The rejection slip the motion picture studio Essanay Film Manufacturing Company (1907-1925) sent screenwriters whose submissions were found wanting. Essanay is best remembered today for its series of Charlie Chaplin films.
(via Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture)
A man and his boat went to sea
to sea
(Oh, his boat he called LUCY LOON)
But the sea was as green
As the split of a pea
And his boat was shaped like a spoon.
If Tim likes Sally
And Sally likes Pip
And Pip likes Mary Lou,
Then all the math
In all the world
Can’t tell them what to do!
Window flash in a cupboard house
clamoring, cupped in a covered door
carrying the cold to a careless couch
collecting cobwebs from off the floor.
What a ghastly wall!
What ennui!
I stared at the space
for half of a day —
What a waste!
Not a whit I saw
but a cob of dust
and a piece of the wind.
What a place!
I’d forgotten my name;
oh! even the fly
disdained to be so disgraced.
FIN
Choose peace
“And there’s probably no happy nonsense, either”
– Edward Gorey
An archive of writings:
Stempel vs. Van Doren & the quiz show scandal
Posting poems that I write, and the journal-page scrawl that accompanies the writing process.
