This is all in good fun…
Lee’s satirical Violet Crepuscular posts are hilarious, by the way. Could you imagine how long a book with five hundred chapters could be? For most modern day readers, the chapters would need to be extremely short to keep their attention!

Not long ago, Phoebe suggested we throw a party for Violet Crepuscular to celebrate 500 chapters of her epic romance, Oy, Rodney. It’s as good an excuse as any to have a party. Hey, how many writers manage a book with 500 chapters in it? (“But look at all the chapters she skipped, to get…
A Party for Violet? — Lee Duigon