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April 3, 2004 [feather]
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 drag

Goodnight, 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.

posted on April 3, 2004 6:44 PM








Comments:

I posted a few on my Blog here:
http://conservativegradstudent.blogspot.com/

Posted by: John Phelan, Conservative English Major at April 3, 2004 9:26 PM



"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.

Posted by: John Fusco at April 4, 2004 1:15 AM