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Date Posted: 09:34:44 10/14/03 Tue
Author: GG
Author Host/IP: 213.107.101.95
Subject: GG's Weird and Wacky Question of the Day...
So, this http://www.heinleinsociety.org/newsFUTL.html is a press release from the Heinlein Society announcing the publication of a NEW Heinlein book, his very first, in fact, that never got published. To say I am excited is an understatement.
What deceased author would you love them to find an unpublished work from?
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Any of the apostles -- Kuzibah, 10:04:16 10/14/03 Tue (12.175.117.195)
The Book of Mary Magdelene would also be nice. Or, heck, since we're speculating, how about Christ himself. He could clear up all the various interpretation discrepancies.
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Ya know, I was originally thinking along your lines. -- Grim ,_,_), 10:07:19 10/14/03 Tue (66.95.229.84)
I decided to go with the more down to earth.
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Is the Book of Mary Magdalene available anywhere? -- wwolfe, 12:39:58 10/14/03 Tue (161.149.63.106)
I was talking about that with idoru and I was under the impression the Apocrypha could be purchased. That might have been wishful thinking on my part.
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Is that in the Apocrypha? -- Kuzibah, 13:54:14 10/14/03 Tue (12.175.117.195)
It's not canon, although it is considered, well, apocryphal by the Catholic Church. Still, it wasn't part of my religious instruction.
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I think so, but I wouldn't bet a lot of money on being right. -- wwolfe, 15:12:34 10/14/03 Tue (161.149.63.106)
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Re: Is the Book of Mary Magdalene available anywhere? -- SteffiG, 21:32:49 10/14/03 Tue (209.6.181.81)
The Apocrypha are available. Pär read them some time ago and couldn't remember if the Book of Mary Magdalene is part of them, but this site seems to indicate it is: http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/gospels.htm (cut'n'paste, sorry).
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Thank you! -- wwolfe, 10:15:30 10/15/03 Wed (161.149.63.110)
I'd really like to read that.
I'd like it if someone would suggest returning that to its place in the Bible. Not holding my breath on that.
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Re: Thank you! -- Kuzibah, 11:58:01 10/15/03 Wed (12.175.117.195)
My understanding with the Apocrypha is that they aren't recognized by Protestants as being actually written in biblical times, but are probably fictional accounts written several hundred years later. Biblical fanfic, if you will. The Catholic Church, with its strong historical tradition, is less willing to completely throw the Apocryphal books out, but even they separate them from Canon. They take the same attitude with various Saints and religious artifacts, too (for example, St. Christopher is now believed to be a medieval fiction, not an actual person, yet St. Christopher medals are still sold in every Catholic shop.)
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"Biblical fanfic." -- wwolfe, 13:14:24 10/15/03 Wed (161.149.63.110)
That makes me laugh.
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Salmon Rushdie -- Grim ,_,_), 10:05:18 10/14/03 Tue (66.95.229.84)
Oh wait, they didn't catch him yet.
Seriously, Isaac Asimov. Brilliant.
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Mark Twain. -- wwolfe, 12:38:09 10/14/03 Tue (161.149.63.106)
Not fiction - his political writings. I think that's some of his best work and I'd love it if someone uncovered a big cache of work no one knew about.
Also, if someone stumbled across a finished version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon," that would be sweet. I've always thought it was sad he didn't have a chance to finish that.
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Re: GG's Weird and Wacky Question of the Day... -- Mcookies, 13:05:11 10/14/03 Tue (205.188.209.73)
Agatha Christie. I love mysteries and she has always been one of my faves.
Funny story -- I was reading one of her books on the bus; she'd been dead about 5 years at that time. This big, scary-looking, multi-tattooed guy looked at what I was reading and said "Oh, Agatha Christie. You don't hear much from her lately. You know what she needs to do?" (rise from the dead was my thought) "She needs to sit herself down and write herself another book. Then people would be talking about her again." (I'm sure they would)
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Reminds me of something GGsBrother says to me... -- GG, 15:10:50 10/14/03 Tue (213.107.101.95)
I have first edition of Heinlein's posthumous (SP?) book Grumbles from the Grave signed by his wife, Virginia. That great cut up, GGsBrother, is always asking me why Robert didn't sign it himself...now THAT would be worth some money!
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Re: Reminds me of something GGsBrother says to me... -- GGsBrother, 22:20:48 10/14/03 Tue (12.232.6.171)
Well? Why *didn't* he? He just managed to publish a whole new book, for crying out loud. Not signing my sister's _Grumbles_ is just, well, rude!!
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Re: GG's Weird and Wacky Question of the Day... -- rktekt, 02:12:43 10/15/03 Wed (67.117.131.185)
Sorry to pick nits (especially when it comes to my own sister) but to my knowledge, neither Mary nor Christ were authors.
So I would have to go with John Lennon.
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Robert Tressell -- John, 21:43:33 10/15/03 Wed (81.131.142.78)
His daughter found the original manuscript for 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' in a box under his bed, after he had died, read it and was astounded that her father had done this and got it published - and it has become a classic. I've often wondered if there was more of his stuff, in a box in an attic somewhere.
John Kennedy Toole wrote A Confedaracy of Dunces - brilliant title for an acerbice satire, sadly it is his only work to my knowledge - it would be nice to belevie that an unknown manuscript appears at some time.
Sappho - Only fragments of this talented romantic Roman poet remains - surely there must be more lying in a cave, in some large amphorae somewhere.
Herodotus - His Histories have taught us many of what we understand about the roman Empore in its pomp - but as with many Roman writeres - there are many gaps where his writing have become lost!
I could go on.....
I still have nightmares about the fire that destroyed the great Alexandrian library and shudder at the loss of so many one-off manuscrips - I am sure that it set back the development of contemporary civilisation a 1000 years, the Renaissance should have happened about 50 years after the falll of the Roman Empire.
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