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Quote: These Days of Rush and Hurry
Unfortunately, in these days of rush and hurry, a novelist works at a disadvantage. He must leap into the middle of his tale with as little delay as he would employ in boarding a moving tramcar. He must get off the mark with the smooth swiftness of a jack-rabbit surprised while lunching. Otherwise, people throw him aside and go out to picture palaces.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Keep in mind that Wodehouse wrote that in 1919—nearly a hundred years ago. Just imagine how much the public attention span has shortened and how much the pressure on the novelist to "leap into the middle" has increased since then! We're no longer jumping moving tramcars; we're chasing express trains.
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2 comments:
I've really got to read some P.G. Wodehouse. He sounds like a lark.
This is, alas, a tiresome requirement; but a requirement it is. Ho hum.
You really should! He's just hilarious. The first book of his I read was Right Ho, Jeeves, and I still think it's one of the best.
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