[Sca-cooks] OT: How to destroy a book
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 12:42:04 PDT 2010
Suey wrote:
> 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.
If you think works of historical fiction should be destroyed because
they deviate from real history, you're going to be a long time
destroying books. If it bothers you so much, why do you kee reading
historical novels?
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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