Posted by Andy Morley on 06/30/00 from 62.137.41.100 via proxy webcacheH14a.cache.pol.co.uk:
In Reply to: Re: Parody - someone will eventually posted by Prue Eckett on June 29, 2000 at 22:31:26:
> I had never thought of that angle. My humorous writing isn't
> developed enough
That's probably a good thing if you want to inhabit places like Tarboard. Too much humour here can provoke geriatric toy-throwing from virtual bath chairs.
> as yet but I'm sure that in the absence of a relenting of
> permission by the Ransome Estate, someone will do it.
I risk being censored by Ian for mentioning TARS (ulp..!!) but would make the point that an author's literary following is as much a part of their oeuvre as the books themselves. After all, books that do not have a following can hardly be considered literature - they're just someone's private scribblings. And where would Terry Pratchett be without the wierdos who you see reading him on the train..?
Now, if you want a parody, where could you find a more productive lode than the characters who inhabit TARS..? I've said in this context before that Tom Sharpe could have made wonderful riotous fun of this most eccentricly English collection of oddities, had his writing not fallen off lately. Now, alas, he seems to have become more suitable to be a TARS member than its satirist. So why don't you try..?
> Even if they relent, someone will eventually do it. There is no
> such thing as literary purity any more, whether for the greats
> or not.
"Literary purity"... (umfle-humfph-splutter-oh-my-oh-my!!!)
Now where ever did you pick up THAT idea..?
Cheers,
Andy Morley