8.24.2001
Two responses to last week's Merge-Matic postings. Trip writes:
I thought that stuff looked familiar. That merge-matic contest was from March 1999! You can keep track of what they do in that space weekly, should you be a glutton for wordplay.
And Josh Gitelson made up some most clever MMs of his own:
"Absalome, Absalome!"
Another Faulknerian hybrid in which several characters recount the decline of a Southern family. The coup de grace comes when the matriarch demands the severed head of a man who, through a twisted series of mistaken identities, turns out to be her lone remaining heir.
"The Sun Also Spracht Zarathustra"
A turgid novel about the �bermensch, wasting away in Spain as he philosophizes over his absinthe.
"Little Women in Love"
The sordid truth behind all that coquettry�
"Oleanna Karenina"
Anna Sues the Prince for harrassment...
"The Old Man and the Sea Gull"
That fucking bird keeps eluding him�
