Coffee and chocolate are the perfect after-Campbell-class apertifs in post-FTC blog discussion requirements.  I’m here at Panera because they have WI FI and I have no internet access at home (hopefully a short-term thing).  Anyway, jumping right into adaptations-they’re incredibly complicated, involved processes.  Since it is impossible to relate an entire novel in the amount of time the average person can stand to sit still, it seems that the best strategy is to focus on one aspect of the novel in which to present.  For example, when we talked about “The Glass Key,”  we said that perhaps the romantic angle was foucused upon.  To focus on one aspect means that another aspect is downplayed or even ignored altogether.  If focusing on one aspect means ignoring another, then there is a certain amount of fidelity that has been sacfriced in “adaptations.”  I’m sorry Dr. Campbell, but I feel that fidelity is an important issue in presenting your own work or anyone else’s.  Having a legal background, I see fiduciary duties as being incredibly important in every aspect of responsible living.  So, if it means making a movie tha tstays true to the original, then I’m all for it.  I wonder how authors feel when their works get appropriated in ways they intended.