January 20, 2009
Chapter 20 of Allison and the Primdales is available. This is the payoff for the past few chapters.
Changing gears for a minute, I decided to do some counting and came up with some interesting numbers. Just the other day I hit half a million words in what I have written in the story so far. That is far longer than anything I've ever written before, erotic or otherwise. To put it in perspective, that's longer than Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, and Oliver Twist combined!
Of course, I only have about a fourth of that posted so far, about a hundred and twenty-five thousand words, which is slightly longer than Robinson Crusoe. However, if I keep with the same average word count per chapter for the rest of the story, I should hit six hundred thousand words, which is longer than Les Miserables or War and Peace if taken individually rather than collectively; or alternately the complete Chronicles of Narnia with enough room leftover for Ben Hur and Treasure Island; or the entire Lord of the Rings (including the Hobbit if you exclude the appendices at the end of Return of the King); or two copies of Ben Hur and a Moby Dick; or one Gone With The Wind with two Captains Courageous and a Treasure Island; or three copies of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, two Robinson Crusoes, and a War of the Worlds thrown in just for fun. You may exchange two copies of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea for any instance of Moby Dick above, or two copies of Treasure Island and a War of the Worlds for any one Ben Hur. So, for instance, you can go with four Treasure Islands, two War of the Worlds, and two Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas if you prefer.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Well, no I don't, but I have it narrowed down to three possibilities.
A. Yes, I just compared Allison and the Primdales to some of the greatest literature of all time. But I only compared word counts, not literary value. If you're looking for a comparison of literary value, let me put it this way. Oliver Twist may provide a brilliant and bleak social commentary on the criminal underbelly of Victorian England, but Allison and the Primdales has more sex. Now which one are you going to read?
B. No, I'm not going to tell you where I got my numbers. Secrets of the trade and all that.
C. You're right. I have way too much time on my hands.
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