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February 07, 2005
Beginning a Novel...
Jordan Kare shoots and scores:
Making Light: More on the Atlanta Nights story: An enthusiastic teacher of creative writing was lecturing his students: 'Your characters must come alive on the page! If you are to be a great writer, you must bring your characters to life in your first paragraph... nay! in your very first sentence!'
And from the back of the room, a deep voice intoned, 'Marley was dead, to begin with.'
Posted by DeLong at February 7, 2005 09:23 PM
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Comments
That reminds me of the Sidney Morgenbesser story which I'm pasting from the New York Sun:
[V]isiting Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin... noted that it was peculiar that although there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, no example existed where two positives expressed a negative. In a dismissive voice, Morgenbesser replied from the audience, “Yeah, yeah…”
Posted by: Delicious Pundit at February 7, 2005 09:36 PM
Funny and funnier.
Posted by: Tom Maguire at February 8, 2005 08:10 AM
Funny. See the Bulwer-Lyton Fiction Contest. http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ with the 2004 winner's entry:
She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail . . . though the term "love affair" now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike "sand vein," which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon.
Posted by: ned at February 8, 2005 10:08 AM
As for the double positive, I prefer, "Yeah, right!"
Posted by: Lawrence White at February 8, 2005 06:06 PM
Ummmm...it's Jordin. Physicist. Science fiction fan. Filksinger.
Posted by: Jim S at February 8, 2005 06:25 PM
Yes, but Marley's GHOST is fully alive from the very first page!
Posted by: Paul Gottlieb at February 9, 2005 01:57 PM