Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:23:35 +0000 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Brilliant, Terry!! I'm sure MT would approve heartily!
Ben Wise
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Ballard" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2011 11:01:55 AM
Subject: Re: a new Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I'm not a Twain scholar either - just a Twain enthusiast. Looking over the =
messages from the past few days, I can't help but wonder what Twain would s=
ay if we could magically transport him to our world. May it would go someth=
ing like this:
"I see that Professor Gribben has succeeded in improving my book so that pe=
ople will not be offended when they read it. I will grant that the professo=
r did this project with the best of intentions - just as the Good Lord did =
when he created black widow spiders, electric eels, cobras, mosquitoes and =
the Human Race. The professor thinks that the Human Race has evolved into s=
omething more genteel than what we had in the 19th century. If he feels tha=
t way, he should spend some time watching the news. If your modern humans m=
ust be protected from my book, who is to protect them from seeing the misad=
ventures of Mel Gibson and Lindsey Lohan? What a world you have created her=
e - it goes far beyond anything I could have ever predicted, but it must be=
protected. Congress should pass laws. People should Tweet about this. Look=
around you - America needs me more than ever. Today's youth can read Huck =
Lite and come away with the idea that slavery was a darned bad thing and we=
were better off without it. Maybe that's enough for a nation where 50 perc=
ent of the population believes that the world is six thousand years old in =
the face of all scientific knowledge to the contrary. I must go now - I'm c=
atching up on American Idol."
Terry Ballard
Assistant Director of Technical Services for Library Systems
New York Law School, Mendik Library
185 W. Broadway
New York, NY, 10013
Telephone: 212-431-2106
Web: www.terryballard.org
Blog: librariansonedge.blogspot.com
Tweets: twitter.com/terryballard
|
|
|