As long-time readers know, I love the story The Repairer of Reputations, by Robert W. Chambers. I wanted to write an analysis of it, but it’s such a carefully-constructed story that I didn’t know how to do it without quoting huge sections at length.
Then I had an idea. The story is in the public domain. (It was published in 1895.) So, I thought, why not post the story with my comments included? That will be an easy way for people to read the story and for me to comment on specific things that I think make it work so well.
So that’s what I did. It’s so long that I put it on its own page rather than do it as a blog post. You can read it here. I hope it’s useful to anyone who wants to write weird fiction.
The annotations aren’t working for me!
Darn! Are you using a desktop or a mobile device?
I’m on my laptop
I will look into it right away… thanks very much for letting me know!
No problem! 🙂
Ok, I’m pretty sure I now know what to do to fix this, and I think when it’s done the annotations will work on a lot more devices–even tablets and phones. I’ll let you know once I’ve updated the code.
Thanks again for letting me know about this–I really appreciate it!
You’re welcome!
Ok, I have updated the code. Have another try at it now, if you like.
Thanks!
Annotations are fine on my laptop. But instead of writing a comment longer than your post and the story, I’ll just say that if Trump could/would read this, he’d say FAKE NEWS.
I think Trump would just say that he could build much bigger and more tremendous and gold-plated lethal chambers.
If Fox has said it first.