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Because I'm in a humorous mood:
Ozyfanidas
I met an editor from an SF house
Who said: Two vast and plotless tales of heroes
came in the mail. Next them, in the pile,
Half ripped, an illiterate scrawl whose errors
And stilted prose, and ignorance of basic sense
Tell that its author too much Tolkein read,
Which yet arrive, printed in countless fonts
The hand that plagiariased and the brain that fled
And in the cover letter these words appear
"My name is Ozyfandias, "Writer-man"
Read my works, best-sellers and despair!"
It would not fit the bin. Yet in the rest
of that collossal parcel, I'm unaware
Of hints to the return address.
--Francis Turner
This was posted at Baen's Bar about a year or so ago. (To access the Bar, the discussion board of Baen's Books, click on the link up top. You'll need to create a username and password to get to it.)
On other news, the mower has been acting horribly for the last week, and then it died and we were sure it was permanent. They took it into the shop to look at it, and it worked fine for them, and is now running smoother than it has in a long time. Without them actually doing anything to it. Go figure.
Ozyfanidas
I met an editor from an SF house
Who said: Two vast and plotless tales of heroes
came in the mail. Next them, in the pile,
Half ripped, an illiterate scrawl whose errors
And stilted prose, and ignorance of basic sense
Tell that its author too much Tolkein read,
Which yet arrive, printed in countless fonts
The hand that plagiariased and the brain that fled
And in the cover letter these words appear
"My name is Ozyfandias, "Writer-man"
Read my works, best-sellers and despair!"
It would not fit the bin. Yet in the rest
of that collossal parcel, I'm unaware
Of hints to the return address.
--Francis Turner
This was posted at Baen's Bar about a year or so ago. (To access the Bar, the discussion board of Baen's Books, click on the link up top. You'll need to create a username and password to get to it.)
On other news, the mower has been acting horribly for the last week, and then it died and we were sure it was permanent. They took it into the shop to look at it, and it worked fine for them, and is now running smoother than it has in a long time. Without them actually doing anything to it. Go figure.
