King: gosh joanne sure has been trending a while on twitter
King: like, for almost a week straight
Poe: oo
Poe: er
Poe: that's
King: yeah that's not good
Poe: that's very bad
Poe: i don't think it's healthy
Poe: it does things to you
Vladimir Nabokov: ok i got a story
Nabokov: but i'm only gonna tell it if you all promise not to be mad at me
Poe: we promise
Nabokov: you promise?
Nabokov: you all have to say it
Poe: we all promise
King: sure we promise
Barker: promise
Nabokov: swear it
Vladimir Nabokov: ok this is the story of the guy who raised his own child bride
Piers Anthony: why would you say something so controversial and yet so brave
King: wow jeez um
Nabokov: but before you all get mad at me
Nabokov: keep in mind that the narrator is unreliable
King: i dunno this really seems kinda...
Nabokov: unreliable, goddamnit! unreliable!
King: wow this story seems pretty out there
King: and you endorse this kind of thing?
Nabokov: unreliable, dammit! i said unreliable!
King: cuz i don't think we can approve of this
Nabokov: oh my GOD
Nabokov: you all can't understand this! this is REAL literature
JK Rowling: exactly
Nabokov: see? she gets it
Rowling: a beautifully tragic love ssstory
Nabokov: yes a bea
Nabokov:
Nabokov: what
Rowling: yeah i thought it was a wonderful love ssstory
King:
Poe:
Koontz:
Lovecraft:
Barker:
Rowling: why are you looking at me like that?
Rowling: iss it becausse you hate women?
She WHAT.
Poor Nabokov. This was exactly what he feared would happen with his story.
Okay maybe not quite the fear of JKR putting character names into her story (seriously‽) but still.
For someone so obsessed with "dangerous predatory men" and "lost little girls" she sure doesn't grok Lolita.
Nabokov: we all write awful things, it doesn't mean we endorse them
Nabokov: for instance, clive, you wrote hellraiser, but obviously you don't believe one should surrender themselves to sadomasochism at any cost
Barker:
Barker:
Poe: you could not have chosen a worse example
Barker: I'M THINKING
Oh, did you not know? Yeah, looking back its very obvious, but easy to overlook as a kid. Which is what makes it so dangerous. litreactor.com/columns/them...
There was an amazing This American Life episode where a 15-year-old boy runs away to live with him (he is arrives and is advised to go home).
He doesn’t do anything untoward, but since I heard about this I can’t enjoy the episode the way I used to!
www.thisamericanlife.org/470/transcript
