Chapter Four: The Preparations

This is basically the most useless chapter in the book. Since this is an abridgment, and good old Bill Goldman didn't find it necessary, there's not much for me to say. Apparently, in the original Morgenstern's version of The Princess Bride (which I'll refer to as TPB), this was the longest chapter: 105 pages. But in Goldman's side notes (in italics), he tells us that they officially announce that Buttercup will be queen, Humperdinck begins fighting with the other nobles because he can't marry a commoner, the make Buttercup Princess of Hammersmith, a little place in the middle of nowhere that Lotharon owns, the king starts feeling better under treatment of his new Miracle man, AAAAAAANNNND Buttercup has princess boot-camp, learning etiquette and whatnot. Wow, how's that for a run-on sentence? I wanted to have fun with this chapter and basically blow through it and act silly. I probably won't do that in future chapters. But seriously, this chapter is basically one page long. If it wasn't for the little symbol thing they put at the top of the first page of a chapter, all of it would've fit on one page. And this isn't even part of the book itself. So with that out of the way, and hoping a certain English teacher doesn't kill me I think we'll just move happily along to Ch. 5. :)