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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I'd like to bring up another issue:
Equally important are division breaks within a text signifying time breaks, cognitive dissonance, and/or narratival distortions when studying physical space within a text, components that help one to study the language of story and storyteller. Think of the cuts in a film and how they can best be used to draw and/or link a narrative within a structured time sequence. Dissertations have been written on this subject, an area that I find rich in study (back when I was working on Kenneth Burke and rhetorical theory, an area that then led toward the study of narration and the language of fiction).
I don't have my text here in front of me of The Crystal Cave, but I was trying to remember if a narrative break occurred in Part I (near the end of Chapter 1):
This is what happened that night. I saw it, and it is a true tale.
and then there is a break of one short paragraph that then stops for the beginning of Chapter 2.
If there was a break in the narrative at that point, then the text assembled by this publisher in question is not true to Stewart's own text. (Again, I cannot confirm this, since my text is currently in the U.S.)
Anyway, this is merely another example - along with the other ones already mentioned, that asks a number of questions that we (in my opinion) have yet to receive a definitive answer about.
Of course, copyright concern is the most important aspect, but these other issues (even if there is not a copyright issue), does bring into question the reliability of the text.
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Ok - thanks. Now I understand the concern. I'll keep an eye out for weird breaks, etc, that suggest these aren't faithful to the books.