I finally got the rough draft of my Robinson Crusoe adaptation done. Now I have to revise and get lots more pop and lots less words. Again, some of the stuff in the book is really funny, though so very flatly told (some of which was intentional) that the funny is lost. I want to bring it back. Which is not to say RC is a comedy (except in the classic "has a happy ending" way) but it does have funny things.

And some things that are hysterical even though they aren't meant to be. Near the end of the book Robinson Crusoe is a member of a party travelling over some moutains in Europe (and you thought it all took place on an island). They are attacked by hundreds and hundreds of wolves...coming in waves like troops on the battlefield. Okay, that made me laugh. No wonder the poor wolves are starving, their packs number in the hundreds.

And then Friday decides to torture a bear (right, not funny though apparently the group found it comic) but at the end he tells Robinson that's how they kill bears on the small Carribean island where he was from. Right...bears roaming the island jungles of the Carribean.

Anyway, my first draft is about 4000 words over so I need to get to work.

After adapting both Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe, I find that (at one time) white folks had an unhealthy preoccupation with cannibals.