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BOOKS NO ONE EVER WROTE
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Are you a writer of novels? Do you sometimes run out of ideas for a new book or film concept? (Hollywood script writers take note….) Then you’ve stumbled on the right Blog! Here is an unabridged, alphabetical list of books that have been alluded to in novels by published writers, but have never actually been written. You don’t even have to worry about copyright infringement! Feel free to steal and plagiarize at will!
HERE ARE A SAMPLE OF TITLES CREATED BY REAL AUTHORS WHO INVENTED THEM AS A PART OF THEIR STORY:
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BAINBRIDGE, Mary: Winter Swan
—from Lisa Goldstein’s “Reader’s Guide”
BANDINI, Arturo: “The Little Dog Laughed,” “The Long Lost Hills,” untitled novel (“the story of Vera Rivkin”)
—from John Fante’s Ask the Dust
BANE, Joseph Cameron:
Cabot’s House
Lips That Could Kiss
Ruthpen Hallburton
The Wind at Morning
“others, others”—from Lawrence Block’s “With a Smile for the Ending,” in Enough Rope
BANION, Gerry: Sageknights of Darkhorn
—from Steve Hely’s How I Became a Famous Novelist
BANKS, Rosie M.: Mervyn Keene, Clubman; Only a Factory Girl; ‘Twas Once in May
—from P. G. Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
—from P. G. Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
BARBECUE-SMITH, Mr.: Pipe-Lines to the Infinite
—from Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
BARR, Frank Walker:
Mythos and Tyrannos
Time’s Body—from John Crowley‘s Aegypt cycle
BARTH, Septon: Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyvern: Their Unnatural History
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons
BASSETT, Clarence: The Bassett Family
—from Ross Macdonald’s The Barbarous Coast
BEAMISH, Alan: A Pox on the Box: Memoirs of a Disillusioned Broadcaster (Cape, 1993)
—from Jonathan Coe’s The Winshaw Legacy
BELDECAR: History of the Rhoynish Wars
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords
—from George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords
BELZNER, Zalman: Beyond the Pale, Yeshiva Bokher
—from Joseph Epstein’s “Beyond the Pale”
BENDRIX, Maurice:
The Ambitious Host
The Crowned Image
The Grave on the Water-Front—from Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair
BIEDELMAN, Roz: Trampled Ivy
—from Heidi Julavits’s The Uses of Enchantment
BLAIR, Alan: I Pity I
—from Jonathan Ames’s Wake Up, Sir!
—from Jonathan Ames’s Wake Up, Sir!
BLAKE, Royden: “The Necklace of Malvio d’Alfi,” “The Wreck of the S.S. Lorelei,” “The King of the Trojans,” “The Lost Girdle of Venus”
—from John Cheever’s “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear”
FREE YOURSELF TO BE YOURSELF
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1001_Things_To_Do_While_You’re_Dead — An INTERVIEW with Lawrence R. Spencer
BE YOURSELF FOR A CHANGE.
“Relax. As a disembodied spirit you don’t have to hang around with people any more so you don’t have to try to impress anyone. In human society you are usually expected to look good, smell good, be good, do good and exhibit other behavior that may not come naturally to you.
For example, if you don’t take a bath for a few weeks your body will stink like a bag of rotten meat – which is essentially what it is. As a spirit you don’t have to shower, shave, brush your teeth, eat, go to work, pee or perform any of those nasty habits.
The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) said, “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
So, forget all that stuff you were taught about “now I’m supposed to…”. Do what pleases you.”
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Excerpt from 1,001 Things To Do While You’re Dead: A Dead Persons’ Guide To Living, by Lawrence R. Spencer
MEMORIES DAY
INVASION FROM THE EAST, AGAIN
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THE END OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE WAS CAUSED BY EVENTS IN CHINA IN THE FIFTH CENTURY A.D.. IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN….
Oriental people and their cultures are the most ancient on Earth. The “Eastern” civilization (according to “western historians”) was the primary force behind the collapse of Western civilization, i.e. all civilization west of the Ural Mountains, including The Roman Empire. When the Huns (nomadic warriors on horseback) were forced out of China they moved into Europe and vanquished everyone they encountered. The Visigoths were one of the tribes most effected, who in turn, repeatedly invaded and pillaged The Roman Empire, sacked Rome, wiped out the Roman Army and killed the Roman Emperor.
Western Civilization (Europe, The U.S and the British Empire) are the direct descendants of the Roman Empire.
“The People’s Republic of China (PRC), is the world’s most-populous country with a population of over 1.3 billion. The East Asian state covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles) in total area and is the world’s second-largest country by land area,[14] and the third- or fourth-largest in total area, depending on the definition of total area.
China has become the world’s fastest-growing major economy. As of 2012, it is the world’s second-largest economy, after the United States, by both nominal GDP andpurchasing power parity (PPP) and is also the world’s largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. Onper capita terms, China ranked 90th by nominal GDP and 91st by GDP (PPP) in 2011, according to the IMF. China is arecognized nuclear weapons state and has the world’s largest standing army, with the second-largest defense budget. In 2003, China became the third nation in the world, after the former Soviet Union and the United States, to independently launch a successful manned space mission.” (Source: Wikipedia.org)
The events of history are cyclical. China, and The Barbarians (International Banks), are at the gates of Western civilization once again. China’s admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, carried with it requirements for further economic liberalization and deregulation. China’s ongoing economic transformation has had a profound impact not only on China but on the Western world.
“The Migration Period, also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period of intensified human migration in Europe from about 400 to 800 CE. It began when the Huns were driven out of the “Far East” by the Chinese. This period marked the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Migrations were catalyzed by profound changes within theRoman Empire and on its “barbarian frontier”. The migrants who came first were Germanic tribes such as the Goths,Vandals, Lombards, Suebi, Frisii and Franks; they were later pushed west by the Huns,The Chinese The Huns may have stimulated the Great Migration, a contributing factor in the collapse of the western Roman Empire. They formed a unified empire under Attila the Hun, who died in 453. The Barbarian invasions of the fifth century were triggered by the destruction of the Gothic kingdoms by the Huns in 372-375. The city of Rome was captured and looted by the Visigoths in 410 and by the Vandals in 455.” (Source: Wikipedia.org)