Classic Literature

Recently I've been reading a lot of classic literature. A Tale of Two Cities(1859), George Orwell's 1984(1949), and Junk in the Badonkadonk(1923).  That's just the list!  I could go on.

My goal is to write George Orwell's 1949, and get in Jules Verne's Time Machine, so I can write it in 1984 and have a good chuckle about extravagant means of wasting time.((I'm perfectly aware that H.G. Wells wrote a novel "The Time Machine."  Jules Verne had a real one, and that's the one I intend to use.  Go ahead ask him, he'll tell you.  I'll wait here.))

Reading all of these books though has been teaching me a lot.  For one thing, to quote a particularly cogent and well phrased novel, "If the red is rose and there is a gate surrounding it, if inside is let in and there places change then certainly something is upright."  Before Tender Buttons I had no idea what it would mean if the red was rose.  I hate to say it, but my mind never even went on to the next logical assumption that there would be a gate surrounding it.  What a shallow and pedantic brain I have.

Also, it's a fact that Charlotte's Web was originally going to be Raleigh's Web, but after too much lying, cheating, and stealing at the bars Raleigh got sent away up north, and Charlotte became the main character.  You can look it up if you want.  I found that information at http://www.ifiwereawriter.com/2012/08/classic-literature.html.  The guy who writes everything, son of the guy who read some things and wrote some other things, son of the guy who made some telephone calls, seems really intelligent, and does a lot of hard research.((I also learned that familial relationships are quite impotent in ye old thymey bookkes.))

Also, another little known author fact is that Fyodor Dostoevsky tried publishing a number of titles under the moniker "Unotoevsky" but was sued by a certain card game for trademark violation.  Thankfully the Toevsky Card Company went out of business.  For his second attempt at publishing he changed his name prefix to the word, "Dos."  Which is Spanish for, "Failed at publishing the first time or two."

Many people, I fear, are of the opinion that classic books are, "going the way of the dodo."  But it's better than going the way of the don'tdon't if you ask me.  And to those people, I say, "this."  Then I walk away quite smugly.  They don't know what hit them, and I got to be nonsensical.  A win for everyone, specifically everyone who is me.