Would you ever even think of reading literature on Twitter…Twitterature, they call it?
London, October 27 (ANI): Two students in the US have summarised the stories of some of the world’s greatest literature in to 140-character messages using the popular microblogging site Twitter.
Emmett Rensin, an English and philosophy student at the University of Chicago, and friend Alexander Aciman, who is studying comparative literature, condensed the plot lines in ‘Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter’, soon to be published by Penguin.
According to the Telegraph, the book reads Dante’s Inferno as: “I’m having a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Should a bought my iPhone.”
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is trimmed to: “PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me.”
Homer’s The Odyssey, and the work of Milton, Kafka and Shakespeare also feature in the tome.
Rensin said: “It’s funny if you’ve read the books.”
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20091027/854/ttc-coming-soon-world-s-greatest-books-r.html
Never! I love books.
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