TMoP

[Joe Allonby]

Sounds more like an HBO series.



On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>wrote:

>
> If Madison Avenue were running a campaign for readers of The Master of
> Petersburg, my guess for an excerpt would be:
>
> "If he were more confident of his French he would channel this disturbing
> excitement into a book of the kind one cannot publish in Russia - something
> that could be finished off in a hurry, in two or three weeks, even without a
> copyist - ten signatures, three hundred page. A book of the night, in which
> every excess would be represented and no bounds respected ... With a chapter
> in which the noble memoirist reads aloud to the young daughter of his
> mistress a story of the seduction of a young girl in which he himself
> emerges more and more clearly as having been the seducer. A story full of
> intimate detail and innuendo which by no means seduces the daughter but on
> the contrary frightens her and disturbs her sleep and makes her so doubtful
> of her own purity that three days later she gives herself up to him in
> despair, in the most shameful of ways, in a way of which no child could
> conceive were the history of her own seduction and surrender and manner of
> its doing not deeply impressed on her beforehand."
>
> However this is a serious group of readers and using such an excerpt to
> gain readers is something I would never do.
>
> Lawrence
>
>
>
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