Today,think about it. Today no great works could be published. No works of mad imagination. Today is all about marketing, hitting the market.
Jonathan Swift in front of a publisher today.
" So Mr Swift, your book is aimed at? You have a story about Lilliputians and a man who falls asleep . Where's the sex and violence? Gulliver .What kind of name is that? Make him called Brute. So he wakes up, gets a laser and kills all the little folk .
Next
Mr Carroll , we've got another book about someone who falls asleep. This time its a little girl and she finishes up in a rabbit hole. Whose it aimed at? Rabbits? Hate to tell you Louis, rabbits have zero income. No market baby.
Next
Mr Milne.
Now your book. Winnie the Pooh. What kind of name is that? Think sanitary man. Do we want a product that is associated with kaka? And look at this.
Piglet? Eeyore. Whose gonna play them in the film? Hell man get real.No way.
Jesus there a guy here trying to sell a story about a family who goes out to a party leaving the kids in the charge of a dog called Nana and they all fly off and meet some guy called Peter Pan and there's pirates and stuff, what has this guy been smoking? And another guy has a story about a toad that drives a car and has a friend whose a rat?
Jesus! And another guy has a story about a guy called Jesus. Calls it the Bible? Says it's all true? Jesus!"
If you are a publisher, sorry IF you are one of those mad geniuses like the one that spotted Harry Potter AFTER SO MANY TURNED IT DOWN

I am disgusted that you see fit to mock all that we in this country hold,dear.
I have been a monarchist since I was a small girl and believe that all royal personages are angels on earth. I was once cured of the scurvy by staring at a portrait of King Zog of Albania for three days. Your sort should be horse-whipped by a young lady wearing leather boots as so should I
General Mrs Algernon Fibbs
P.S What do you call the @ sign? We call it Tibbles, but then we call our cat @.