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Re: Hidden Treasures: The Manuscripts of "Twenty Thousand Leagues"

From: thomas mccormick <tom_amity~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:55:50 +0000
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

"projects" consuming taxpayers' money regularly consume millions
of dollars
- so you'd think a little could be diverted to something useful
like that.
Perhaps in time for 2028 ... ?

You would think so. After all, they can put a man on the moon. The
problematic factor is "when". eventually the question of what an author
really meant to say, and was prevented by force majeure from saying, becomes
overwhelmingly important, or not important, depending on the degree of
scholarly interest in the author. In Verne's case, of course, the interest
is accelerating, but how does one forecast? A lot of things can happen
between now and 2028!



>From: "wbutcher" <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com>
>Reply-To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>Subject: Re: Hidden Treasures: The Manuscripts of "Twenty Thousand Leagues"
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:42:05 +0800
>
>Parallel texts is what they often do for authors in the literary canon. But
>... unpublished works by dead authors are still in copyright; publishers
>might not be too keen; and I did try employing native speakers to
>transcribe
>the MSS - the easy parts, in copperplate and not crossed out - and they
>couldn't begin to decipher them!
>
>Most of the MSS will, sooner or later, be published online
>(http://www.arkhenum.fr/bm_nantes/jules_verne/_app_php_mysql/ms/recherche_al
>pha_cles.php) so transcriptions will eventually emerge. University research
>"projects" consuming taxpayers' money regularly consume millions of dollars
>- so you'd think a little could be diverted to something useful like that.
>Perhaps in time for 2028 ... ?
>
>Bill
>wbutcher~at~netvigator.com
>http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/
>1/F, 46A, Lung Mei Village, Taipo, Hong Kong
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of
>thomas mccormick
>Sent: Tuesday, 29 August, 2006 9:41 AM
>To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
>Subject: Re: Hidden Treasures: The Manuscripts of "Twenty Thousand Leagues"
>
>How 'bout an annotated edition with the MSS. and the published version in
>parellel columns?
>
>The first such Verne book to be so honored would have to be Twenty Thousand
>Leagues, but let's not stop there!!!
>
>Bill, maybe you'd better found an institute for the training of the
>schoarly
>
>army it will take to reveal the "hidden treasures" now buried beneath
>"edited", or rather censored, versions!!!! It may take more than one man's
>threescore and ten to scrape away all the dross.
>
>Tom
>
>
> >From: "wbutcher" <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com>
> >Reply-To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> >To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> >Subject: Re: Hidden Treasures: The Manuscripts of "Twenty Thousand
>Leagues"
> >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:00:50 +0800
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks for the kind words. I think I can feel another book coming on!
> >
> >
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >wbutcher~at~netvigator.com
> >
> >http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/
> >
> >1/F, 46A, Lung Mei Village, Taipo, Hong Kong
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> >From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf
>Of
> >Chris Moser
> >Sent: Sunday, 27 August, 2006 11:00 PM
> >To: Jules Verne Forum; William Butcher
> >Cc: Arthur B. Evans; Jules Verne Forum
> >Subject: Re: Hidden Treasures: The Manuscripts of "Twenty Thousand
>Leagues"
> >
> >
> >
> >I congratulate Bill on a facinating piece of scholarship . Certainly for
> >those of us that are interested to understand what Verne really meant to
> >tell us , the publishing of the original manuscripts would be of
>tremendous
> >importance.
> >
> >One can only imagine the torture that Verne must have gone through, first
> >to
> >be subjected to the insensitive commercialization of his work by Hetzel,
> >and
> >then to be lauded by the masses for a work that wasn't really his.
> >
> >
> >
> >Chris Moser
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> >From: Zvi Har'El <mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> >
> >To: William <mailto:wbutcher~at~netvigator.com> Butcher
> >
> >Cc: Arthur B. Evans <mailto:aevans2~at~tds.net> ; Jules Verne Forum
> ><mailto:jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> >
> >Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 6:11 AM
> >
> >Subject: Hidden Treasures: The Manuscripts of "Twenty Thousand Leagues"
> >
> >
> >
> >Dear Bill,
> >
> >
> >
> >I have added your article, "Hidden Treasures", which appeared in the
> >special
> >Jules Verne issue of the SFS last year, to the scholarship section in my
> >site, at <http://JV.Gilead.org.il/sfs/hiddentreasures.html%3e>
> ><http://JV.Gilead.org.il/sfs/hiddentreasures.html>. I thank you again for
> >making your work available on-line for the benefit of Jules Verne
> >researchers and enthusiasts all over the Internet.
> >
> >
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >
> >
> >Zvi.
> >
> >--
> >Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il Department of
> >Mathematics
> >tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of
> >Technology
> >fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000,
> >ISRAEL
> >"If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper
> >(1942)
> >
>
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