So one time I did try to write a book for adults and - you know, I read a lot of kid’s books, I also read books by Charles Dickens.
I was reading what I think is maybe his greatest book, Bleak House, and I was like you could have a lot of fun with this book and actually what people don’t realize is Dickens was having a lot of fun. He tells little jokes and stuff and I was like, I want to tell crazy jokes.
And so I wrote this book and I thought it was going to be for adults and it was going to have this lady, Malady (unintelligible), and the joke was going to be, kind of like Charles Dickens does sometimes, every time we mentioned her, we would never call her, her or Malady, every time we mentioned her we would use the whole name Malady (unintelligible) over and over and over again.
So already I was veering into territory that was too silly for adults. So anyway Malady (unintelligible) had a couple of paragraphs and all of a sudden Horton Halfpot, the kitchen boy shows up and he just stole the book. He showed up in the first chapter and he stole the book. It became Horton Halfpot’s book.
He got the title, he stole the title from Malady so it became Horton Halfpot and Malady ended up, Malady (unintelligible) ended up getting this subtitle is all she got and she ended up being sort of the comic relief in the book and Horton Halfpot became the star and he took it over and quickly it became obvious. This is a book it’s too awesome for adults. It’s got to be a kid’s book. There is pirates running around and they’re shipless pirates, their ship got sunk. So now they’re, they’re mad, they’re on foot, and they want money real bad so they can buy a new ship.
There’s a bunch of crazy people running around, there’s this crazy detective who actually has no idea what’s going on. There’s Malady (unintelligible) and her evil son Luther (unintelligible), there’s just - every crazy thing I could think of just shoved into this castle. I kept having new ideas - it’s a big castle so there’s room to shove everything I could think of into this castle.
And so it’s just this castle that’s exploding with crazy stuff and pickles, there’s pickles flying all over the place. So that’s my, that’s my book and you can see adults wouldn’t read something like that. They want to read the boring version, you know, it had to be a kid’s book.