No weather: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

[ish mailian]

No weather will be found in this book. This is an attempt to pull a
book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind
in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth
the while of some dare-devil person to try it, and the author was in
just the mood.

any a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it
because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an
author's progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the
weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are
bad for both reader and author.

Of course weather is necessary to a narrative of human experience.
That is conceded. But it ought to be put where it will not be in the
way; where it will not interrupt the flow of the narrative. And it
ought to be the ablest weather that can be had, not ignorant,
poor-quality, amateur weather. Weather is a literary specialty, and no
untrained hand can turn out a good article of it. The present author
can do only a few trifling ordinary kinds of weather, and he cannot do
those very good. So it has seemed wisest to borrow such weather as is
necessary for the book from qualified and recognized experts-giving
credit, of course. This weather will be found over in the back part of
the book, out of the way. See Appendix. The reader is requested to
turn over and help himself from time to time as he goes along.
- The American Claimant

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