Thoughts about Letterbox series (definitely OT this time)

2 messages in this thread | Started on 2007-08-06

RE: [LbNA] Re: Thoughts about Letterbox series (definitely OT this time)

From: Suzanne Coe (wilmcoe@yahoo.com) | Date: 2007-08-06 21:30:36 UTC-07:00

Reminds me of the start of my favorite version of Beowulf:

Monster Grendel's taste was plainish.
Breakfast? Just a couple Danish....

=D
Sheba

xxxxxxxx wrote:
And writing -- why do authors spend so much time writing and readers spend
so much time reading??

Moby Dick: "Once upon a time there was a whale. It was a white whale.
Captain Ahab was an unhappy man. Captain Ahab was obsessed with killing the
white whale. The end." Really now, doesn't that say it all?

Ah oooooooooh, the way Shakespeare could be condensed. Look at the kudos
we'd get from high school English students around the country. Hamlet has
29,551 words! I'll bet we could knock that down to 10,000 or so and
everybody would still get the idea just fine.

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RE: [LbNA] Re: Thoughts about Letterbox series (definitely OT this time)

From: Ellen Dill (thetravelersfour@yahoo.com) | Date: 2007-08-08 16:47:57 UTC-07:00

Okay, I've only read these so far, but that version of Beowulf is the funniest thing I've read in a long time!!!!!!!!! Thanks!

Suzanne Coe wrote: Reminds me of the start of my favorite version of Beowulf:

Monster Grendel's taste was plainish.
Breakfast? Just a couple Danish....

=D
Sheba

xxxxxxxx wrote:
And writing -- why do authors spend so much time writing and readers spend
so much time reading??

Moby Dick: "Once upon a time there was a whale. It was a white whale.
Captain Ahab was an unhappy man. Captain Ahab was obsessed with killing the
white whale. The end." Really now, doesn't that say it all?

Ah oooooooooh, the way Shakespeare could be condensed. Look at the kudos
we'd get from high school English students around the country. Hamlet has
29,551 words! I'll bet we could knock that down to 10,000 or so and
everybody would still get the idea just fine.

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