No weather: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks, this is great!

2017-04-09 13:54 GMT+02:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/writers-in-the-storm
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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