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   From: matti@official-totally-reversed.com   
      
   "JF"  wrote...   
   >   
   > Fiction authors usually manage to end up with some egg -- especially   
   > when they're caught out by unexpected success of a character.   
   > [...]   
   > In the case of the Jack Lewis retro, The Magician's Nephew, at least   
   > he made a bold attempt to remedy the cock-up brought about by the   
   > success of LWW. As Douglas Grisham explained when he introduced   
   > TMN as the opening story in the Narnia Chronicles, Jack Lewis   
   > considered it the most important of all the novels. Although authors   
   > have absolutely no say in the manner of their publishers' design and   
   > presentation of their work, Harpic Collins did, at least, honour Jack   
   > Lewis's intentions in the volume sequencing, and Douglas Grisham   
   > stuck to his stepfather's insistence that it should be the first story   
   > when he produced the definitive and only correct dramatisation for   
   > the Focus on the Family production. [...]   
      
   Well you can see why those lovely people at FotF, armed only with an   
   epistle from the 1950s, would like the Narnia stories to be seen as some   
   intelligently-designed creation.  The rest of us believe it just evolved   
   naturally, with the inevitable cock-ups and red herrings providing much   
   of the charn^Hm.   
      
   Matti   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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