Editors
- From: Brenda Frazier <brenda@[redacted]>
- Subject: Editors
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:11:19 -0600
I understand about editing for clarity and sound. The quoted
editor was talking about works that had been "clean up" and trying to
find early editions that maintain his writing. To me this sounds like
some of the editors had changed not just for clarity but to clean up
the meaning. I also end up putting work aside and going back to it. I
have things in so many different stages of writing. What I don't like
is the idea of "clean up" my work to the point of lost of meaning. Or
the editor giving it his/her meaning. This collection of work made me
think of the talk on this list about annotating works. My study bible
has so many annotations that there sometimes fill half of a page.
They can be about meaning of what is expressed as opposed to facts
(i.e. where the place is located, meaning of the original Hebrew
words). Also the complete works of Samuel Taylor Cooleridge's poems
have two versions of "The Rime of the Ancient Marriner". Even though
the differences are subtle they change what he was expressing. This
is going back to my course in Semantics. The differences in the
similarities and the similarities in the differences.
Brenda
--
If the pen is mightier than the sword and breath gives life to the
word think what we might do as long as we maintain our right to speak
out.