Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:46:07 -0700, Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
wrote:

Also, the book is a collection of letters and diary entries, some=20
"originally" in shorthand.  It would be hard to maintain that in a=20
visual format.

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Another novel done similarly is, IIRC, Wilkie Collins' /The Woman in
White/. There were probably others: this is probably a recognized
literary style.

It is called an "Epistolary Novel."

In the /Dracula/ I have seen, the closest to this is a scene where an
orderly reads a newspaper report about small childern injured by a
"bootiful lady". In the book, IIRC, you just get the newspaper story.
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You /could/ do a film of the book with characters reading the various
letters, diaries, etc, but I agree that it would work very well. As
you say, this literary style would be hard to maintain in a visual
format.

Some attempt was made to do that with Citizen Kane in a very limited way.
It worked well, but was only a part of the narrative.
--scott
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