Shorter Short Shorts

[digitaldiscipline]

[which has nothing to do with shortshort, incidentally]

Cell phone SMS text message retellings of classics in literature.

Naturally, there's a stuffed shirt who insists that the irony and nuance is lost. . . frankly, so is a lot of the blubber (hello, Dickens, you paid-by-the-line asshat).

Makes me want to try my hand at it.

Trn&trn, bird cn't hr flcnr.
Falln apart, ctr brks.
ANARCHY. evrybdy frks out 4 2nd comng.
? rgh beast go2 bthlhm 4bday?

Comments

[sukipot.livejournal.com]

My favorite Yeats, reduced to SMS text.

In a way, it all falls so deliciously together. :)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I figured I'd try that first, since it's the one I've got memorized. I may have a go at Prufrock later, if only to make delicarose's brain itch.

[ivy]

Dare 2 eat a peach?
Wear trsrs rolled.
No one sings for me.
Drown.