Ueber Agents Flock to the Leg
Dateline Wellington Leg: news that the earl is free of his chimney has resulted in overbookings at local hotels. Ms. Heather DeMedici, an intern with Druidical & Literary also chairs the Hospitality Bureau. She reports that rooms in Wellington Leg, Goth, Henley Hornbrook, and Carthago Nova are filling rapidly. The reason? “Literary agents,” says Heather. “There are dozens of them in the area.”
Godwin Attentionspan, senior commander of the reading auxiliary deplored the assault: “The earl’s ridiculous careerism has brought a plague upon us.” Mrs. Waltraut Frothingmunster agreed: “First it was those hogs of his. Now this.”
Not everyone is complaining however. Hotelier Wilfredo Tagesblatt is delighted. “We’ve never had the opportunity to host a major literary festival. The manuscript lottery event is sold out. So are the classes dealing with ‘Don’t forget that memoire’ and ‘I Can’t Remember Where I was Yesterday, let alone When I Bedded the Dowager Princess.”
The Princess, who predicted a big game from Jake Delhomme in yesterday’s NFL playoff, resents the implication: “I never slept with Godwin Attentionspan or any of that crew,” she said. Her memoir, Broadway Joe and Me is being proofread by the Earl. John Dos Passos and TS Elliot figure prominently in the explosive first draft. Geraldo Riviera reporting.