Greg Egan on Nostr: nprofile1q…aq8c7 I hope you’ll forgive some unsolicited quibbles … (1) Please, ...
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I hope you’ll forgive some unsolicited quibbles …
(1) Please, please don’t attribute the words of fictional characters in a story, novel, play or screenplay to the author, as if they said this “as themself” in an essay or interview. Characters can say things that the author entirely disagrees with, or for various reasons would never state in the same language. And regardless of any misalignment of political opinions, moral sentiment, or just tone, in the interests of accuracy, such quotes really should be attributed with their full context: the character, the work, and the author.
(2) Though Graham Greene wrote the screenplay of “The Third Man”, in which Harry Lime speaks these words, it is true that Orson Welles himself added this line to the script. But it’s complicated; Welles admitted that it was not an original observation. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man#%22Cuckoo_clock%22_speech
I hope you’ll forgive some unsolicited quibbles …
(1) Please, please don’t attribute the words of fictional characters in a story, novel, play or screenplay to the author, as if they said this “as themself” in an essay or interview. Characters can say things that the author entirely disagrees with, or for various reasons would never state in the same language. And regardless of any misalignment of political opinions, moral sentiment, or just tone, in the interests of accuracy, such quotes really should be attributed with their full context: the character, the work, and the author.
(2) Though Graham Greene wrote the screenplay of “The Third Man”, in which Harry Lime speaks these words, it is true that Orson Welles himself added this line to the script. But it’s complicated; Welles admitted that it was not an original observation. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man#%22Cuckoo_clock%22_speech