ACTUAL PROLOGUE Trying to Get Started The Templeton twins Abigail and John were blah blah blah et cetera and so forth Yes I admit the above sentence isn’t very good Well too bad You will have to bear with me Reader I have never done this sort of thing before written books told stories stories to complete strangers who frankly I may not particularly particularly like Yes I am referring to you Would I like you if I met you I’m not so sure I would Of course you can say Well maybe I wouldn’t like you if I met you Narrator While that isn’t likely it is indeed a possibility And yet when I contemplate such an occasion I cannot help but ask myself Do I want the Reader to like me Do I care
I think we can all agree that I don’t care Believe me I am not writing these words because I want to I am writing writing them because I am compelled to That is why I wrote The End in the Prologue I had hoped you would read that and be fooled into thinking you had read an entire book which I would then not actually have to write I had hoped you would look up and say to your parent parent or guardian or sibling or bodyguard My that was a short book I’m not sure anything actually happened in it but it says The End so something must have However I can see by the fact that you are reading this now that I was wrong I was unable to fool you You must be smarter than I thought Very well If you are so terribly terribly smart why don’t you write this book Just fill it in right here I see you have failed to fill it in It’s not as easy as it looks is it Fine Let’s move on actual prologue trying to get started 11
One day thirteen years earlier HOLD IT yet so how can anything be earlier than nothing you may be thinking Earlier than what Nothing has happened In reply I can say only that it seemed like a good idea to write One day thirteen years earlier but now I am having Second Thoughts I shall try writing the Prologue again But wait First let us all agree on what a Prologue is A Prologue is the part of the story that happens before the events of the main story itself Pro means before and logue means whatever it means Look it up Why do I have to do everything The purpose of the Prologue is to establish something important important that will have consequences later There We all agree on what a Prologue is That is I have told you what it is and you agree with me Now at last finally here is the actual Prologue 12 the templeton twins have an idea
ACTUAL PROLOGUE Getting Started Again One day thirteen years earlier Professor Elton Templeton was in his office at Elysian University University talking with a student Normally the Professor enjoyed meeting with students in his office but today he was distracted by the fact that his wife was about to give birth to their first baby However he had been told that the baby would not be ready to be born for some time so he had decided to conduct conduct his usual office hours He had met with all the students students who wished to speak with him except this one This young man who was quite good-looking had come to the Professor’s office to protest the grade the Professor had given him in a course entitled Introduction Introduction to Systems Dynamics Do you know what that means Of course you don’t And yet I do
