Narrative Explorers Mugs

Danae's Prescient Auto-Biography: '...My prescient autobiography is a publisher's dream...no need for fact-checking!'

Man reading a book which has recaps & trailers like a TV show

Chamisso's 'Peter Schlemihl' - Peter Sells His Shadow

'No, you're looking for St. Peter, the fellow sitting over there. I'm the Omniscient Narrator.'

"I've modified tonight's story to guard against 'the narrative fallacy'."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

Dorothy, the lion, and the scarecrow, are suddenly confronted by the tin man of Oz.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

"I'm after the history section."

'Mummy, the review of this book was more interesting.'

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"But you didn't say they had to make sense - you just told us to write a thousand words a day."

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

'He's narrating it, I just know it.'

Modern History: Last Year/Last Month/Last Week/Yesterday.

"Oh, you haven’t seen holiday drama ‘till you’ve met our little family."

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Toni Morrison

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

Reading room

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

"They're perfect astronauts. Fast velocity followed by a long, slow pace."

"Tell us again — a little less graphic."

John Galsworthy

Ilyasah Shabazz

'I can't talk to my wife - all she says is `Baaah! Baaah!`!

“I’ve got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here’s your sandwich”

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