Gothic.net Community - View Single Post

roserougesang · 06-09-2006, 04:59 AM

Currently reading 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories' by Washington Irving. The two supposedly best stories in it are Legend of Sleepy Hollow (obviously) and Rip Van Winkle but I think of the very interesting ones is 'The Mutability of Literature'. During the short story a man is having an intelligent conversation with a Quarto tome about the mutability of literature. At the end of the story, when the tome stops talking, the man is not able to tell whether the conversation was real or in his mind. Very interesting.

I strongly recommend to everybody here who enjoys intelligent short stories.

06-09-2006, 04:59 AM	#747
roserougesang Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Down ze wabbit hole Posts: 752	Currently reading 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories' by Washington Irving. The two supposedly best stories in it are Legend of Sleepy Hollow (obviously) and Rip Van Winkle but I think of the very interesting ones is 'The Mutability of Literature'. During the short story a man is having an intelligent conversation with a Quarto tome about the mutability of literature. At the end of the story, when the tome stops talking, the man is not able to tell whether the conversation was real or in his mind. Very interesting. I strongly recommend to everybody here who enjoys intelligent short stories. __________________ O loneliness, O hopelessness To search the ends of time, For there is in all the world No greater love than mine. -Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire- Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!