Harking back to my "weird" sense of humor, I simply can't resist blogging a quote from Mark Twain's famous essay critiquing "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses":
"The personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.
The personages in a tale, both alive and dead, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there."
Well, perhaps this criticism is a bit outdated now that we have The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Trueblood, etc. It's sometimes a bit difficult in our modern literature and other media to tell the difference between the living characters and the living dead!
If you don't know who James Fenimore Cooper was, better review your history of American literature. If you've never read any of his work, uh---hmmm---well, you are excused. Instead, see the latest movie made from his written material, " The Last of the Mohicans". And by the way, for Harry Potter fans, Jason Isaacs ( Lucius Malfoy ) plays the bad guy in that movie.
But if you don't know who Mark Twain was, shame on you---unless you exhibit a sufficient excuse for not knowing.
Keep on laughing; it will keep you young! Trust me.
MRTighe
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