| | Okay, open any book you have on hand to the page past the title page. You know the one I'm thinking of, with the Library of Congress information and the legal blurb, and the copyright date.
They're all pretty boring right? You never read them do you?
I picked up Lemony Snicket's the Unauthorized Biography and turned to that page:
No part of the book may be used, reproduced, destroyed, tampered with, or eaten without written permission, except in the case of brief, possibly coded quotations embedded in critical articles, reviews and subpoenas. Allegedly printed in the United States of America. For information, address HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, although the people at this publishing house have no idea where the documents enclosed in this book came from. If you recognize yourself in any of the photographs or illustrations in the book you find yourself in Very Frightening Danger and/or slightly embarrassed but there is nothing you can do about it. Please note that the author has been called a fraud, a criminal, a bestseller, a corpse, a fictional character, an unreliable narrator, an objective flaneur, an embattled gentleman, a magnetic field, an arsonist, and late for dinner by an odd number of dubious authorities. Send help at once. All rights reserved. Wouldn't you rather read about ponies?
This made my day
posted by Amber at 5:57 PM
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