Moronic Feedback

[Octavian]

You've got my support, banditman.

If nothing else you've brought the thread back on track.

But I do agree with Perdita. Shooting her is a tad over the top!

You could have stamped your foot, flounced your hair and then said "I'm not a wimp."

Octavian

 

[banditman]

You've got my support, banditman.

If nothing else you've brought the thread back on track.

But I do agree with Perdita. Shooting her is a tad over the top!

You could have stamped your foot, flounced your hair and then said "I'm not a wimp."

Octavian

that's right ... I'm Orson Wells!

incidentally, Octavian, I noticed in the Public Feedback for one of your stories that GoodWifey is one of your detractors. she also advised me to go out and find a real woman when I posted my first story.

that two-timing slut.

 

[Octavian]

banditman
Now you've gone and spoilt everything!
I really thought that GoodWifey's invective was mine and mine alone!

It just goes to show you can't trust anyone on Literotica!

BTW I have only got one detractor so far! You referring to them in the plural is bad for my image!

Octavian

 

[banditman]

my apologies. you write very well though, so I'm sure you'll have many more detractors in the near future.

 

[Octavian]

banditman

No need to apologise.
I shouldn't have said anything. I was just hitting out at everyone because GoodWifey had betrayed me.

Octavian

 

[SlickTony]

What is wrong with these people? Do they believe the characters in the stories actually exist?

The other night my husband and I were watching this documentary on Frank T. Hopkins, the long-distance rider portrayed by Viggo Mortenson in the movie Hidalgo, which investigated all the holes and discrepancies in the man's bio, and there was even a certain amount of doubt as to whether Frank T. Hopkins was even real.

Personally, I think it would be an absolute hoot--a magnificent jape, as they used to say--to develop a character, an object or an event that was fictional but took on a life of its own so that people actually thought it was real.

I did accomplish this once, albeit on a Literotica scale--some guy who'd appreciated "The Ice Cream Cone" did a search for the short film of the same name which was featured in my story. I was flattered and figured it was a sign that the story had worked.

H.P. Lovecraft's repeated references to the grimoire called Al Azif or The Necronomicon so impressed many of his readers that some of them thought the book was real, and then later on ads playing on this belief began appearing in the backs of booksellers' catalogues. Someone I knew in Natchez, MS swore that there was a copy in a secret, sealed room in the Alcorn State College library.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

H.P. Lovecraft's repeated references to the grimoire called Al Azif or The Necronomicon so impressed many of his readers that some of them thought the book was real, and then later on ads playing on this belief began appearing in the backs of booksellers' catalogues. Someone I knew in Natchez, MS swore that there was a copy in a secret, sealed room in the Alcorn State College library.

I think someone actually did write a books and call it "The Necronomicon", trading on the Lovecraft legend, and I think I might actually have a copy somewhere. I know that there have been a bunch of fictinal books attributed to Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University.

Kurt Vonnegut created the alter ego Kilgore Trout, a seller of aluminum storm doors and writer of sci-fi shlock. Among Trout's reputed works were "The Naughty Little Bunny" and "Venus on the Half Shell", and shortly after Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" came out, someone actually wrote "Venus of the Half Shell" under the name of Kilgore Trout. I bought a copy thinking it might be Vonnegut under a pseudonym, but it wasn't, and the book wasn't very good.

---dr.M.

 

[SlickTony]

someone actually did write a books and call it "The Necronomicon", trading on the Lovecraft legend, and I think I might actually have a copy somewhere.

Ha! I got hold of one of those so-called Necronomica. What spells there were in there would not summon Nyarlathotep or mighty Yog-Sothoth or even raise a zit on the nose of a rival, but worked beautifully against insomnia.

 

[TexasShyGuy]

While I don't doubt that each category may have someone who disagrees with it, my thought was that the stories dealing with infidelity would be the most likely to create a "vigorous" reaction.

However, you received the mail that you did, and I haven't, so I'll defer to your experience.

That being so, one would think that even with the sorry state of our public education today, people could distinguish between fiction and non-fiction. I guess there are more lunatics and disfunctionals out there than I would have thought.


edit: When are they going to make a keyboard that enters the words I meant to type?

They do have a use and a place in Society. You have to have sheep to feed the wolves. Or if you prefer you have to have people like these to appreciate the ones who are not like them.

 

[Octavian]

something else, too

Now that I have had a chance to reflect on the feedback that started this thread, I wonder if perhaps I was a tad unkind to Mr Anonymous.

OK, he is a bit of a moron to believe that fictional characters exist and yes it is cowardly to hide behind anonymity.
Maybe his language was somewhat intemperate; perhaps that is the fault of his parents.
His sensibilities are clearly offended by the genre; possibly it was insufficiently identified.

So having read his feedback again I say

'Go to Hell, Arsehole.
You should never end a sentence with a fucking preposition!'


Octavian