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Sep. 10th, 2005 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thalia_seawoodI've discovered this website via fernwithy's journal. It's Mark Twain's take on Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. Reading it made me laugh out loud.
A little excerpt:
Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred other handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leatherstocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series.
Too bad Mark Twain isn't living in our time. His comment about Cooper gives me the impression he'd have loved the internet and kept a livejournal. :-) His criticism about Cooper he'd likely tag with the comment "headdesk".
fernwithy's journal. It's Mark Twain's take on Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. Reading it made me laugh out loud.A little excerpt:
Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred other handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. In fact, the Leatherstocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series.
Too bad Mark Twain isn't living in our time. His comment about Cooper gives me the impression he'd have loved the internet and kept a livejournal. :-) His criticism about Cooper he'd likely tag with the comment "headdesk".
