https://livesteven.com/2026/07/26/some-reaons-for-missing-a-technology-that-still-required-a-person-to-drive-and-regulate-its-process-the-case-of-the-hand-loom-and-cottage-industry-in-literature-a-blog-on-extracts-from-george-eliot/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-07-26T16:17:29+00:00Some reaons for missing a technology that still required a person to drive and regulate its process: the case of the hand loom and cottage industry in literature. A blog on extracts from George Eliot’s ‘Silas Marner’ and Douglas Stuart’s ‘John of John’.dailyprompt, writing, books, fiction, history, george-eliot, john-of-john, douglas-stuart, dailyprompt-2826, silas-marnerhttps://livesteven.com/2026/07/25/changing-the-ending-the-issue-is-not-with-books-so-to-speak-but-with-stories-where-changed-endings-are-only-one-form-of-a-work-which-must-exist-through-history-as-trans-2/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-07-25T12:19:45+00:00Changing the ending? The issue is not with ‘books’, so to speak, but with stories, where changed endings are only one form of a work, which must exist through history as ‘translations, versions, or adaptations of works’ that involve ‘a conversation with an earlier writer’. Let’s choose, then, as so many have already done, a story where conversations with the original are ‘an encounter … across the span of two-and-a-half millennia’. Part Three of an examination of three versions of ‘The Oresteia’ before Simon Stone’s brilliant version: the ‘Girl Who Closed Her Case’ in ‘The Oresteia’ of Zinnie Harris, ‘This Restless House’.dailyprompt, books, fiction, plays, dailyprompt-2835, the-oresteia, this-restless-house, zinnie-harris, scottish-drama, versions-and-variations, endings