breakthrough?
Besides my first chapter perhaps being called "Absurd Little Bird" because of the song the Von Trapp children sing about the cuckoo clock in the Sound of Music, I've found another famous reference to the cuckoo clock by Orson Welles in 1949 film noir The Third Man (based on a Graham Greene book--doog, who the heck is that guy?!?).
Perhaps this can be my beginning quote in my novel (which is like 99% plotless at this point in time--hey, notice how I am getting more loquacious already? November must be afoot!!) like some real novelists do:
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Wiki says that the Germans created it, but then the quote wouldn't be as good, right?
BRILLIANT. What society would produce a satanic cuckoo clock? Things to ponder.
Perhaps this can be my beginning quote in my novel (which is like 99% plotless at this point in time--hey, notice how I am getting more loquacious already? November must be afoot!!) like some real novelists do:
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Wiki says that the Germans created it, but then the quote wouldn't be as good, right?
BRILLIANT. What society would produce a satanic cuckoo clock? Things to ponder.
posted by Keets | 12:42 PM
1 Comments:
Graham Greene is Graham Greene. Read Brighton Rock.
This sounds like a good beginning ("a very good place to start!") Do you have a plot yet?
Make it something like the Knights Templar who created the clock. Some underground cult fanatics who have been around for thousands of years. :)
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