which I tend to read almost compulsively when the mood strikes, when the more sensible among you are reading fanfic
Do you mean that you compulsively read stuff from vanity presses, or that you compulsively read threads about vanity presses?
You know, earlier this year I was working my way through Glen Cook's Black Company sequence, and one of them bears the following dedication (very closely paraphrased): "For Russell Galen, #40, at twenty-five years. It hasn't always been a happy marriage, but let's see if we can keep making it work, eh?"
I immediately leapt up and said to my girlfriend (also a Black Company addict) "Sweetheart! Glen Cook is married! He's been married for twenty-five years, at least, plus a few years since the book was published!" And the name Russell Galen was familiar, so I hopped online and Googled it out of curiosity. One minute later, I called out "Holy shit! Sweetheart, Glen Cook has been married to a guy for twenty-five years! I wonder how they managed that?"
Ten seconds later, enlightenment hit like a brick to the head.
Metaphors are crafty things, especially when the reader isn't. :)
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Date: 2004-12-17 05:18 pm (UTC)Do you mean that you compulsively read stuff from vanity presses, or that you compulsively read threads about vanity presses?
You know, earlier this year I was working my way through Glen Cook's Black Company sequence, and one of them bears the following dedication (very closely paraphrased): "For Russell Galen, #40, at twenty-five years. It hasn't always been a happy marriage, but let's see if we can keep making it work, eh?"
I immediately leapt up and said to my girlfriend (also a Black Company addict) "Sweetheart! Glen Cook is married! He's been married for twenty-five years, at least, plus a few years since the book was published!" And the name Russell Galen was familiar, so I hopped online and Googled it out of curiosity. One minute later, I called out "Holy shit! Sweetheart, Glen Cook has been married to a guy for twenty-five years! I wonder how they managed that?"
Ten seconds later, enlightenment hit like a brick to the head.
Metaphors are crafty things, especially when the reader isn't. :)