Slog - Comments on This Week In Ignoring Dead Authors' Wishes http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe Before Charles Dickens died, he proclaimed in his will that he wanted "no monument, memorial or testimonial whatever." Now the Dickens family wants to overturn their great-great-grandfather's dying wishes for no memorials. Because after 200 years with no official statues in the U.K., nobody in the world remembers who Charles Dickens was.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:00:41 -0800 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:18:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by daniel If you want something done right do it yourself.

There should be a registry where expiring writers can hook up with the many passionate defenders of dead authors wishes. You can't trust your friends to burn your papers.

Hell, money talks, for a fee I will burn your papers. Leave them to me in your will along with $1000 plus reasonable travel expenses & I'll burn them up without even thinking for a moment of the judgement of the ages.

]]> daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977492 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977492 Books Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:42:10 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways come, come...everyone is familiar with "A Christmas Carol", at the very least for the Mr Magoo version.

and thanks to South Park and that dreadful modern adaptation with Gywneth Paltrow, most folks are familiar with "Great Expectations"

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977596 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977596 Books Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:38:05 -0800 Comment by arduous Who?

]]> arduous http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977682 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977682 Books Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:30:14 -0800 Comment by Big Adventure Steve I wish the dead people would mind their own damn business.

]]> Big Adventure Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977761 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_week_in_ignoring_dead_authors_wishe#c977761 Books Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:25:36 -0800 Comment by King Rat Why should I care what a dead author thought?

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