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Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story...
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Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:51:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Geordan Hankinson writes:
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If you like, I can change the name, (?)

No, of course not! I just wanted to hear your "explanation" or reasoning.

The "New Byzantine Army" still, IMHO, is a *BIG* misnomer. While I understand
that the story is fiction, I think that it is confusing and rather silly.

Ok, did anyone else find it "out of place?" cuz then I think I will change it,

if more people have negative feelings about it then I think it would be
appropriate to change it.

Don't change a story because people have negative feelings about it. Post
disclaimers if you wish, but unless the story itself is somehow inciting
people, don't change it. Even if people criticise the story itself, to do so
violates your own artistic integrity.

Disclaim yes, acknowledge criticism yes. Change, no. Unless you yourself
want to change it. In which case, do, but do so for your own reasons. Be an
artist, not a panderer or someone trying to hit the maximum positive public
opinion.

This has come up before and this distinction seems lost on some,
unfortunately, because it can cause all sorts of hard feelings and general
ill will.

++Lar



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snip (...) Ok, did anyone else find it "out of place?" cuz then I think I will change it, if more people have negative feelings about it then I think it would be appropriate to change it. -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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