First Among Sequels Author:Jasper Fforde The Council of Genres, governing authority for the application of dramatic convention and irony, hereby dictates the resolution of border disputes between RACY NOVEL and the neighbouring genres FEMINIST and ECCLESIASTICAL. To facilitate the free trade of ideas and movements of characters between genres (thereby stimulating fluctuation of the Rea... more »d-O-Meter), RACY NOVEL shall adhere to the following sanctions:
1. Cease and desist from panty raids on FEMINIST and ECCLESIASTICAL.
2. Abide by the import ban on metaphor, characterization and competent description.
Should RACY NOVEL senator Speedy Muffler fail to enforce these sanctions, the Council of Genres grants FEMINIST and ECCLESIASTICAL the right to fire salvos of long-winded intellectual dissent into RACY NOVEL?s territory. All three genres maintain access to the principality of EROTICA to the north, and export rights within the buffer zone of COMEDY to the south.
Accordance with this treaty does not annul RACY NOVEL?s inclusion, along with MISERY MEMOIRS and PSEUDOINTELLECTUAL DRIVEL, from the Council of Genres? ?Axis of the Unreadable.? RACY NOVEL?s status as an independent genre will be protected by and further disputes mediated by Jurisfiction Special Operative Thursday Next.« less