On Mar 1, 2008, at 11:03 AM, authfriend wrote:
When you collect reminiscences--spontaneous or
solicited--of someone who has died as a kind of
memorial, you typically only *want* positive ones,
but it's not because you're trying to preserve
some "fragile myth" of the person's perfection.
And you honestly don't think that's the situation in this case--that,
along with compiling some nice memories, there isn't a whole lot of
mood-making going on? Come on, Judy.
If you were writing a supposedly historically
accurate and objective biography, in contrast,
and collected only positive reminiscences, *then*
that accusation would make sense.
And I thought Curtis's was hilarious.
Yes, it was. It was his mockery of the people
who are compiling the MMY reminiscences, as if
there was something weird about what they were
doing, that was out of line.
Yeah, I would categorize lecturing intelligent adults on what they
can and can't write for inclusion, as coming under the category of
"weird," for sure. Unbalanced, as well, but what else is new.
Sal
