April 3, 2004
What's in a name?
The games have begun at Scribbling Woman and Crooked Timber. My contributions are as follows:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lady: Stephen Dedalus creates the uncreated conscience of his race by dressing up as Henry James in dragGoodnight, Moonstone: bedtime stories of theft, deception, and detection
My Mother, My Antonia: self-help guide for Cather addicts
Our Bodies, Our Town: touching drama about communal erotic awakening; ideal for school productions
Uncle Silas Marner: he kills Eppie and then weaves her hair into golden cloth
One Flew Over the Mockingbird's Nest: Scout loses her mind after Harper Lee's book gets banned for being racist
House of Mirthful Spirits: upbeat magical realism about turn-of-the-century social climbing
Atlas Ate My Gymsuit: libertarian teen fiction
The Wizard of Ozymandias: sonnets of the "there's no place like home" variety
Corelli's Kool-Aid Acid Test: sex, drugs, olive oil
Remembrance of Things Fall Apart: eating cookies sparks meditation on African colonialism
Their Eyes Were Waiting for Godot: after running away to Florida to escape the advances of Lucia Joyce, Beckett seduces Janie by plying her with tea and cake
Paradise Lost in Translation: Satan falls into a karaoke bar in Tokyo, is forever damned to croon temptingly in iambic pentameter
Charlotte's Weblog: spider discovers Moveable Type
That's a start. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
Comments:
I posted a few on my Blog here:
http://conservativegradstudent.blogspot.com/
"The Far Side of the Far Side of the World":
Aubrey and Maturin encounter talking cows and other oddities while at sea.
"The Hunt for Rose Red October":
Jack Ryan tries to figure out if Snow White's sister is defecting on a Russian submarine.
"The Joy Luck Fight Club"
I'm too tired to come up with an actual description.
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