Saturday, 4 August 2007

Improving Literature

I'm thinking of writing some high quality literature so as to improve our public's stagnating minds. One plot that suggests itself:
A lowly factory girl overcomes obstacles to patent her own labour-saving device & marry the local lord after his decadent, foreign wife dies in a mining accident.

Sample paragraph
Dolly looked at the crouched figures trudging miserably towards the colliery; their blackened, simian features seeing only the muddy ground beneath their heavy feet. The godly sphere of the sun was not to be met by their defeated eyes.
Her rosy cheeks positively burned with indignation. "If I can only perfect my as yet vaguely imagined labour saving device so as to prevent the factory owners having to pay these ignorant fucking monkeys... my future may indeed be a fortunate one."

A later episode
The knife plunged one last time into Lord Snigsby's corpulent body. He stared into Dolly's mocking eyes. Only now did he realise how mad she truly was.

6 comments:

trailbee said...

Wouldn't corpulent body be more appropriate? But, then, I'm only an ignorant American. What the hell do we know? The rest is good, sick, but good.

Andrew said...

That very thought struck me during the night, Trailbee. Flabby flesh or corpulent body. Artist that I am, I'll change it.

trailbee said...

The earth moved. Thank you.

Gar said...

Excellent stuff. You've outdone yourself.

Anonymous said...

most amusing, i trust future chapters will feature an evil monkey and a dwarf with a heart of gold?

Andrew said...

Delighted, but, of course, not surprised at the postitive vibes towards this improving literature venture. Perhaps I could include a monkey but it may have to be of the benevolent kind so as to balance our heroine's feisty nature. People will say my heroine is "fantastic....beyond the pale", etc, but I attest that she is realism in its truest guise. Are there not people exactly like this on every street in the modern world?