The Triumph of Stupidity manuscript: A very special offer
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Thanks to everyone who has bid on this item so far. I’m going to throw in a bonus, which could, assuming the eventual book becomes A Literary Classic, earn the winner of the auction if not wealth uncountable, then at least what I believe the kids refer to these days as “fat stacks.”
To wit, the signed manuscript will be accompanied by a personalized old-fashioned hand-written letter from the author to the Lucky Winner, which over the course of perhaps one thousand words (and one picture) will describe the entire genesis of the project, the draft process itself, and, most fascinatingly, the weird and twisted path to publication up to this point, which features never before revealed details that will make possession of this signed manuscript and the accompanying revelatory letter a very lucrative proposition, assuming, again, its eventual classic literary status.
I re-read Homage to Catalonia recently, which is now certainly the most famous English language book about one of the most important historical events of the 20th century. I looked up its publication history, and found that the book sold 683 of its initial print run of 1,500 copies in the first six months after publication, and that indeed that print run had still not sold out at the time of Orwell’s death twelve years later. Which is to say, to quote a leading analytical philosopher, you never can tell.
What are the odds that The Triumph of Stupidity becomes as well-known as Orwell’s memoir, or Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, or Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, to name three of the manuscript’s principal inspirations? Some might say, “not good,” but I say you can’t win if you don’t play!