Literary Faire to Adopt Runway Approach
Dateline The Earl’s Parlor. The Wellington Leg Literary Faire, to be held this year during a waning moon, will adapt the runway approach according to embittered dogsbody Urquhart Depew. Depew, speaking off the record through an open window, reported that the committee members were divided over the concept, with attractive people in favor while the less attractive expressed gloom over the development. Depew, darkly handsome and moody, said he had no difficulty pitching agents from the runway. His author photo took first prize in last year’s Faire and he was offered a book contract by a Mrs. Greta Aznevour of the prestigious House of Greta GMBH. “I only had the photo last year,” Depew said. “This year I have the book.”
The Earl plans to wear a suit of armor and in all probability will be rolled into a ball and pushed down the runway. His performance of Papa Was a Rollingstone, adopted for French Horn, frightened many agents at last year’s event. “He has a sequel to Voltaire’s Miasma in manuscript,” confided Rear Admiral David Wells. Mr. Wells, chair of the Temperance Society, has entered a graphic novel in this year’s contest. “It’s a category killer,” he said. Although troubled by gout and a swollen knee, he vowed to be ready when the curtain goes up.
Prudentia Chalfont-Smythe will read from Her Lyrical Poetry during the opening ceremony. In preparaton for the event, DCI Borchardt and his flying squad have placed traffic cones along Great Jones Street from Visigoth Boulevard west to the onramp to the 405. After a driver spilled RC on her PC in her RV near the campus of USC, police are cracking down according to a WPC with the RCMP. “Like DC we’re concerned about RC on the PC.” Plans are on the QT for traffic control said a QC from HQ. Police cadets are relieved of PT until the AC is working again.