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
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