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o Re: "Edited for the Modern Reader"Michael Adler

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 by: Michael Adler - Sat, 2 Jul 2022 18:50 UTC

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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