The idea of linking unpublished writers with reconstruction efforts has a Keynesian “multiplier” effect, according to David Simon, an economist at the University of Massachusetts-Seekonk. “If we can get underemployed writers–and believe me, they’re all underemployed–to crank out a short story collection at prevailing wages, then use it to fuel a waste-to-energy plant, we will ease unemployment and cut our dependence on foreign oil.”
Faulkner: “Thanks to my Nobel Prize winnings, I can afford to maintain my savage tan.”
St. Stephen is currently working on a three-volume family saga in the manner of William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County novels. “It’s a stream of consciousness novel told through the voice of Darrell Suggins, the feeble-minded product of inbreeding between the offspring of a morganatic marriage between a scion of the old Southern dynasty and a syphilitic prostitute,” he says. St. Stephens provided this reporter with a sample dependent clause from a sentence of his work-in-progress:
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