![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “This extraordinary novel defies categorization. To read our full thoughts, check out “Comma, comma, comma, cheese and rice!” My brother and I joke that we took The Comma House on the Semicolon Borderland and turned it into The House on the Borderland.Įven Terry Pratchett, in his review of the book, noted how wearisome the excessive punctuation could be: “The language is that stilted, labored form that makes most elderly horror writing such a tedious business to read.”īut, as you can see from the example above, our alterations are subtle and, we believe, vastly improve the flow of the story. Updated: “I am not superstitious, but I have ceased to deny that things happen in this old house-things that I cannot explain therefore, I must ease my mind by writing down an account of them, to the best of my ability though, should this, my diary, ever be read when I am gone, the readers will but shake their heads and be the more convinced that I was mad.” Original: “I am not superstitious but I have ceased to deny that things happen in this old house-things that I cannot explain and, therefore, I must needs ease my mind, by writing down an account of them, to the best of my ability though, should this, my diary, ever be read when I am gone, the readers will but shake their heads, and be the more convinced that I was mad.” Here’s but one example of our Heathening: ![]()
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