Last autumn I began brainstorming another personal project-a concept for a video game this time, an old-school graphic adventure with a modern twist, something modest and small in scope.
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But when I do - five, ten, twenty years down the road - I’ll crack the spine and smooth the pages and dive back in. I don’t know where that second copy is now, and I’m in no hurry to find it. How easy it had been to find her again, and rexperience our old adventures together. Five years later my novel was finished, thanks in part to the inspiration I took from a young lady who refused to disappear. Weeks later, I began writing my own book. Quelle suprise. I snapped up a copy of the original and skiddered home. Right there on the shelf in front of me were half a dozen copies of a fresh printing of Eloise At the Plaza, taking up the lead in a procession of sequels I had never heard of. There had even been a live-action film in 2003, according to a blurb on the back of one copy. Poking around Seattle’s Elliot Bay Book Company a few days later, I discovered Eloise was still a minor celebrity, a tiny kitchy industry still attracting young readers sixty-five years after its original publication. Mom said she couldn't imagine anyone having a copy anymore. I was sorry to hear this, and told her I’d find a new copy if possible, else I’d look for a used one online.
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The last time she’d seen it, she’d felt sorry for the poor thing, a battered and threadbare plank with a cracked spine and loose pages. Mom feared she had thrown it away. This conceit, I thought, would require some research. The following day I called my mother to ask if she still had our original printing of Eloise At The Plaza, a faded maroon copy her mother had originally purchased for her. To make this connection as clear as possible, my protagonist would speak often and eagerly of Eloise, believing she was his sister. Many years later, tilting into my thirties, I would hit on the idea of writing a novel about a teenage boy trapped in a phantasmagoric fugue-state similar to Eloise at her most inventive, only without any recourse to reality - a chronic reverie from which there was no return.
I crafted some of my earliest attempts at fiction under her influence, around my tenth or eleventh birthday. Eloise and her effulgent imagination.Ī rambunctious girl capable of spectacular disruptions, her antics stirred the young writer in me.
Eloise and her scrappy pup, Weenie, and Skipperdee her saucer-sized turtle and their skiddering adventures around the frosty pink halls of the Plaza Hotel. I remember her fondly: Eloise and her marshmallowy cheeks, her bolted-on nose, her twigs and bristles of bushy hair. For most of my childhood, a girl named Eloise was a hero of mine - the star of Eloise at the Plaza , an illustrated children’s book from the 1950s that rarely left my bedside in my earliest years as a reader.
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