Turkey City HF?

Kveto from Prague · Post by **Kveto from Prague** » Sun July 18th, 2010, 4:52 am

very good stuff, Annis. Should be required reading for all novelists

annis · Post by **annis** » Sun July 18th, 2010, 6:33 am

Warning, though, Keny-- once you've read the Turkey City Lexicon your brain goes on "turkey alert" and you spot them everywhere

I've just come across a "lacriform* gem" in the book I'm currently reading and thinking- "uh-oh, Roget's Disease turkey alert":
The ludicrous overuse of far-fetched adjectives, piled into a festering, fungal, tenebrous, troglodytic, ichorous, leprous, synonymic heap

*(Why not use "tear-drop shaped"?)

Kveto from Prague · Post by **Kveto from Prague** » Sun July 18th, 2010, 9:58 am

[quote=""annis""]Warning, though, Keny-- once you've read the Turkey City Lexicon your brain goes on "turkey alert" and you spot them everywhere

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i was just thinking that.

as this list was written with SF in mind, i was thinking it might be interesting for us to come up with our own list of Turkeys with HF in mind.

for instance, i dont know a good name for it, but when a well known historical personage makes a cameo type appearance which does not advance the plot in the least. just a "hey, look who it is!" like a cameo in a film. ie could also work with a famous historical event.

thomas a beckets appearance in "pillars of the earth" felt like a cameo to me.

annis · Post by **annis** » Sun July 18th, 2010, 9:56 pm

The Marquee Historical Figure Red Herring "turkey", maybe?