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Re: cs lewis

> I think it is immoral to alter the work of ANY artist without their
> consent.

No one is *altering* Lewis's work -- only adding to it.  And while that's
just a bad idea, where the work of art is as personal as Lewis's Narnia
stories were, I would hesitate to write it off as "immoral".

I mean, plenty of artists play with the works of other artists -- witness
Tom Stoppard's _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead_, which uses
Shakespeare's _Hamlet_ as a jumping-off point, or anything based on an
ancient Greek or Roman myth.  The idea that art is an *individualist*
enterprise, and that the artist retains control over his or her work long
after he or she is dead, is a relatively recent idea, really.

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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