Bookish Insanity

i love that charles dickens got paid by the word. like i cant even be mad when he’s boring and long-winded bc i would do xactly the same??? i wouldnt use contractions or colours at all. want to say the word red? too bad. we r now only using “the colour of freshly-spilled blood on snow; the hue of the horizon when the sun sets over the deserts of sub-saharan Africa” BOOM guess who can afford 2 eat now: me and my boi dickens 

# can you imagine the kind of extended torture we would have been subject to if victor hugo had been paid by the pun (via vlajean)

So was Nabokov paid by the literary/cultural reference? That’s what I want to know. 

Terry Pratchett was paid by the pun and by the footnote

do you ever read a book that’s so rich in worldbuilding you get like tourist fatigue