As the managing editor and publisher of the Ovoid Elyssium Herald, one of the last family-owed newspapers in the great state of Illinois, the duty to dispel rumor and set the record right falls to your faithful servant of the fourth estate, Aeneas 'Nye' Babbage II.
Seems that someone (who shall remain nameless - at least for the time being) has written a novel with the blandly pedestrian title of 'Ovoid, Illinois' which the 'writer' (to label him - or her - with a distinction undeserved) has, with bald-faced audacity and wholesale condescension, sub-titled 'Fictionalized Accounts of Inconsequential People' in an effort, one might only assume, to denigrate further the the community on which this hapless fabrication is purportedly based. One might also assume that the person who penned this loosely intertwined collection of stories had hoped, by the use of what might first appear to be a self-deprecating subtitle, to deflect harsh and rightfully expected criticism of the 'novelist's' style or what passes for it.
Lest one be intrigued by the title or the promise of tawdry gossip regarding the righteous and up-standing folks, past and present, of the REAL Ovoid, Illinois, it must be stated forthwith that the tales told are naught but specious moonshine and preposterous poppycock and a load of old-fashioned baloney. This is calumny, pure and simple; tommyrot, balderdash and hooey meant only to titillate an ignorant readership with a salacious and bowdlerized misrepresentation of actual events both contemporary and historic!
This series of editorials will endeavor to debunk the defamation, deconstruct the dissemblance and dismiss the disparagement which this libelous bit of scribblement has introduced under the thin veil of fiction.
A. Babbage II
editor
A. Babbage II
editor
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