Steward Setback Saturday: Ed Calkins: "42"

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Ed Calkins: "42"

So I received this "telegram" for Ed Calkins, the Steward of Tara, earlier this week, which initiated a brief exchange. The entire correspondence is below, with commentary from me.

BTW, the actual name of the book is the The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.



Dear MOMI,

Dyslexia can change a whole novel. At first read I mistook Connla the Fair as a reincarnated wood sprite interposing that name with Glorna.

I tied to write the next limericks explaining how the two are one but this just mergers too many souls (Connla/Glorna/John Peter+ 42/Angela).

Could you do me a favor and replace Connla with Glorna in the limericks? I just can't make the mistake work thoughI did try.  (Done! And it does make more sense this way. Denise)

    

While we're at it, I wonder if the irony of '42' (the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe") was intentional, or a happy accident?

                                                                                        

Dyslexically yours,

Sniklac De

O Steward,

I'll change it... if you're sure.

Because John-Peter did adopt the Connla legend as his, hence his love for apples and wishing for a 

magic one.

I've never read "Hitchhiker," although my sister loved it. Is there a" "42" reference?

MOMI

Dear MOMI

Yea, I did catch the Connla thing but am about to take the Seven Characters in Search of an Author reference and I need the wood sprite not the hero.

Yes. 42 is the answer to "life, the universe, and everything." the earth was built to understand the question (But demolished to build an interstellar highway minutes before the it a a archived its purpose.

I'll be writing more soon

Ed Calkins,

Steward of Tara

So what's this "42" business?

"42" is the name of a character is Staked!

It's truly a happy accident because, in another happy accident, I really didn't know the question when I created her.

But the character 42 (without giving away anything), by another happy accident, seems to fit the premise set forth in "Hitchhiker." (I say "seems" because, like I said, I have not read the book).

Furthermore, I'll bet you're wondering about the connection linking wood sprites, the Connla the Fair legend, and authors.

Well, the answers (sort of) are in Staked!, the third book in the BryonySeries trilogy. Although the books tell one story and make the best sense if consumed in order, they can be read out of order.

In a shameless bit of Staked! promotion, you can buy the book HERE.

And this is a vampire story? Yes.

Or to quote Ed Calkins (as he appears in (Staked!): “There’s all kinds of blood, if you know where to look."

I am now off to my make-believe place. Have a great gloomy Saturday!