Lord, I hate it when they do that to books. Some years ago, a dear friend who knew me well got me a fancy new edition of National Velvet to replace my rapidly disintegrating Scholastic paperback. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Velvet and her sisters (especially the eldest and most beautiful, Edwina) cussed. I mean, Velvet calls 'Dwina a bitch at one point (it was richly deserved, too). And in the context of how Velvet pulled off her masquerade as a male jockey, they omitted the following line, which I found really odd: "'A boy and a girl, they're that much alike that you've gotter have the pants off them to see ...'"
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Date: 2008-03-11 09:54 pm (UTC)Lord, I hate it when they do that to books. Some years ago, a dear friend who knew me well got me a fancy new edition of National Velvet to replace my rapidly disintegrating Scholastic paperback. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Velvet and her sisters (especially the eldest and most beautiful, Edwina) cussed. I mean, Velvet calls 'Dwina a bitch at one point (it was richly deserved, too). And in the context of how Velvet pulled off her masquerade as a male jockey, they omitted the following line, which I found really odd: "'A boy and a girl, they're that much alike that you've gotter have the pants off them to see ...'"