Saturday, January 08, 2011

Moment of Silence for Pigmeat Markham

Nude Descending an Escalator on Horseback, 1986 watercolor, after Marcel Duchamp


Stories have been told and retold through out history. Some stories are so old, we don't know who wrote them. Retelling someone else's stories is a time honored tradition across all sorts of media. Cream retold Robert Johnson's Crossroads. Maybe it's Robert Johnson's story, maybe it's something he heard from someone else, I don't know. Lynyrd Skynyrd retold Cream's retelling of Robert Johnson's Crossroads, and so on.




The movie makers do it all the time with writers like Shakespeare and Dickens. How many different versions of A Christmas Carol have you seen? Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol, Bill Murray's Scrooged, George C Scott, Henry Winkler!

I've been known to retell a story or two myself.

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So, if you want to change a bunch of words in Huck Finn, (go to the 9 minute mark for the HF segment) go right ahead. Just don't call it Huck Finn by Mark Twain.

And now, join me in a Moment of Silence for Pigmeat Markham. Hat tip to BDR for the link way back when.

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