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“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself” Awesome Quotecategory: Citing Another'Most Overdue Manuscript. Although many writers have been known to be late with manuscripts, and the dialogue between editors and writers can sometimes reach a fevered pitch of cordial dispute, the lateness of Gerald Frome's celebrated audit of the Reading Catheral repairs of 1364 took 640 years to reach the publishers. Gerald's successive ancestors cited many reasons over the delay, such as not having enough ink, the wrong sort of vellum, noisy peacocks and the dissolution of the monasteries. The descendants of the original publishers who commissioned the work were overjoyed to finally receive the beautifully illuminated manuscript handwritten in copperplate and bound in leather, and returned it with a note saying that they “totally loved it” but suggesting the emphasis of the work be moved away from a spider-vaulted North Arcade suffering from subsidence, and more towards a single career woman obsessed with boyfriends and her weight.' - The Bumper Book of Berkshire Records, 2004 edition [Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear, 2006, Hodder&Stoughton] |
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youd think
no seriously - it was another great book at one point I was sitting in the bus (going to parents house) and I was laughing out loud
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did the snorting/giggling/laughing on the bus bit with that one :o)
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How good is it?
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there are more thursdays than you can count - and goliath is back
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