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• Una afición insana por el programa de autos de la BBC Top Gear.
• Escritos corrosivos y altamente parciales en contra de la Iglesia, generalmente la Católica Apostólica Romana.
• Un flaco tirando soretes a un ventilador prendido, tratando de exponer a los Kirchner por lo que son: demagogos, capitalistas, estafadores, mafiosos, clientelistas, ladrones y verdugos de nuestra Argentina.
• Amor oscilante por las bicicletas.
• Obsesión justificada por Star Wars (al menos lo que hoy se conoce como episodios IV, V y VI).
• Posts aleatorios acerca de cine: defenestrando la máquina de hacer chorizos que es Hollywood y reivindicando algunas pequeñas películas que a mi me gustan.
• El acto de compartir web sites oscuros, pero ácidos y divertidos.
• Profesiones de odio en contra de las malditas PC y el maldito Windows.
• Declaraciones de amor incondicional a las Mac y en general a cualquier cosa Apple.
• Documentales breves de mis viajes.
• Reseñas de libros que disfruto, la mayoría oscuros y de ningún valor cultural para las masas.
• Fotos altamente parciales acerca de mi vida, mi casa, de Rose -mi pareja- y mi mascota. Todas ellas me hacen parecer más flaco de lo que realmente estoy.
• Relatos que me hacen parecer un superhéroe que está siempre en lo correcto. (Verosímil pero fantasioso.)
• Cobertura de diferentes obras de arte en madera.
• Algún post errático acerca de el mejor instrumento de todos: la armónica.
• Paseos virtuales acerca de mi alter-ego: un estudiante del CBC de 34 años, que sueña con ser Diseñador Industrial antes de que vuelva a cambiar el mileño.

Después no digan que no les avisé.

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Upcoming NewSouth 'Huck Finn' Eliminates the 'N' Word

By Marc Schultz

 
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of "all modern American literature." Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation's most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word: "nigger."




Twain himself defined a "classic" as "a book which people praise and don't read." Rather than see Twain's most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the "n" word (as well as the "in" word, "Injun") by replacing it with the word "slave."



"This is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind," said Gribben, speaking from his office at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he's spent most of the past 20 years heading the English department. "Race matters in these books. It's a matter of how you express that in the 21st century."



The idea of a more politically correct Finn came to the 69-year-old English professor over years of teaching and outreach, during which he habitually replaced the word with "slave" when reading aloud. Gribben grew up without ever hearing the "n" word ("My mother said it's only useful to identify [those who use it as] the wrong kind of people") and became increasingly aware of its jarring effect as he moved South and started a family. "My daughter went to a magnet school and one of her best friends was an African-American girl. She loathed the book, could barely read it."



Including the table of contents, the slur appears 219 times in Finn. What finally convinced Gribben to turn his back on grad school training and academic tradition, in which allegiance to the author's intent is sacrosanct, was his involvement with the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read Alabama.



Tom Sawyer was selected for 2009's Big Read Alabama, and the NEA tapped NewSouth, in Montgomery, to produce an edition for the project. NewSouth contracted Gribben to write the introduction, which led him to reading and speaking engagements at libraries across the state. Each reading brought groups of 80 to 100 people "eager to read, eager to talk," but "a different kind of audience than a professor usually encounters; what we always called ‘the general reader.'



"After a number of talks, I was sought out by local teachers, and to a person they said we would love to teach this novel, and Huckleberry Finn, but we feel we can't do it anymore. In the new classroom, it's really not acceptable." Gribben became determined to offer an alternative for grade school classrooms and "general readers" that would allow them to appreciate and enjoy all the book has to offer. "For a single word to form a barrier, it seems such an unnecessary state of affairs," he said.



Gribben has no illusions about the new edition's potential for controversy. "I'm hoping that people will welcome this new option, but I suspect that textual purists will be horrified," he said. "Already, one professor told me that he is very disappointed that I was involved in this." Indeed, Twain scholar Thomas Wortham, at UCLA, compared Gribben to Thomas Bowdler (who published expurgated versions of Shakespeare for family reading), telling PW that "a book like Professor Gribben has imagined doesn't challenge children [and their teachers] to ask, ‘Why would a child like Huck use such reprehensible language?' "



Of course, others have been much more enthusiastic—including the cofounders of NewSouth, publisher Suzanne La Rosa and editor-in-chief Randall Williams. In addition to the mutual success of their Tom Sawyer collaboration, Gribben thought NewSouth's reputation for publishing challenging books on Southern culture made them the ideal—perhaps the only—house he could approach with his radical idea.



"What he suggested," said La Rosa, "was that there was a market for a book in which the n-word was switched out for something less hurtful, less controversial. We recognized that some people would say that this was censorship of a kind, but our feeling is that there are plenty of other books out there—all of them, in fact—that faithfully replicate the text, and that this was simply an option for those who were increasingly uncomfortable, as he put it, insisting students read a text which was so incredibly hurtful."



La Rosa and Williams committed to a short turnaround, looking to get the finished product on shelves by February. Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition will be a $24.95 hardcover, with a 7,500 first printing. In the meantime, Gribben has gone back to the original holographs to craft his edition, which is also unusual in combining the two "boy books," as he calls them, into a single volume. But the heart of the matter is opening up the novels to a much broader, younger, and less experienced reading audience: "Dr. Gribben recognizes that he's putting his reputation at stake as a Twain scholar," said La Rosa. "But he's so compassionate, and so believes in the value of teaching Twain, that he's committed to this major departure. I almost don't want to acknowledge this, but it feels like he's saving the books. His willingness to take this chance—I was very touched."

"LONGITUD"

En mi reciente viaje al centro del viejo mundo -con una patita en la mitad "este" y la otra en la mitad "oeste" del globo terráqueo-, me volví a enamorar de la cartografía, la exploración, las longitudes y latitudes y demás yerbas.

Tratando de entender un poco mejor el mundo en el que vivimos, (o al menos de sus líneas imaginarias) me traje suficiente literatura como para tirar unos cuantos meses. Entre ellos, el libro a mi izquierda.

Me gustaría transcribirles una historia de este libro.

Cuenta el libro que la noche del 22 de octubre de 1707 fue una de bruma muy gruesa. Tan densa, in fact, que 5 navíos ingleses estaban totalmente perdidos estando a escasas leguas de su destino y hogar.

El almirante de la flota, y capitán del buque insignia -Sir Clowdisley Shovell- fue encarado por uno de sus marinos, quién había decidido arriesgar el pescuezo y decirle a su capitán que, en su opinión, el curso que él había trazado era erróneo, dado que su posición actual no era la que él creía. Este comportamiento subversivo estaba prohibido en la marina real bajo pena de muerte. Y así fue que Sir Clowdisley hizo colgar en el acto al marino que permaneció anónimo. No muchos minutos más tarde, 4 de los 5 navíos chocaron contra las Islas Scilly, hundiéndose en instantes y clamando la vida de 2000 marinos. Sólo 2 tripulantes se salvaron de esa suerte, el almirante Clowdisley entre ellos, quien logró nadar hasta la orilla. Ahí fue encontrado por una mujer, quién se aprovechó de su falta de fuerzas para asesinarlo y robarle el anillo de esmeraldas que llevaba en su mano izquierda.