Apparently the publishing industry involves an inordinate amount of filing.  So much filing, in fact, that I wish I never had a lower back, or, at the very least, that my lower back was replaced with a toaster oven.

Over the last week or so I have been reading old children’s books — Wind in the Willows, Whinnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner — so far they have been limited to books written in England, in the early 20th Century English, but I am excited to start reading The Little Prince; I was told that I should really read it in French, but I’m not that smart, so I’m going to tough it out with the English translation. At this point, my list for “classic” childrens literature is running to the end, so if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it. One of my bosses says that, The Rats of Nim counts as childrens liturature.

It seems that childrens liturature has changed so dramatically since the publication of these classic books; they’ve become so fantastic: relying on wizards, gods, magic — the entire relm of the supernatural has superseded the children’s genre. The question then becomes, how will this literature endoctrinate itself or influencence the canon of children’s literature? For that matter, is there even a canon in children’s literature, or does the genre itself revolve around fads? Regardless it would appear that this relm of literature is currently, if not constantly, in a state of flux.

I moved up here from Philadelphia for this internship, and, as a result, quit my terrible, hateful job. And it’s been great. Yes, I know only been here a week; I’m still waiting for the moment where my bosses tell me that they will cut off a finger for everyone of my comma splices, but so far so good. The only problem is that I need to find a way to make money, and the only ideas I could come up with involved time machines and and slam dunking on T.S. Eliot. I’m not sure how this will make any money, but I really like this idea.

In regard to Rachel’s observation of my last name (not that she asked for my opinion): I will neither confirm nor deny any relation to the infamous Manning Brothers.

Shakespeare’s got to get paid (somehow),
Calvin