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The Well of Lost Plots

The Well of Lost Plots
Jasper Fforde

The Well of Lost Plots is a novel by Jasper Fforde, published in 2003. It is the third book in the Thursday Next series, after The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book.

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“I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.”

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“I have the death sentence in seven genres.”

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“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”

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“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

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“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

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“Miss Havisham had told me about Generics. They were created here in the Well to populate the books that were to be written. At the point of creation they were simply a human canvas without paint - blank like a coin, ready to be stamped with individualism. They had no history, no conflicts, no foibles - nothing that might make them either readable or interesting in any way. It was up to various institutions to teach them to be useful members of fiction. They were graded, too. A to D, one through ten. Any that were D-graded were like worker bees in crowds and busy streets. Small speaking parts were C-grades; B-grades usually made up the bulk of featured but not leading characters. These parts usually -but not always- went to the A-grades, handpicked for their skills at character projection and multidimensionality.”

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The Well of Lost Plots (2003), ch.1, p. 11

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