Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Fifty-One

[email protected] (HarryLime) posted:

> AN ACT OF WILL.
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> In 2017, George J. Dunce, whose only previous publishing experience, was a job packing books into boxes for mailing, decided to publish a collection of Will Donkey's poetry.
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> It was rumored at the time that he did so in order to make Will Donkey a "publshed poet" -- a title which some of Dunce's A.A.P.C. adversaries lacked.
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> The 123-page chapbook took Dunce approximately two years to self-publish via Amazon.
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> During the two year "editing" phase, Dunce and Donkey used the A.A.P..C. forum to endlessly discuss such items as which items should be included, and whether Will approved of a suggested correction, etc.
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> When the book finally came out in 2019, the "edited" Donkey poems were still rife with grammatical errors, incomplete sentences, mixed tenses, etc., as ever.  Dunce's editorial skills were called into question, and became a running joke on the A.A.P.C. boards.
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> Dunce reportedly purchased several 100 copies which he and the Donkey attempted to send out to critics, libraries, and other literary venues.  Eventually, the books ended up being given out to customers at Sarah Donkeytits' bait store.
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Dunce takes his daughter's lunch money, and once a month buys more copies of Will Donkey's "book."  Will Donkey then gives out the books to unsuspecting stranger.