Over at Jill Writes I learnt about a grass roots promotion for a book called The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison by blogger Paul Davidson.

Jill says:

The subtitle of the book pretty much sums it up: The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing. The premise is this: friendly bloggers give Paul a hand in promoting his book by spending the work week of April 10-14 blogging as historical figures (of their own choice, but that aren’t included in the book). Readers guess who they are.

Well, I’m a bit of an outsider on this, but I support anyone doing something clever, especially if there is a literary bent to the enterprise, and the idea caught my fancy so I’m participating in spirit if not in fact (and besides I missed the starting post).

Herewith my guest writer’s first entry. I don’t think it will be too hard to guess who it is, but it’s kinda not the point for me – I just like the idea.

Settle back, and light a solitary candle. Are you sitting comfortably…? OK, channelling:

April 11, 2006

Dear reader, once again have I retired to take up pen
(These days should I say keyboard? I can never be quite sure…)
And resume my nightly journal of philosophies nocturnal,
The ephemera infernal that my mind will not ignore;
Visions from the world of Charon that the righteous would abhor
Rendered tangible once more.

And I draw the heavy curtain, sure that she is dreaming, certain
That the night will bring her respite from the coughs that rack her core
This I hope, at least, for hoping is my only way of coping
Else I sit here merely moping, and the dread comes as before
Crushing, crashing waves of dread from some cold atramentous shore
Heaving heavy at my door…

…to be continued