Yes, authors are allowed to edit their own work. Or were you trying to make a different point?
We’re talking about posthumous edits, and especially those that significantly alter the meaning or rhetorical impact of the text.
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You seem confused. The article references both Fleming’s own edits and the edits made later by other people. These are not the same thing, despite your misleading framing of Fleming being on team “edits are fine.” Of course Fleming’s own edits are fine.
our best course of action was to follow Ian’s lead
I wrote poorly, but I follow.
Think about how much more mentally fucked we would all be if not for one of the top 3 most efficient plot devices of all time, the single knockout blow. Klingon Jesus even used it.
How does this quote lead to:
also Bond is goddamn hypocrite with his goddamn martinis
I wonder if the passage with “I spied some black guy jaywalking over towards me. He was sporting cornrows…doing a threatening gangsta strut” has been edited?
Jane Austen didn’t publish first drafts, she made edits. So it was our responsibility as her heirs to make a lot of money by following her lead and make a few edits to publish Pride and Prejudice and Zombies written by Jane Austen. That’s just logic.
Not sure I want to know what the modern day equivalent of John Waters is. That Flying lotus film might be it, haven’t watched.
There’s some modern day horror stuff I’ve heard of that made me sad to be a human.
what if that one was pre-approved?
also it’s hilarious that the entire world is familiar with Fleming through derivatives of his works, the movies licensed by the company holding copyright, rather than his texts. and he was fine with it, by all accounts. even the texts were already edited during and after his lifetime. yet out of an abundance of caution the publisher is going to clearly state that the new edition is in fact edited. isn’t that what y’all wanted?
Each book will carry the disclaimer, “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace. A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set,” The Telegraph said.
really seems that the artistic integrity police today is a party with no standing at all on the issue, should be awarded no grievance, and we should spend time pointing out the millions of ways ALL ART is edited and contextualized by the audiences. yeah edits are subjective, and inevitable.
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