I Can Never Please the Princess is ultimately a blog of fiction, though at times it draws so directly from real life, its audience may often ask themselves what is real and what is not. ICNPP is the autobiographical account of one Claudius Wenchman, a scribe who, much to his dissatisfaction, was ordered by the Peasantry Scribe Council to accompany the Princess at her workplace and document her comments and adventures. She is often mean, arrogant, demanding, and deliberately cruel.
In the early days of the blog, Claudius' entries stayed diligently focused on the Princess and her antics, as was his assignment and duty, but as the blog progressed, one can see that Claudius began to falter and he often fails to mention the Princess at all. In these accounts we see Claudius left to his own devices, speaking of many things with no real theme other than this: Claudius Wenchman Explores and Ponders What He Wants. A study of the blog will reveal that the Princess, with all her self-centered pride, does not like it when the blog meanders away from its formal subject...which is of course her.
I Can Never Please the Princess is a work of torment and suffering and the down-and-out aimlessness of a man forced to practice his craft in an unforgiving field where there is rarely love or any kind of positive reinforcement. In the end Claudius is a buffoon in a clown suit riding the tail winds of absurdity. To read his account, is to experience a comedic tragedy.
- Herbert Meistroburg.
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