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解説

付記

故ジェームズ・F・ボウマンは、ある天才と共に週刊紙の連載小説を書いていた。 彼らは共同ではなく交互に執筆し、ボウマンが一週、友が翌週、その繰り返しで、永遠に続くことを夢見ていた。 だが不幸にも口論となり、ある月曜の朝、ボウマンが新聞を読んだとき、目にしたのは驚愕と痛みだった。 彼の相棒は物語の登場人物をすべて船に乗せ、 大西洋の最深部に沈めてしまったのだ。

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Original

A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read them. A synposis of the entire work would be still better.

Additional notes

The late James F. Bowman was writing a serial tale for a weekly paper in collaboration with a genius whose name has not come down to us. They wrote, not jointly but alternately, Bowman supplying the installment for one week, his friend for the next, and so on, world without end, they hoped. Unfortunately they quarreled, and one Monday morning when Bowman read the paper to prepare himself for his task, he found his work cut out for him in a way to surprise and pain him. His collaborator had embarked every character of the narrative on a ship and sunk them all in the deepest part of the Atlantic.