elves to the rescue

Tom CheneyOnce I had a collection of writing-related cartoons that made me happy. How I lost them isn’t important, and there is some good news: Robyn has come to my rescue and she doesn’t even know it. She sent me a link to the absolutely essential Philosophy Comix website, and on that page is a link to a repository of lost masterpieces, the Cartoonbank.com site. By plugging a few words into the advanced search screen I found my all time favorite cartoon by Tom Cheney. In case you can’t read the caption:

This is going to be a tough fix. He’s completely obscured the main character’s plausible motive for revenge by overdeveloping the setting and peppering the entire chapter with irrelevant flashback narratives.

I’m ordering a print, and you can too, or a t-shirt, even.

3. March 2004 by ?

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor,  writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series,  Where the Light Enters, was  released in 2019.

 

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.

— H.G. Wells (attributed), Sir Osbert Sitwell
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