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mrissa's journal, the infamous last five pages of Silver on the Tree came up. These, as she says, are Not Canon. They don't belong in the book, and we pretend they don't exist. Despite having been written by the same author as the (very good) rest of the series.
So, topic for today: Give other examples where material written by the original author is, nonetheless, anathema to the rest of the work it is part of, and discuss how this can happen - what is it about this material that makes it anathema, not just a spate of bad writing. It seems to me a distinct phenomenon from cases where the writing quality deteriorates linearly through a long series.
mrissa's journal, the infamous last five pages of Silver on the Tree came up. These, as she says, are Not Canon. They don't belong in the book, and we pretend they don't exist. Despite having been written by the same author as the (very good) rest of the series.So, topic for today: Give other examples where material written by the original author is, nonetheless, anathema to the rest of the work it is part of, and discuss how this can happen - what is it about this material that makes it anathema, not just a spate of bad writing. It seems to me a distinct phenomenon from cases where the writing quality deteriorates linearly through a long series.
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Date: 2007-05-20 11:20 am (UTC)