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Submitted by Katastrofa (View user info) at 2005-08-02 16:37:28 EDT
This is from the Washington Post Invitational contest, Merge-Matic Books:
Readers were asked to combine the works of two authors, and to provide a suitable description of the merged book.
"Machiavelli's The Little Prince" -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are executed. (Erik Anderson, Tempe, Ariz.)
"Green Eggs and Hamlet" -- Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunner! y. (Robin Parry, Arlington)
"Where's Walden?" -- Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in each richly-detailed drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear that he is always in the woods. (Sandra Hull, Arlington)
"Catch-22 in the Rye" -- Holden learns that if you're insane, you'll probably flunk out of prep school, but if you're flunking out of prep school, you're probably not insane. (Brendan Beary, Great Mills)
"2001: A Space Iliad" -- The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10-year war against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K bug. (Joseph Romm, Washington)
"Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi" -- Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. (David Laughton, Washington)
"The Maltese Faulkner" -- Is the black bird a tortured symbol of Sam's struggles with race and family? Does it signify his decay of soul along with the soul of the Old South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts to understand? Or is it worth a cool mil? (Thad Humphries, Warrenton)
"Jane Eyre Jordan" -- Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship. (Dave Pickering, Bowie)
"The Scarlet Pimpernel Letter" -- An 18th-century English nobleman leads a double life, freeing comely young adulteresses from the prisons of post-Revolution France.
"The Remains of the Day of the Jackal" -- A formal English butler puts his loyalty to his employer above all else, until he is persuaded to join a plot to assassinate Charles deGaulle.
"The Invisible Man of La Mancha" -- Don Quixote discovers a mysterious elixir which renders him invisible. He proceeds to go on a mad rampage of corruption and terror, attacking innocent people in the streets and all the while singing "To fight the Invisibl! e Man!" until he is finally stopped by a windmill.
"Of Three Blind Mice and Men" -- Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off by a psychopathic farmer's wife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life?
"Planet of the Grapes of Wrath" -- Astronaut lands on mysterious planet, only to discover that it is his very own home planet of Earth, which has been taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously developed rudimentary technology and regained the ability to speak after exposure to nuclear radiation.
"Paradise Lost in Space" -- Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and two annoying children.
"The Exorstentialist" -- Camus psychological thriller about a priest who casts out a demon by convincing it that there's really no purpose to what it's doing.
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Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-08-02 18:39:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ajanssen (user info) at 2005-08-02 16:44:45 (#)
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You forgot "The Legend of Katastrofa" A heart warming tear-jerker about the life and times of a young hermaphrodite and his struggles with a sexually abusive father and the ensuing -2's.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-08-02 18:23:38 EDT (#)
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I'll give you a zero because it was entertaining to me, but you really need to post your own material
Submitted by abaddon (user info) at 2005-08-02 18:04:13 EDT (#)
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i'm not even going to try to read this, based upon the first sentence alone
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2005-08-02 17:50:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ajanssen (user info) at 2005-08-02 16:44:45 (#)
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You forgot "The Legend of Katastrofa" A heart warming tear-jerker about the life and times of a young hermaphrodite and his struggles with a sexually abusive father and the ensuing -2's.
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That comment is worth a +2, this post is worth far less than I can give it
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-08-02 16:46:51 EDT (#)
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uggh, this reminds me of the time I tried to read "Paradise Lost". my eyelids are drooping already.
Submitted by ajanssen (user info) at 2005-08-02 16:44:45 EDT (#)
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You forgot "The Legend of Katastrofa" A heart warming tear-jerker about the life and times of a young hermaphrodite and his struggles with a sexually abusive father and the ensuing -2's.