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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Twitter Book Reimagines Literary Masterpieces in 140 Characters]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/21/book-reimagines-literary-masterpieces-in-140-characters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/21/book-reimagines-literary-masterpieces-in-140-characters/</guid><description><![CDATA[Twitter/Textspeak = Newspeak]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[UnremarkableFien]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2009 3:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New Twitter Book Reimagines Literary Masterpieces in 140 Characters]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/21/book-reimagines-literary-masterpieces-in-140-characters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/21/book-reimagines-literary-masterpieces-in-140-characters/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's kind of scary. I did this same thing to several dozen classics on my Twitter feed @Wiswell a couple of months ago after news that somebody was trying to fit all of Moby Dick onto Twitter. I had two purposes: to highlight how so much of the canon rests on torturing characters, and to show how Twitter's brevity robs stories of anything appealing or meritous about them. To me, it was a gag. I'm not surprised somebody closer to publishing had the same idea - we're probably just two of thousands who thought it would be funny, and we were simply willing to do it. Wish I'd known there was a paycheck in it, though.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John_W]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 30th 2009 12:56PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
