Salon’s Table Talk discussion group goes wild with a Six words to great lit’rature thread. Here are a few of my favorites:
The times were good. Also bad.
A Tale of Two Cities
Man Sleeps with Mother. Gouging Ensues.
Oedipus the King
Woman Sleeps with Preacher. Branding Ensues.
The Scarlet Letter
Hell, Purgatory, Heaven and sweet Beatrice.
The Divine Comedy
Vile man pities self, hates world.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Nothing happens. Then nothing happens again.
Waiting for Godot
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kathi
hairy ass kisses the fairy queen
(a midsummer night’s dream)
MeGo (Melissa Gould)
White boy, funny name, black friend.
Huckleberry Finn
MeGo (Melissa Gould)
Many French words, some about cake.
À la recherche du temps perdu
Lionel Ancelet
Under the age, riding old sage.
(Lolita)
Evelyn
Whale eats man’s leg. Stalking ensues.
Evelyn
Two men. A woman. Civil War.
Evelyn
Stayed in bed. Kept a journal.
yvonne
Remarkable strength. Not a pushover. Willpower.
INVICTUS
Takes his punches. Walks away humbly.
INVICTUS
Someone whos knows who he is.
INVICTUS
NO matter what happens, I decided.
INVICTUS
Yen
Man learns lessons while seeking God.
“The Pilgrim’s Progress,” by John Bunyan
sean
Man versus nature. Nature wins. –Moby Dick
sean
War ain’t good. So it goes. — Slaughterhouse Five
Nikki
Three pages plot. Rest is sex.
-Voyeur
ali
Short people obsessed with shiny jewlery.
– Lord of the Rings
Poppy Juliet Bourne
Gibberish. Gibberish. Gibberish. Gibberish. The End.
(The Sound and the Fury)
Olivia
Bitterness is like cancer; eats host.
Olivia
Nearer the dawn, darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseus
Gibberish. Wait, making sense now. Brilliant!
The Sound and the Fury
Peeps
Eats biscuit, remembers to write memoirs.
In Search of Lost Time – Proust
Peeps
Shipwrecked boy invents zippers for trousers
Lord of the Flies
Peeps
Visonary author invents TV reality show
1984
Poppy Juliet Bourne
Hit thirty. Lost the plot completely.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Kate West
Pulled sword, became king, betrayed. Legend.
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
Kate West
Played God, made man, learned lesson.
FRANKENSTEIN
Poppy Juliet Bourne
More sex than teenage boy’s daydreams.
(Earth’s Children Series)
Acerebel
Murdered father. Horny mother. Suicidal son?
(Hamlet)
kara bernatowicz
love, hot-tubs, fauns, pomegranates, Mardi Gras!
-Jitterbug Perfume
kara bernatowicz
role models, references for drug use
-sisters of the extreme
kara bernatowicz
gambling, “broads”, fishnet stockings, children’s book
-French Kitty in – Las Vegas Pair-a-Dice
kara bernatowicz
The unbearable labour of reading, zzzzzzzz
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Elaine S.
Teen love. Faked death. Real suicide.
(Romeo and Juliet)