Writing Secrets Revealed!
Wellington Leg: The Earl of Watership Down has been named Writer in Residence at Mansfield-Big School, the snooty private college in leafy Henley Hornbrook. The Earl defeated several other candidates in tryouts held in Fedorko Stadium recently adorned with lights after years of darkness.
The Earl is an overhand writer one literary scout noted. He’ll sometimes drop his shoulder and write three quarter arm displaying an array of release points and arm angles. Thus a reader, lulled by many run on sentences, is suddenly decked by four seam prose that comes out of nowhere. “It’s terribly exciting” said Red “Low Down” Coffey of the Mansfield-Big staff. “We needed a little chin music.”
Students at Mansfield-Big spent the afternoon shagging adverbs. Many hope to imitate the earl’s brobdignagian efforts at self-promotion while others simply wish the curriculum’s “rowing to Australia” requirement be modified. Scientists in Wellington Leg are divided over the question ” does Australia exist” after last winter’s episode involving a rubber duck, the Southern Cross, and fair winds following.
Others resent the post modernist thrust of the earl’s “On Linoleum” series. “It’s so Warhol,” complained Greta of Longchamps. “And why Steely Dan in the elevators?”
The obscure literary reference is lost on many Red agreed. The earl was observed beneath a golf cart in straightaway center field for much of the day. “Busy hands are happy hands,” he said.