By Alexander Aciman
Hatched in a dorm room on the mind belief that's the college of Chicago, Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a sequence of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. delivering a crash path in additional than 80 of the world's best-known books, from Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to Twilight and Dante to The Da Vinci Code. it is the final Cliffs Notes. simply because as nice because the classics are, who has time to learn these massive, lengthy books anymore?
Sample tweets:
From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING at the back of THE CURTAIN???
From the Harry Potter sequence: Oh guy huge match at my institution this year!! PSYCHED! i am hoping not anyone dies this 12 months, and each 12 months as though by way of clockwork.
From The nice Gatsby: Gatsby is so emo. Who cries approximately his female friend whereas consuming breakfast...IN THE POOL?
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Why is Claudius telling me what to do again? YOUʼRE NOT MY REAL DAD! In fact you killed my real dad. :( 2bornt2b? Can one tweet beyond the mortal coil? I wrote a play. I hope everyone comes tonight! 7pm! Tickets are free w/ great sense of irony. Uncle just confessed to Dadʼs murder. I had a knife to that fat asshole but bitched out. Now heʼs alive and still taking to bed with that beautiful wo—. . er, my mother. Gonna try to talk some sense into Mom because boyfriend totally killed Dad. I sense this is the moment of truth, the moment of candor and - WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???
Won, of course. Now this guy must sit on my horned helmet. A betʼs a bet. A faraway nation has a monster they want me to kill. They better have good wine so I can get crunk! Diet Sprite is also good. What a bad ass monster. He likes to eat dudesʼ heads. Heads! Thatʼs intense. Ah, fuck it; Iʼll deal in the morning. Iʼve gotta crash. Next morning: HOLY LOKI! Heʼs eating my companions, and not just their heads. Quick psych eval: Iʼd blame his mother for naming him Grendel? Give me my broadsword and axe so I may slay this ugly prick.
Heʼs nothing to me. Frank is coming back!!!!!!! My heart swoons and dances at the notion! Itʼs too bad I never want to get married. There was a ball last night. Frank and I were grinding it every which way. Shawty got lo lo lo lo. Why is Frank spending so much time with Jane? When I ask he insists nothing is happening. @Frankfurtive: Do you promise sheʼs just a friend? Do you? Promise? Not that I care . . How come I got so hot and sticky under my petticoat when I danced with Knightley? Probably best not to think about it.
