Imaginary books

[cosmolinguist]

Friend of mine (his tweets are locked; no one any of you know anyway I think) tweeted

"Whatever Happened to My Transylvania Twist?": Nostalgia and Modernity in Vampire Culture

(Followed by some explanation of the quote: "I've spent an uncommon amount of time thinking about the lyrics to "Monster Mash," and that line especially." His silly, very suited-to-the-medium-of-twitter idea resolves its tension when Dracula finally accepts the historical process of the dialectic and joins the band.)

But I read this first tweet and smiled and then suddenly realized how intense nostalgia would be in a long-lived or immortal species. And now I really want to read this treatise. And it doesn't exist.

This feeling of longing to read a book that doesn't exist is probably the kind of thing you'd get in a book about the nostalgia that vampires have.

Comments

[sfred]

I think there might be a solution available when a talented writer wants a book to exist...

[cosmolinguist]

I think it'd have to be a person with more brains and energy than me, though. :) I'm doing too much as it is.

[silveradept]

That would be a book to read, most definitely.

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

...now I want to write this book.

[cosmolinguist]

Please do!

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do! I have a bunch of novel ideas on my plate right now. :)