A Writer’s Notes #18
This week, a quiz. Which writer entered this warning at the beginning of one of his novels?
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
a) Larry McMurtry
b) Dave Barry
c) Mark Twain
d) T.C. Boyle
e) Carl Hiaasen
If you answered “c,” you’re a literary genius…for a day. It was Mark Twain, in Huckleberry Finn. I guess he just couldn’t resist.