Interim

Huh, this week got away from me. Turns out planning for an overseas trip while working overtime doesn’t give you too much time to work on that essay you had planned about The Lord of The Rings and war. Especially when that essay starts getting longer than usual. But it’s coming. Honest.

I do realize I’m starting to sound like William Goldman promising the imminent abridgment and publication of Buttercup’s Baby in various editions of the original book of The Princess Bride, a book that supposedly has a sequel and Goldman just has to adapt it from its original overlong form. It’s all terrifically tongue in cheek and keeps up the metanarrative surrounding the supposed ‘unabridged’ book by S. Morgenstern. All very fun, and also very reminiscent of classic authors like Cervantes and Diderot. But with more diatribes surrounding fictitious family issues and legal issues with the Morgenstern estate that prevented the sequel from being published.

But anyway. I am currently on the aforementioned overseas trip and I am still trying to do that thing where I act like I’m on vacation while I’m on vacation and not spend hours working on a post for a blog. So instead, here’s an odd ramble about the original The Princess Bride and the assurance that, unlike Buttercup’s Baby, this actual essay really does exist and will be up here sometime.

Probably.