如果有常看Peanuts漫画的话 不可能没注意到Snoopy在幻想成为世界第一流作家(World famous writer)这样的情节 而Snoopy每一次的创作都一定是以「那是一个黑暗的狂风暴雨夜」开始 ("It was a dark and stormy night") 据Wikipedia上面的资料http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy 这个开场白其实最初是由作家Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 在他1830年写成的Paul Clifford中所使用 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night 而这一句开场白也因为在Peanuts漫画中一再使用而受到注意 在1984年6月时Ballantine Books就以Snoopy and "It was a Dark and Stormy Night" (ISBN 0-449-20187-2)出版了这本由Snoopy所写成的小说 虽然严格说来Snoopu所写成的这部小说 其实只占了书中的一小部份 这本书的封面是Snoopy如平常一样坐在狗屋上面努力的在打字机前创作 而封面上的作者是写Charles M. Schulz 书的前2/3是Snoopy在写作的过程 在Snoopy写了最着名的第一句It was a dark and stormy night後 Linus看了一下就说：「你的小说有一个很令人兴奋的开始。」 Snoopy：「谢谢。」 Linus：「祝你的第二句好运吧。」 之後还下起雨来让Snoopy抓狂 然後Lucy就出现说她听说Snoopy正在创作一本新小说 她还说她是一个很好的艺术家 如果Snoopy有需要她可以帮他画新书的封面 Snoopy就开始说他想要的封面图画： 「要一群海盗和法国外籍兵团对一些牛仔在作战，再加一些狮子老虎和大象在空中飞来 飞去，还有一个女孩被绑在潜水艇上面，如何？」 (How about a bunch of pirates and Foreign Legionnaires fighting some cowboys with some lions and tigers and elephants leaping through the air at this girl who is tied to a submarine?) 最後Snoopy完成了作品并寄到出版社 不同於以往的结果当然就是出版社并没有寄来嘲笑的回信 而是真正同意要出版Snoopy的创世钜着 接下来书中就真的出现一张Snoopy所要求的封面图画 上面打着书名It was a dark stormy night 图画下方就写着A novel by Snoopy 在致谢词的一页 Snoopy写的是：For Woodstock, my friend of friends 下面是Snoopy这本书的全部内容： Part I It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up. Part II A light snow was falling, and the little girl in the tattered shawl had not sold a violet all day. At that very moment, a young intern at City Hospital was making an important discovery. The mysterious patient in Room 213 had finally awakened. She moaned softly. Could it be that she was the sister of the boy in Kansas who loved the girl with the tattered shawl who was the daughter of the maid who had escaped from the pirates? The intern frowned. "Stampede!" the foreman shouted, and forty thousand head of cattle thundered down on the tiny camp. The two men rolled on the ground grappling beneath the murderous hooves. A left and a right. A left. Another left and right. An uppercut to the jaw. The fight was over. And so the ranch was saved. The young intern sat by himself in the corner of the coffee shop. He had learned about medicine, but more importantly, he had learned something about life. THE END 书的最後还有Snoopy办的签名会 还说要想一个特别的签名 最後一页就是Snoopy的手印 XD 由於Snoopy创作小说的这个情节是如此的深入民心 在1976年当Snoopy!!!这部音乐剧推出时 (Snoopy!!![Original cast] DRG 6103 CD编号21471-6103-2) 当中就有一首歌是以It was a dark and stormy night为主题 歌曲的名称是The Great writer (It was a dark and stormy night) 里面的歌词其实大部份就是上面小说的正文部份 http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/snoopylyrics/ greatwriterlyrics.html -- 欢迎各位对《花生漫画》有兴趣的网友来 PTT bbs 站上的 Peanuts 版看看喔！ *^_^* 史努比和他的兄弟姐妹：Snoopy, Spike, Olaf, Andy, Marbles, Belle, Molly, Rover 糊涂塌客和他的弟兄们：Woodstock, Bill, Harriet, Olivier, Conrad, Fred, Raymond 花生漫画里的主要人物：Charlie Brown, Sally Brown, Lucy van Pelt, Linus van Pelt, Rerun van Pelt, Marcie, Peppermint Petty, Schroeder, Franklin, Pigpen, Violet, Eudora...... --

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