Adaptations: Whose story is this anyway?

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[Writelife] Although I posted this about a week ago on The Burble, I decided to repost it here because it's about writing. However, it's not the usual kind of writing I talk about here.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Neilgaiman.com] Neil Gaiman: Ramsey Campbell, Probably is a book for (a) fans of Ramsey's (b) people who want to read interesting and illuminating essays by a working writer about, quite often, the craft, the business and the sheer putting-one-word-after-anotherness of writing as a profession, and/or (c) people who want to read the definitive essay on 1970s and 1980s British spanking films (apparently a whole low-budget genre in itself), or learn the dark truth about Sean Manchester the real-life-Vampire-Hunter (based on Ramsey's hilarious review of both editions of his biography). It's a long book, of the kind you pick up and read an essay in, and then can't find the essay the next time you look, but you discover a terrific polemic about something unexpected and funny, or odd, or disturbing, instead, so don't mind.

[Markshea.blogspot.com] Catholic and Enjoying It!: The silence of the Gospel of Mark is insignificant because Mark mentions no incident in Jesus's life prior to his ministry, and in any case the chronological priority of Mark is merely conjectural. It is true that Matthew and Luke tell different stories (which, pace Hans Kung, does not mean they are "mutually contradictory"), but as the Catholic scholar Raymond Brown has pointed out, when two different stories have a common element -- in this case, the Virgin Birth -- it is not unreasonable to conclude that common element has a claim to historical truth.

[Jamesthornton.com] The New Hacker's Dictionary: As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to support what is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms of distributed computing, but the infant technology of electronic mail quickly grew to dominate actual usage. Universities, research labs and defense contractors early discovered the Internet's potential as a medium of communication between humans and linked up in steadily increasing numbers, connecting together a quirky mix of academics, techies, hippies, SF fans, hackers, and anarchists.

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Posted at June 18, 2005 08:17 PM