Supreme Villainy by King Oblivion

Author:King Oblivion
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Talos
Published: 2017-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

Email Correspondence Between King Oblivion, Ph.D. and Stephanie Regina, Ghostwriter of “Iniquitous Ambition”

From: King Oblivion, Ph.D.

To: Stephanie Regina

Subject: Word choices

Ms. Regina,

I have never done this for a ghostwriter before, but allow me to commend you for admirably telling the story of one of the most difficult and boring times of my life. Not being able to rob or maim or dress down anyone on that station for several years is the stuff nightmares are made of.

I must, however, dress you down for violating the top rule in my voluminous list of rules for ghostwriters: You used the word “good” (I hate to even use it here, but I have no other recourse) and several variations thereof in the manuscript you turned in. That is strictly forbidden.

“Good” is not something to aspire to. It’s not a term that should be used to describe something that’s satisfactory. “Good” is how huge-toothed buffoons in capes and underwear like to describe themselves as they mete out vigilante “justice” with no sanction and no plan of attack. It’s what idiots go to movies to learn all the wrong lessons about. It’s a buzzword. A fleeting fancy. A promise unkept. A grandiose lie.

What made you think I would make some exception for you to use this forbidden, contraband word?

. . .

From: Stephanie Regina

To: King Oblivion, Ph.D.

Subject: RE: Word choices

Grand sire of everyone,

I’m afraid I have been caught off guard by all this. I wish I had a good reason to give you for my slip-ups, but the genuine truth of it all is that “good” is quite simply a word I’m too used to writing, and as such it just managed to worm its way into this chapter a few times. I fully understand and am sympathetic to your distaste for the word, but nonetheless it is one I use often. I have no other excuse and apologize profusely.

I will point out, however—and this isn’t intended to make you appear as if you are anything but completely and unequivocally right in every matter—that in The Supervillain Handbook, the word “good” appears numerous times; it’s simply followed by “bad” in parentheses. I read that book very carefully to try and better understand you and your methods, so perhaps some of that rubbed off on me as well.

No excuses. I’m sorry.

. . .

From: King Oblivion, Ph.D.

To: Stephanie Regina

Subject: RE: Word choices

I wish I could accept your apology, Ms. Regina, but I’m afraid I cannot. Let me take your points in reverse:

1) Yes, the word does appear a few times in The Supervillain Handbook and one of the punishments I inflicted on my ghostwriter at the time was forcing him to go back through the manuscript and add the word “bad” next to each instance. I also bashed his hands with a giant mallet for several hours. So that’s why that is the way it is.

2) You say you continually wrote the word out of “habit,” but let me ask you this: If you were to, say, routinely light

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