Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 25, 2018

nice excuse

Just try not to write like Charles Dickens. Some of his sentences took up more than half a page of fine print. I remember as a lesson in English grammar trying to parse one of his sentences. And trying to fine subject and verb agreement was difficult to say the least. Writing in that stye of English, a short story can go on for many, many pages.

Either way, he’ll begin it with “It was a dark and stormy night.”

That’s a good enough reason.

The career of George R. R. Martin.

He’s going to write until he’s sheetless.

That’ll do it…

Authors can do that…. work on more than one thing simultaneously. J.R.R. Tolkien did it all the time, and yet still had comparatively little of it come out during his lifetime. The work he loved best, THE SILMARILLION, was left unfinished, much of it in disarray in handwritten and inconsistent notes. His son had to wade in and bring it all together into publishable form. In the meantime, the father had started many works of varying lengths: some relatively complete, some abandoned. Unlike Snoopy, at least he DID get a few major works out.

Snoopy probably found the sheet of paper and the typewriter at the local dump.

I suggest he write an essay.

LOL!!!!!

Maybe if he could use both sides of the sheet…

Since Snoopy always begins with “It was a dark and stormy night”, I thought it fun to quote the original sentence by Bulwer-Lytton. Here it is, in all it’s fulsomeness, “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

I do hope the Easter Beagle comes next Sunday!

Maybe a poem or two will work on one piece of paper.

Well, that explains it.

This reminds me of an old cartoon, I think from an issue of The New Yorker. It depicts a man banging away on the keys of his typewriter, with an unseen person who had just spoken to him from upstairs. The caption is: “Finish it? Why would I want to finish it?”

Snoopy needs to go to an office supply store