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Originally Posted by Catlady
Isn't it better not to start on that slippery slope? Leave the damn "aeroplane" alone, leave all of it alone to stand or fall on its own merits.
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I'm late, but I want to talk about the slippery slope in the Trixie Belden context.
The Trixie Belden books were edited for offensiveness/updatedness in between when I and my youngest sister (nine years younger) read them. Where Jim's term of endearent for Trixie was "moll dick" in my editions, that was altered to "schoolgirl shamus" by the time my sister got to them. A full skirted party dress was changed to a mini-dress with green trim, but Mrs. Belden still forced Trixie into a girdle before she got into it. Despite changing the world to circa 1970 when the "Uglies" were released, Mart still needed to plug in his reel to reel tape player, and most absurd of all, Trixie still thought she would buy that horse on an allowance of $5/week, poor dear. I think she's still saving up for it, perhaps in a few more decades.....
My point is that words and situations are an integral part of a book's structure. Once you start tinkering, you create an avalanche of necessary changes to remain coherent and cohesive and it's never entirely successful.