INCOMPREHENSIBLE BOOK PRAISE
1. STARKLY INVETERATE 2. A MADDENED ROMP OF PATIENCE 3. A BLESSING OF DISCREET MINDS 4. JOINED IMMUTABLY! 5. TOTALLY SCANNED!!! 6. ONE WORD – SLORP!
1. STARKLY INVETERATE 2. A MADDENED ROMP OF PATIENCE 3. A BLESSING OF DISCREET MINDS 4. JOINED IMMUTABLY! 5. TOTALLY SCANNED!!! 6. ONE WORD – SLORP!
I looked into six eyes which sat at a desk. In ‘The Enormous Room’, an account of his weird Kafkaesque Orwellian three months spent in a wretched French prison at the end of World War One, e practices playing about with words.
“This court hereby finds you guilty as charged. You’re free to go, of course, but do try somehow to stop your constant robbing of things.”
One smart camper knew the correct answer. Yes, L. Frank Baum sent every word he wrote about Oz to Enrico Caruso for approval before daring to deliver a completed manuscript to his publisher, The Reilly & Lee Company of Chicago.
L. Frank Baum: a. wrote all of his Oz books with a pencil dipped in honey. b. wrote all of his Oz books blindfolded and balanced on a high wire. c. wrote all of his Oz books in a combination of Sanskrit and Inuit before working them out in Spanish, Finnish and finally, English. d. […]
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1. Rotundity, Wherefore Art Thou? 2. The Singing Roman 3. A Fistful of Scandinavia 4. Jelly: A Saga of the Kitchen 5. Which of This is to be All True in the Harvest of Many Quills
Mr. and Mrs. America, hold on to your hats. Here come Ernest Hemingway and Ginger Rogers starring in a gender-bending rags to riches tale of the depression set in pre-industrial meso-America. Watch Ernie dance and sing his way into your heart. See Ginger outrun, outfight, and outspit legions of Aztec warriors. Never before has there […]
They always commenced bellowing in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten. Whitening hem. Good one. Writers of fiction throughout the ages have had to deal with dawn. Somebody, not me, should compile a whole sheaf of breaking dawn prose and nail it to the door of […]
“It’s time for us, the shy two, To say a fond good-bye to, You and hope you liked the sho-oh-oh, Good night.”