pomo opportuntiy
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Thu Jul 31 00:09:31 CDT 1997
It's not Pynchon related, but surely the wits on this list can do
something with this:
Subject: Collaborate with John Updike and (maybe) win $100,000!
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
Many of you know John Updike as the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and
the author of great American novels such as "The Witches of Eastwick"
and "Rabbit at Rest." This summer, get to know him as the author
whose words open our "Greatest Tale Ever Told," the first-ever
collaborative story written by Amazon.com customers. You're invited
to help this unfinished story take shape and to enter our $100,000
Grand Prize drawing.
Forty-four lucky (and talented) people each will win $1,000 and join
John Updike in writing a groundbreaking online story at Amazon.com.
One lucky entrant will win $100,000. Here's how it works:
1) From July 29 to September 12, visit our contest at
http://www.amazon.com/greatest-tale-ever-told
2) Enter to win our $100,000 Grand Prize simply by entering your name
and e-mail address; or
3) Enter to win one of the 44 $1,000 daily prizes (plus the $100,000
Grand Prize) by coauthoring the Greatest Tale Ever Told. As the story
grows day by day, we hope you'll indulge your creative inspiration and
send us a few sentences that pick up the story where it left off the
previous day. Every day, the winning entry will be added to the end
of the story and the contest will continue. On September 12,
Mr. Updike will tie it all together by tailoring a fitting finale to
the collaborative story that emerges.
John Updike opens our story with an intriguing first paragraph that
begins: "Miss Tasso Polk at ten-ten alighted from the elevator onto
the olive tiles of the nineteenth floor only lightly nagged by a sense
of something wrong..." There's more online, and it's a great
beginning, but only you can tell us where it goes from here.
You can enter once per day, so we invite you to come back often and
let your creative energies help us write the Greatest Tale Ever Told.
D O U G M I L L I S O N ||||||||||| millison at online-journalist.com
SHOPPER: He entered shop after shop, priced nothing, spoke
no word, and looked at all objects with a wild and vacant stare.
--E.A. Poe (cited by Rem Koolhaas in S,M,L,XL)
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