[lit-ideas] Re: Implicatura
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:51:14 -0700
On Oct 17, 2015, at 5:32 AM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is a brilliant dystopian novel about a country where the government, to
curry favour with the voters, bans all words with "impli-" at the beginning
I say brilliant but I haven't sat down to write it just yet.
Like the buffalo and the wildebeest, great herds of novels in this liminal
state used to roam freely in the wild. Naturalists report that brilliant
unwritten novels are not actually in decline as a species, but they have become
increasingly shy. Publishers’ minions in New York and London gather around a
shared, guttering candle to hold annual celebrations of their absence.The
Public is thought to prefer books written by people who know people, but the
Public’s opinion is increasingly hard to guage; whenever Gupta rings them, they
hang up.
David Ritchie,
awaiting rain in
Portland, Oregon
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