I forgot to include this great picture which shows (again) how widely graphics are being used, but I couldn't stand thinking about hashing around the original long and mangled post. So, here's a rack of philosophical, historical works in graphic form from the For Beginners book series.
P.P.S. Faked you out with that 2-sentence stuff, didn't I?
P.P.P.S. We shall see...
UPDATE: What the heck? Here they are. I read:
She was her Staten Island cottage, the shining bay, the sailing ships, a sanctuary from the sense-numbing city. Imagine unlacing her every night. - The Midnight Band of Mercy by Michael Blaine.
I wrote: There wasn’t a flexible-enough cover identity, except possibly as an especially naive journalist or NGO staffer, which each had limitations. No one but a minister would drag his wife to these places, which left Franklyn the role of someone’s girlfriend, a status too often translated in locals’ minds to being the Westerners' whore.
Please share any two you read and wrote in the comments, or let us know where they're posted so we can provide the link.
Travis Erwin's inspirational and whitewashed twos.
Britta Coleman likes to post her 2x2s on Thursdays. A sweet one.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
KHAN!!!!!! A 2-sentence Postscript.
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OK, I am not sure what happened to the formatting of that first comment!
Well, I seem to be on a "two first sentences" kick. These are the first two sentences of a book by Cliff Burns, who's elected to
post his novel on his blog and take donations from readers who like it, rather than going the traditional publishing route. I think it's a fascinating experiment. If you want to participate, just clicking the link will take you to where you can download the book.
Here are the two sentences:
I want to confess.
This is a mystery, isn’t it, and in most whodunits doesn’t someone break down sooner or later, desperate to unburden their souls and dump the equivalent of about ten tons of accumulated guilt?
The two sentences I wrote introduce yet another character. My cast is getting almost unmanageably huge.
"This is Carlos Herrera. He’ll be on your train, probably covered in dust and looking disreputable enough to discourage the business types from sharing his seat."
I posted my lines over at my blog. Laura that is an interesting concept. Didn't Stephen King try something similar by charging a dollar a chapter or something?
Today I read a note from Frank Woolworth (founder of Woolworth's stores)to one of his store managers. There is no date, but it is probably more than a hundred years old.
"Glad the inspector called the manager's attention to the untidy appearance of the candy girl. I wish to impress on every manager to put the neatest, cleanest and most attractive girls behind your candy counter, as it surely helps to increase sales."
Do you think that's where Hooters originated?
Today I wrote:
"She ignored me and drew a cigarette from a crystal dish on the coffee table. The three of us watched as she wrapped her lips around it and handed me a gold table lighter."
Terrie
Travis, I think you're right. Many, many years ago, I downloaded some shareware to catalog my books. The guy called it "Bookware" and asked that if you enjoyed the software, you send him a book. He listed his favorite types of reading. I found the software very useful, and sent him a book.
I included my email in my note. (All of this had to be conducted through actual bookshops, snail mail, etc--this would have been 1992 or 1993...long before Amazon!) He emailed me and said that while software had been downloaded hundreds of times, and received dozens of five-star ratings, this was the first time anyone had ever sent him a book.
So I'm very interested in all the kinds of open source software and alternate publishing stuff going on. Greed vs. fairness. It's a battle.
Terrie --
It's disturbing to me that they could rank the candy girls on cleanliness. Wouldn't you assume they'd require ALL of them to be clean? I certainly wouldn't want to be buying candy from a sloven. But, god, I loved Woolworth's. I was desolate when they disappeared. Especially the one on 86th and 3rd, across from Papaya King. That one was awesome.
Okay, looks like my comment from hours ago is now missing. Try, try again...
Terrie- Awesome 2 for the fetishists of dirty fingernails.
Laura- Don't mention Papaya King w/o a Tropical Sunrise for me.
Travis- John Scalzi's doing a shareware short story right now, testing the "1000 true fans" theory, and reporting on the results. More info, plus How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story is here:
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=652
I believe sometimes it can work, sometimes no, and the more people try it, the better we'll understand why.
"no one but a minister would drag his wife to these places" -- great line!
My sentences are up.
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