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The Not-So-Bookish Savor Twit Lit

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(Newser) – Consumers short on time and even shorter on attention spans are turning to 140-character summaries of Great Books on Twitter, reports the Telegraph. Classics have been "distilled" into prose Twitterers can read in the time it takes to sneeze. Waiting for Godot? No problem: "Vladimir and Estragon stand next to tree and wait for Godot. Their status is not updated." Even pithier is Lady Chatterly's Lover: "Upper-class woman gets it on with gamekeeper."

A Twitter search.
A Twitter search.   (©liako)
Read the classics, almost all of them, in an hour.
Read the classics, almost all of them, in an hour.
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skeptik
May 12, 09 8:30 AM CDT
So can anyone tell me exactly why a person who uses Twitter is referred to as a "Tweeter" instead of a Twit? Reply
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May 14, 09 3:14 PM CDT
Twibrary ( http://twitter.com/twibrary ) - "Great books in 140 characters or less" * Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse-Five" - Billy Pilgrim time trips from firebombed Dresden to middle-class surburbia to alien zoo with porn star. * Steinbeck "Of Mice and Men" - In Depression-era America, George tries to protect simpleton Lenny who accidentally crushes small animals. * Melville "Moby Dick" - Seaman Ishmael serves under peg-leg frigate captain obsessed with harpooning white sperm whale. Heavily metaphorical. * Cervantes "Don Quixote" - Aging Spanish nobleman with delusions of chivalry goes Medieval on windmills and finds sanity an impossible dream. * Faulkner "The Sound and the Fury" - Jason, Caddy, Dilsey, Maury/Benjy, Quentin and later Quentin for 4 days and 18 years in Yoknapatawpha. etc.... Reply
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May 14, 09 3:16 PM CDT
Twibrary ( http://twitter.com/twibrary ) - "Great books in 140 characters or less" * Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse-Five" - Billy Pilgrim time trips from firebombed Dresden to middle-class surburbia to alien zoo with porn star. * Steinbeck "Of Mice and Men" - In Depression-era America, George tries to protect simpleton Lenny who accidentally crushes small animals. * Melville "Moby Dick" - Seaman Ishmael serves under peg-leg frigate captain obsessed with harpooning white sperm whale. Heavily metaphorical. * Cervantes "Don Quixote" - Aging Spanish nobleman with delusions of chivalry goes Medieval on windmills and finds sanity an impossible dream. * Faulkner "The Sound and the Fury" - Jason, Caddy, Dilsey, Maury/Benjy, Quentin and later Quentin for 4 days and 18 years in Yoknapatawpha. etc., etc., .... Reply
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