It is one of the paltry niceties of modern literary life that somehow irritate me. Have you noticed how long novels can be! They go on for ever, and nothing ever happens. Not only that but if by some oversight the novelist allows themselves the frisson of excitement that comes from allowing something to happen, it always happens slowly. I despair!
A poem is fugacious
Vivacious
Flirtatious
A novel is interminable
Unpardonable
Amortizable
But the hero of my tale, as Anthony reminded me, is a fine fellow who set out, single-handedly, to remedy this. Only he did so by accident.
Port Naain has a few epitomators, nobody really knows how many. Most epitomes are written for students. Faced with reading the dozen thick volumes recommended for their course the average student panics and turns to drink. But just as they’re sobering up along comes the accomplished epitomator. They’ll clap the…
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Tallis, yes, I have noticed some of those rambling novels that go nowhere, I try to avoid them at all cost. Thank you for pointing this out, so bravely. Thank you! Karen 🙂
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there is still a place in literature for the unreliable epitomator 🙂
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Yes there is! Karen 🙂
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Perhaps we could provide a list of suitable novels for him to work on.
He is a man of taste, he doesn’t merely take somebody’s book and add zombies 😉
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J. it sound as though he has talent although I have no idea what his very genre is, but all fiction and non-fiction has something to offer – the good ones and the less than good too, because a writer can see the flaws and correct them in his own work. Thank you for a great comment. Karen 🙂
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Obviously the story should be longer, but being about an epitomator………..
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👍😄😄😄
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