How to Appear Noodles in Several Uneasy Lessons (short story)
How to Appear Noodles in Several Uneasy Lessons was the first vignette in the anthology The Noodle Incident, published by Arcbeatle Press on their website on 1 April 2024 to coincide with April Fools' Day. It was written by Plum Pudding, and was an entry in Coloth, carrying on from where The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"] left off.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Callum and Maritsa explore the Plume Coteries' Library after being released from the The Book of the Snowstorm, with Coloth and Rich behind them. Callum finds a pile of Nothing round the corner, which [[the most canon man]] crawls from and begins dancing, explaining that he is valid and canon, before vanishing. The group notices that every book in the entire library has been given noodle-related titles.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Mentioned only[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Robert Shearman
- Nicki Minaj
- Grant MacDonald
- Plum Pudding
- Aristide Twain
- Dr. Seuss
- Roald Dahl
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Joanna Cole
- Neil Gaiman
- E.L. James
- Harper Lee
- Leo Tolstoy
- William Shakespeare
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Coloth is reading something by Robert Shearman.
- The song "Ram Ranch" by Grant MacDonald may or may not exist.
- Noodle Man changes the titles of books in the library to:
- Adventures of Noodle Man, Noodle Man on the Orient Express, Simmer Gently Till Pasta is Soft - A Noodle Man Novel, Noodle Man Fucking Kills Cwej, The Noodle Man That Came In From the Cold, God versus Noodle, and The Noodle Man Ascendency - Volume 22, all by Plum Pudding;
- The Noodle Man Cometh, Noodle Man - Realms of Noodle, Noodle Man: Book of the Noodle, Genesis of the Noodles, Resurrection of the Noodles, Antidisestablishmentarianism of the Noodles, Noodion Noodledox the Noodle Noodle Noodle, and 10,000 Noodles, all by Aristide Twain;
- Noodle Man Book One: Down The Griddle, Noodle Man Book Two: Out of the Batter, Noodle Man Book Three: We Had To Split This One For Length, Noodle Man Book Four: mmm noodle mmm, all by Aristide Twain and various;
- Green Eggs and Noodles by Dr. Seuss, Charlie and the Noodle Factory by Roald Dahl, Noodlehouse Five, Or The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, The Magic School Bus Goes To Noodle by Joanna Cole, American Noodles by Neil Gaiman, 50 Shades of Noodle by E.L. James, To Kill a Noodle by Harper Lee, War and Noodles by Leo Tolstoy, Noodles! Noodles! by Terry Pratchett, The Bible by Noodle Man, and Hamlet but it’s About Noodles Now by William Shakespeare.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The name appears to be a reference to How To Appear Human In Several Uneasy Lessons [+]Loading...["How To Appear Human In Several Uneasy Lessons (short story)"].
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Callum, Maritsa, Coloth, and Rich have recently been involved in a rather calamitous book, having been trapped in a room. This refers to the events of The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"].
- Coloth feels a sense of Cho, a phrase defined in War Crimes [+]Loading...["War Crimes (short story)"]
