Sunday, July 26, 2009

Moveable Feast 2: Grandma's not that bad

Chip Hemingway, or whatever Ernest's nephew's name is, has decided to publish a new edition of A Moveable Feast with changes to the text to make his grandma seem nicer.

That's evil. And what's most evil is that he's supposed to protect his uncle's copyright. Someone should sue him to not print an altered version of the book. But the person who has the authority to sue? Him.

Particularly in the age of blog comments, he should just suck it up. If he doesn't like what Ernest Hemingway wrote about his grandma, he should write his own book about how great a lady she was. Changing a book someone else wrote? Deeply wrong.

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