They have done it! The butchering of the classics of literature has been taken up with much fanfare and with a book to lead the battle! Twitterature, to be released by Penguin, USA is an anthology of great works of literature reduced to about 20 tweets each. On the chopping-board are Kafka (Metamorphosis), Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Joyce (Ulysses), J D Salinger (Catcher in the Rye), Voltaire (Candide), Virgil (Aeneid), Dickens (Great Expectations) and many others.
A sampling:
Man walks around Dublin. We follow every minute detail of his day. He's probably overtweeting." (Ulysses, James Joyce)
@bugged-out—I seem to have transformed into a large bug. Has this ever happened to any of you? No solution on Web MD.'' (Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka)
Vladimir and Estragon stand next to tree and wait for Godot. Their status is not updated. (Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett)
Well, they are sexy tweets no doubt and clever. I think I will read this book, but keeping somewhere in my mind the Wall Street Journal comment about Twitterature, "Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of Shakespeare rolling over in his grave." The clever publisher, they are using this quote on the book cover!
Come to think of it doesn't `twittered' kind of rhyme with `butchered'?
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