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To: Bash
From: Crecente
Re: Little Help Finding a Nice Chair for Sitting?
Having something you really pour your heart and soul into edited can be a real bitch, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about Ash. We typically only write non-fiction and even that can be painful to have heavily edited. But can you imagine what it must be like for those who write fiction. I don't know how well I'd cope.
George Bernard Shaw, apparently, was super touchy about people reimagining his stuff. After he wrote Pygmalion (My Fair Lady to the uninitiated) with its not so happy ending people kept reworking it to make it a happy ending, or at least a happier one. It was such a problem (at least to Shaw) that he actually wrote a whole an entire essay explaining why the play couldn't end happily. And by essay I mean, essentially, a lengthy and painfully detailed afterward that minutely describes why Liza and Higgins are doomed to be single or unhappy.
It starts out with this charmer: "The rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-makes and each-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings" to misfit all stories."
Wow, he would have made one hell of a blogger.
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