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for a first time reader: 1957 version or the 2007 'original scroll'?
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>>9909181
The original scroll has excellent rhythm, and the lack of punctuation isn't challenging at all if you're familiar with English. He actually uses it in some very interesting ways.
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The Scroll is really the definitive version. Fewer "speed bumps" so to speak and not made bland for 1957 tastes.
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Agree. The original scroll has an intensity to it that you don't find in the somehow cartoonish first edition. Maybe this is personal, but the non-fiction element adds weight to the whole work. It's like a secret diary rather than a detached joke. There's an intimacy that the narrators has with the characters that just seems sappy in the first. The names are not changed too, which if you're into the history of all those writers and characters it makes the entire thing flow. It reminds me of other new journalism style essays.
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