"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
Ghost of Mark Twain, here --
On this date in 1719, ROBINSON CRUSOE was published.
Though the book is Daniel Defoe's most well-known work, he actually didn't write fiction until he was in his sixties.
So you struggling writers out there don't give up and experiment with other genres, don't you know?
The book is based on the experiences of a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk.
The iconic method of execution in the French Revolution got its start a few years earlier with the execution of a highwayman named Nicolas J Pelletier.
Eyewitness accounts report that the crowd at the execution was dissatisfied with the guillotine since they found it too "clinically effective," and therefore not entertaining enough.
But folks got their heads together and come up with Reality TV and most seem pleased with the results!
Now some folks used claymation to make a cartoon of my "THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER" in 1986.
I worked on the book periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910.
The body of work is a serious social commentary, addressing my ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race."
This here cartoon was banned from TV. And truth to tell, children, it rather creeps me out my own self!
Watch at your own peril ...
I refused a book of yours and for this I stand without competitor as the prize ass of the nineteenth century."
and said it was a long delayed revenge but was sweeter to me than any other that could be devised;
and always in new and increasingly cruel and inhuman ways,
Thinking on what author to pick for V that's got the same sharp wit as me --
Oh, don't go glaring at me like that Gore! When we go at one another, the sparks fly, don't you know?
I pick you, Gore -- Gore Vidal!
“The unfed mind devours itself.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.”
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” ― Gore Vidal