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with something of the influences of a certain baneful drug, to the use of which one of his attendants was addicted, and now at college, partly from curiosity, partly from a desire to undergo its effects, but chiefly in order to escape from ever-gnawing and passionate thought, he began to make _experiments_ in its use. Experiment called for repetition--in order to verification, said the fiend,--and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing itself; so that, by the time of which my narrative treats, he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use, and in imminent peril of having to pass the rest of his life in alternations of ecstasy and agony, divided by dull spaces of misery, the ecstasies growing rarer and rarer, and the agonies more and more frequent, intense and lasting; until at length the dethroned Apollo found himself chained to a pillar of his own ruined temple, which the sirocco was fast filling with desert sand.
    Retitled and "edited for today's reader":
    The Curate of Glaston
    pp. 60-61
    From a tragic accident of his childhood, he had become acquainted with the influences of a certain baneful drug, to which one of his Indian attendants was addicted. Now at college, partly from curiosity but chiefly to escape from gnawing and passionate thought about Emmeline, he began to experiment with it. Experiment called for repetition, and repetition led first to a longing after its effects, and next to a mad appetite for the thing itself. By the time of my narrative he was on the verge of absolute slavery to its use.
    *****
    I open the field for comment as to what this implies about "today's reader".
    --
    Dan Clore
    My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_: http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
    Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
    http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
    News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
    "Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
    zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
    not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
    Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
    and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
    night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
    &c., &c.,"
    -- The Book of Dzyan.
    IF ANYONE HAS FOUND A WAY TO BLOCK SEARCHES TO BOOKS "Edited for the Modern Reader" . . . PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DO THAT! It is an outrageous consequence of living in an increasingly illiterate society!

    Thank you!
    This seems like "obscurantism".

    "It's a trick, actually."
    I guess?

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