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October 29, 2007
are editors worth their weight or volume?
When Nicki announced that Christine Denniston was at the Crypt to sign and sell her new book on tango I carried on taking photos and dancing. I assumed it was one I had missed, that others had known about it well in advance and that there’d be no opportunity to write any more. Some days later it came as a surprise to discover that Katie (editor of Dance Today) had put a copy in the post for me to review.
Letters to my place are always late and the book was no exception, arriving a scant day before a trip to Moravia on a wine travel assignment. Had Katie given a deadline I’d have missed it through no fault of my own. As it was I planned to read the book for relaxation during the trip.
Prague, Golden City
(c) Carole Edrich 2007
Known as the Golden City of Spires Prague has an interesting history and exciting future. This City of Kafka is a gold mine of stories to discover and tell, with vibrant conventional and alternative cultures, opera, puppetry, marionettes, and a wonderfully opulent and photogenically romantic Gothic architectural style. Today's plans (to look for stories on adventure and dance) were scuppered when, in the car between Prague and the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hura I received some significant news.
The triumvirate working on Lucia’s case had finally recommended that the court process was ‘unsafe’, that the Dutch Supreme Court consider a retrial and even suggested that Lucia be let out of prison on bail.
Marionette from shop in central Prague
(c) Carole Edrich 2007
While other countries might indeed release her as a result of such findings, Holland did not. The Powers That Be did however release a summary in English. It seems to be carefully worded to downplay the injustices highlighted by the full report of her case. That makes a coherent translation of the whole thing very much more urgent but it's in progress as I write.
Marionette from shop in central Prague
(many call Lucia's case a modern day witch trial)
(c) Carole Edrich 2007
Lucia’s my friend. Editing translation of the big documents to English is more important than money. It’s not just the book review that suffered – there was no time to research those stories on dance.
Luckily Katie had already told me there was no hurry for the review. Such understanding editors are worth their weight in gold… or their volume in wine.
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