[Sca-cooks] OT: How to destroy a book
Suey
lordhunt at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 11:54:13 PDT 2010
Many of my friends think it a sin to destroy a book. I think this is
correct in reference to Inquisitions but not in reference to authors who
change history for their "history." For example Nacho Ares' book "El
Retracto" (The Portrait) contains numerous historical events changed to
suit his cowboy moving novel, such as Christopher Marlowe killed Alvaro
Bazan, the captain general of the Invincible Armada, who in fact died of
syphilis when in port in Lisbon before the fleet took off for England.
Then his classmate at Cambridge, Robert Cecil, was in his father's
governmental position ten years before the fact and instead of being a
spy for the same service as Marlowe, he acts as a counter spy revealing
Marlow's movements in Spain and France to Madrid. It really gets me how
history is deformed to accommodate the author's script. I think it a sin
not to destroy this text.
Suey
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