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<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 17 April 2007 - Volume 09<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer <
<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Philosophy" 2007.04.16 (04) [E]<br><br><div id="mb_1">
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<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dear Sandy:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject:
L-Lowlands</span></div><span class="q">
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> I suspect scatological
humour is popular everywhere but tends to fall </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> into censorous hands sooner or later.
Look at the brilliant stories in</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> the Arabian Nights such as "The
Historic Fart" which seem to get passed</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> over for all the tedious nonsense
like Aladdin and Sinbad. Or how the </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> satire of the Cadi &c gets retold
in such a way that they don't all piss</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> on each other.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> I wonder which scene will be the
first to be deleted from Borat when the </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> puritans get the upper hand again?
:)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span></div></span>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Bawdlerising (Heh, heh
heh), like the Poor, Death & Taxes, will always be with us.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I have read (before I
knew better), 'sanitised' versions of King Arthur, Grimm, Gulliver &
also 1000 & 1 Nights. Be at ease, the originals have always survived,
from the Golden Ass on the run to Ulysses in Dublin. Mrs Burten did her
damnedest, but her husband's edition, at least, of the Arabian Nights
survived, & as a primary-school kid (the right age, I should think, for
thorough visceral enjoyment), I read even unto the footnotes on the fart. I do
not see how the carpenter's five-tiered cabinet could BE bawdlerised, but
there is always some idiot that will try. Even so, patient search, ask the
kid that I was, will always find the original.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Yrs,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark <br><br>----------<br><br></span>From: <span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Literature" 2007.04.17 (07) [E]<br>
<br><div style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span class="q">> From: Mark Dreyer <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Philosophy" 2007.04.16 (04) [E]<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> I have read (before I knew better), 'sanitised' versions of King
</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> Arthur, Grimm, Gulliver & also 1000 & 1 Nights. Be at ease, the</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
> originals have always survived, from the Golden Ass on the run to</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> Ulysses in Dublin. Mrs Burten did her damnedest, but her husband's
</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> edition, at least, of the Arabian Nights survived, & as a</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
> primary-school kid (the right age, I should think, for thorough</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> visceral enjoyment), I read even unto the footnotes on the fart. I do
</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> not see how the carpenter's five-tiered cabinet could BE bawdlerised,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">
> but there is always some idiot that will try. Even so, patient search,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">> ask the kid that I was, will always find the original.</span><br>
<br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Nothing interesting or remotely satirical happens in the bowdlerised<br>version of The Young Woman and Her Five Lovers.<br><br>Unbowdlerised Grimm makes me shake my head (as usual) at the sort of
<br>things our ancestors called entertainment, just as the fight scene in<br>Borat make me wonder about my peers! But the last thing I would want<br>would be to try to censor things just because they're not to my taste.
<br>The most acceptable form of censorship is one's own eyelids, surely!<br><br>"Bawdlerised" - that's clever!<br></div><span class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">
http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br><br></div></div>
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