Dearest Wenny,
I know it’s pretentious, but I do think I have a new genre on my hands, and being that I am in process of inventing it, I’m inclined to name it. The white man names and renames everything he finds, like a field or a goat or a man everyone else carelessly never thought to own. Why should I not name a thing I birthed whole like a child into the world? So Dreamenders Labyrinth is the first novel of the genre “punklore.” Marion says “lorepunk” would be catchier. I agree to the extent I can. He probably knows what’s more saleable, being that he buys things and I shoplift them. But I’m a stickler for meaning. I’m changing “folklore”, not “lorefolk.” “Lorepunk” sounds more like a character inside the genre than the name for the genre itself.
Any good folk musician is just a punk who didn’t pay their power bill.
Punk tore down the stage, handed us the instruments and said: “Start a band! F…
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