Bad books on writing tell you to “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
In honor of Lord Byron’s birthday I would like to remind you all of the time that Shelley and Keats, having not heard from him for some time, became concerned for his safety and it was determined that Shelley would go looking for him. Keats received a letter some time later that Shelley had found him in Venice, where he’d been having so much sex that he’d nearly died from malnourishment and dehydration. Keats’ entire response amounted to essentially, “You should probably have let him.”
“I found him, he’s in a gutter.” “Well go put him back”
Victor Frankenstein: I have made a Monster.
Everyone: You fucked up a perfectly good corpse is what you did. Look at it. It’s got anxiety.
ok so I was reading Victor Hugo’s wiki page and apparently in 1862 he was on vacation & wanted to know whether Les Mis was selling well so he literally sent a single ‘?’ to his publisher, to which his publisher replied ’!’ indicating it was doing well and?? if this doesn’t sum up victor hugo idk what does
i can think of a lot of things that sum up victor hugo better than extremely concise methods of written communication
just sayin
“Flashy people may burlesque these things,” sniped Mather in 1702, taking aim at the “learned witlings of the coffeehouse,” the latte-sipping liberals of the day.
The Witches by Stacy Schiff
I can’t believe coffeeshop hipsters existed as far back as 1702
That moment when the Toronto edition of Metro thinks that the Elvish alphabet Tengwar, used to write Tolkien’s made-up language Quenya, is in fact used to write Scottish Gaelic …
Kimchi and Justice 