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rbanffylast Friday at 2:49 PM1 replyview on HN

It's their call to make. They feel the chapters didn't represent their father and, as a draft, I would expect the later parts to have been less revised and to be in a rougher shape.


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serflast Friday at 6:52 PM

>It's their call to make.

Why? Because of possession? That's a crummy reason.

Art is supposed to be upheld as on par with 'divine creation' by those that respect it. Literature, being art, isn't different.

in other words, we knew the Ecce Homo restoration was botched because we were able to compare it to the original piece.. sadly we won't ever have the luxury of knowing what kind of hatchet was taken to the memoir after the author's death.

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