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Jul. 6th, 2008 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsmeatI'm currently working through some late 19th/early 20th century fantasy and science fiction, courtesy of Gutenberg.
I'm interested in finding the point when authors stopped including lengthy, pointless, preambles about the obscure, convoluted manner in which they'd acquired the enclosed manuscript. And how, notwithstanding the outré nature if the narrative, they had felt duty-bound to place it before the public. They're simply presenting the facts as they have them and are making no claims as to the manuscripts veracity, leaving that to the sage judgment of the reader.
I'm interested in finding the point when authors stopped including lengthy, pointless, preambles about the obscure, convoluted manner in which they'd acquired the enclosed manuscript. And how, notwithstanding the outré nature if the narrative, they had felt duty-bound to place it before the public. They're simply presenting the facts as they have them and are making no claims as to the manuscripts veracity, leaving that to the sage judgment of the reader.
