{"id":5886,"date":"2020-12-22T16:48:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:52:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:52:25","slug":"lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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INT. DEN, FORTRESS MAMEA -- AFTERNOON<\/p>\n

THE LOVELY WIFE, a slab of “Owner Builder” MAGAZINES on her lap, glances up at her PET WRITER’s reading: a NOVEL by [a very famous New Zild writer].<\/p>\n

THE LOVELY WIFE<\/p>\n

How’s it going?<\/p>\n

PET WRITER<\/p>\n

... Ehh. I’m fifty pages in and it’s all been introductions of a whole bunch of characters, all experiencing the same traumatic event, each introduction from their own point of view BUT WITH NO GODDAMNED PROGRESSION OF STORY.<\/p>\n

THE LOVELY WIFE<\/p>\n

What’d you expect?<\/p>\n

PET WRITER<\/p>\n

Well, with Stephen King’s “The Stand” --<\/p>\n

THE LOVELY WIFE<\/p>\n

Whoa, there, tiger: they’re two very different things.<\/p>\n

PET WRITER<\/p>\n

They’re both about a small number of people surviving some terrible incident --<\/p>\n

THE LOVELY WIFE<\/p>\n

Yes, sure, but “The Stand” is a fantasy novel while that --<\/p>\n

(re. novel in Pet Writer’s hand)<\/p>\n

-- is literature<\/u>.<\/p>\n

PET WRITER<\/p>\n

“Literature<\/u>“?<\/p>\n

He looks anew at the book in his hand:<\/p>\n

PET WRITER<\/p>\n

HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN?<\/p>\n

The Lovely Wife sighs and resumes her magazine reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INT. DEN, FORTRESS MAMEA -- AFTERNOON THE LOVELY WIFE, a slab of “Owner Builder” MAGAZINES on her lap, glances up at her PET WRITER’s reading: a NOVEL by [a very famous New Zild writer]. THE LOVELY WIFE How’s it going? PET WRITER ... Ehh. I’m fifty pages in and it’s all been introductions of a … <\/p>\n

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