Date: November 27th, 2005 4:29 PM Author: White Locale
that there would be interest in pensive's memoirs among publishers is obvious. let's hope media kid can prevail on his family to go ahead with this project. if they pass on it, any of several other publishers will doubtless pick it up. but with media kid having already made some progress editing the manuscript, it would be unfortunate if there were a discontinuity with someone else taking it over.
Date: November 27th, 2005 4:38 PM Author: White Locale
too interesting, in fact. it seems that there are misgivings inside the publishing industry. essentially, some have suggested that the material might just be too controversial.
Date: November 27th, 2005 4:57 PM Author: White Locale
publishable memoirs will tend to sacrifice the author's privacy. as do un-publishible ones, as you are no doubt aware.
the thing about claiming to be writing a book, mike, is that anyone can do it. and your cover story for not getting published, while perhaps original, is incohrent. you're what's known as a defamation-proof plaintiff: the true information you have revealed about yourself, coupled with your generally repulsive presence, have yielded a reputation so abysmally low that no damage can be done to it. pause for a moment and consider that you purport to be writing a personal reflection on being teased to the breaking point in college and attending a "top-15" graduate program as the latest installment in your failed quest to inspire something other than disgust in girls and be regarded as unusually smart. you are as woeful as poetic dreamer.
Like I said, I doubt that he's going to publish the book, for his reasons, not ours.
Also, you completely misunderstand what happened to him at college. He wasn't "teased", he was stalked. As in, people calling his room at 3:00 am, attempting to break into his computer, trying to steal his credit card information, and about twenty other things (most of which were corroborated) so disgusting and immature that they would amaze you.
Date: November 27th, 2005 5:12 PM Author: White Locale
at least you've stepped back into character.
pensive, for his part, is not a sympathetic protagonist. leaving aside that stealing credit card information doesn't "amaze" me, anyone would be hard pressed to care that pensive had to take remedial actions like turning off the ringer on his phone, getting a new visa card, and twenty other similarly prosaic things.
people revel in the fact that they are not him. that's about it. even you seem to be tending that way.
Date: November 27th, 2005 5:26 PM Author: White Locale
he would be obligated to pay, at most, $50 per card, a fee that is generally waived by the credit card company. and in that someone else would possess these "embarrassing" items, he wouldn't be at all associated with them. (which isn't to say that people don't assume, anyway, that he owns the standard possessions of a lonely, sexless person.)
i'm having a difficult time envisioning the bidding war for the movie rights to this book. and i'm becoming a little concerned that the book's editor hasn't been around enough to know that a lost credit card isn't quite apocalypse now, for either the financial or personal life of the card holder.
Date: November 27th, 2005 6:25 PM Author: Comical out-of-control church building
How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Gotta, gotta nice litte story you're working on there? Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Gotta story brewing there? Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh? Yea, talking about that 3 years ago. Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah? No, no, you deserve some time off.