Six Word Cliffs Notes
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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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hairy ass kisses the fairy queen
(a midsummer night’s dream)
White boy, funny name, black friend.
Huckleberry Finn
Many French words, some about cake.
À la recherche du temps perdu
Under the age, riding old sage.
(Lolita)
Whale eats man’s leg. Stalking ensues.
Two men. A woman. Civil War.
Stayed in bed. Kept a journal.
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
Man learns lessons while seeking God.
“The Pilgrim’s Progress,” by John Bunyan
Man versus nature. Nature wins. –Moby Dick
War ain’t good. So it goes. — Slaughterhouse Five
Three pages plot. Rest is sex.
-Voyeur
Short people obsessed with shiny jewlery.
- Lord of the Rings
Gibberish. Gibberish. Gibberish. Gibberish. The End.
(The Sound and the Fury)
Bitterness is like cancer; eats host.
Nearer the dawn, darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gibberish. Wait, making sense now. Brilliant!
The Sound and the Fury
Eats biscuit, remembers to write memoirs.
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Shipwrecked boy invents zippers for trousers
Lord of the Flies
Visonary author invents TV reality show
1984
Hit thirty. Lost the plot completely.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Pulled sword, became king, betrayed. Legend.
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
Played God, made man, learned lesson.
FRANKENSTEIN
More sex than teenage boy’s daydreams.
(Earth’s Children Series)
Murdered father. Horny mother. Suicidal son?
(Hamlet)
love, hot-tubs, fauns, pomegranates, Mardi Gras!
-Jitterbug Perfume
role models, references for drug use
-sisters of the extreme
gambling, “broads”, fishnet stockings, children’s book
-French Kitty in - Las Vegas Pair-a-Dice
The unbearable labour of reading, zzzzzzzz
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Teen love. Faked death. Real suicide.
(Romeo and Juliet)
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