tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post8626769379913638970..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Little Knife Fight on the PrairieDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-32071168514160349422014-05-20T08:12:44.935-04:002014-05-20T08:12:44.935-04:00I want to know about those hoodlums whom Mrs. Boas...I want to know about those hoodlums whom Mrs. Boast let take Rose home. I don't know whether or not Laura and Mary would have been endangered in the camps, but I do remember getting a clear, if muted, sense that Ma and Pa thought they there was danger. I first read the books when I turned twenty. I wouldn't have twigged if I'd read them first at ten.<br /><br />Rose does clearly think of Laura in the story as fictional. I wonder how Laura felt about it, having to change and rewrite her own childhood motivations?<br /><br />I still want to read the unexpurgated version, with Laura pulling a knife.lissla lissarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354424704358588553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-9691994295912947022014-05-20T08:02:23.986-04:002014-05-20T08:02:23.986-04:00I think it's hard for people to envision beca...I think it's hard for people to envision because they are thinking of the <i>characters</i> Laura and Rose and not the real live women.<br /><br />It's apparent from the third person she uses in the letters that Rose at least thinks of the Laura who exists in the books as a character in a children's story, not as the mother who raised her or as the author she worked with to develop.bearinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953735060133330755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-69948891867640536212014-05-19T17:49:56.413-04:002014-05-19T17:49:56.413-04:00Yeah, that's kind of interesting. It seems to...Yeah, that's kind of interesting. It seems to be the way that people approach the whole authorship question as well: Either Rose is the forgotten real author, or Rose is the pushy daughter getting in the way of Laura's authentic voice. I'm not sure why a true author/editor collaboration is so hard to envision.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-73065541913413501172014-05-19T15:58:20.492-04:002014-05-19T15:58:20.492-04:00What is interesting to me is how people take sides...What is interesting to me is how people take sides in the Laura/Rose debate. <br /><br />I read about this letter on Facebook and most people tended to agree with Laura that the working men were probably dangerous. When I read about it in another location, most of the people there agreed with Rose that the danger was way overstated.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12507330852895229468noreply@blogger.com