shadow_archmagi
2010-10-16, 04:25 PM
I read it some time ago. It was a short story as part of a collection and it alternated between this cheesy gothic novel
(Suddenly the butlers face contorted and he fell forward his fine black coat dissolving as he went. She walked over to the pile and dipped a single finger in it and raised it to full red lips. "By the look of things I'd say he'd been dead for over one thousand years." she said to the strong man who had slain the creature, his well-muscled frame exuding the heady scent of honest labor) sort of thing
and then it cuts to this Poe-like author sitting in some gothic office (possibly at the top of a tall tower in a rainstorm) and trying to write and a Raven comes in and the author tells him that he's been TRYING to "Tell it like it is" and simply not enjoying his work any more. The raven says "Have you ever considered writing fiction?"
The writer is astonished. The story then switches to a modern-day, mundane setting.
(The man loved his wife in the way he loved the toaster for working every day. It was a quiet affection and for her simply not enough. He could not fathom why, one day, she simply sat down at the table and started crying.)
The writer then declares that this fiction business is wonderful!
The joke being, of course, that the writer and the audience have opposite ideas about what is historical and what is fiction. I can't for the life of me remember where I *saw* it though.
(Suddenly the butlers face contorted and he fell forward his fine black coat dissolving as he went. She walked over to the pile and dipped a single finger in it and raised it to full red lips. "By the look of things I'd say he'd been dead for over one thousand years." she said to the strong man who had slain the creature, his well-muscled frame exuding the heady scent of honest labor) sort of thing
and then it cuts to this Poe-like author sitting in some gothic office (possibly at the top of a tall tower in a rainstorm) and trying to write and a Raven comes in and the author tells him that he's been TRYING to "Tell it like it is" and simply not enjoying his work any more. The raven says "Have you ever considered writing fiction?"
The writer is astonished. The story then switches to a modern-day, mundane setting.
(The man loved his wife in the way he loved the toaster for working every day. It was a quiet affection and for her simply not enough. He could not fathom why, one day, she simply sat down at the table and started crying.)
The writer then declares that this fiction business is wonderful!
The joke being, of course, that the writer and the audience have opposite ideas about what is historical and what is fiction. I can't for the life of me remember where I *saw* it though.