A Thousand, Thousand Slimy Things

[numbat]

I'm a genius. No, don't laugh, I am. Have you though of an easy way to make it onto every best-seller list in the English speaking world? No, thought not. Well I have. And it's dead simple too. Now, as you know our old mate Stephen R. Donaldson has slipped his guards and promised to not only see a new Thomas Covenant trilogy published but to have

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[cpt_buggernuts]

"The trick then is to use books not normally read all the way though"

But surely this is just going to end in trying to Donaldsonise Donaldson and collapsing in a puddle of their own recursiveness?

[cpt_buggernuts]

end in everyone trying to... Missing word, sorry.

[numbat]

Probably not everyone though, indeed I suspect it wouldn't take more than a clench or two for nearly all those who attempt this task to retreat to where they can lick the wounded places in their hearts. What I'm suggesting isn't for the light-hearted, despite my claims that it should be easy.

[the_gardener]

Not nearly Donaldsonese enough. Where's all the stroking of his inner clenching, for instance?

[numbat]

Bloody hell, you're a hard taskmaster. It was just one short extract after all, I can hardly be expected to get every possible option into it. Besides, I was very careful to not use any term which Donaldson had already made his own as it would be too easy to trot out such overused (by the Donmeister anyway) words such as clench.

[animoose]

I can't help thinking that a Donaldson-Lovecraft cross-over has potential. He clenched his odious oblong box of disturbing size.

[numbat]

It's perhaps a good thing that the likes of Lin Carter or August Derleth never had this though.