the copy righter

[Mark David Tristan Brenchley]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Poetry Provider wrote:

>  From the Washington Post
> 
> Invitational contest, which calls them Merge-Matic Books: Readers were 
> asked to combine the works of two authors, and to provide a suitable blurb.
> 
> Second Runner-Up: Machiavelli's The Little Prince.
> 
> Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's tale as presented by 
> Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and 
> intriguing characters, all of whom are executed.
> 
> First Runner-Up: Green Eggs and Hamlet
> 
> Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would 
> not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not 
> wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery.
> 
> And the Winner: Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities.
> 
> An '80s yuppie is denied books. He does not object, or even notice.
> 
> 
> Honorable Mentions:
> 
> Where's Walden?
> 
> Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in each richly-detailed 
> drawing loses its appeal when itquickly becomes clear that he is always in 
> the woods.
> 
> Catch-22 in the Rye
> 
> Holden learns that if you're insane, you'll probably flunk out of prep 
> school, but if you're flunking out of
> prepschool, you're probably not insane.
> 
> 2001: A Space Iliad
> 
> The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10-year war against the Greeks after 
> falling victim to the Y2K bug.
> 
> Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi
> 
> Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that 
> the mongoose first came to India on araft from Polynesia.
> 
> The Maltese Faulkner
> 
> Is the black bird a tortured symbol of Sam's struggles with race and 
> family? Does it signify his decay of soul along with the soul of the Old 
> South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts to understand? Or is it 
> worth a cool mil?
> 
> Jane Eyre Jordan
> 
> Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead the Chicago Bulls to 
> the NBA championship.
> 
> Looking for Mr. Godot.
> 
> A young woman waits for Mr. Right to enter her life. She has a loooong wait.
> 
> The Scarlet Pimpernel Letter
> 
> An 18th-century English nobleman leads a double life, freeing comely young 
> adulteresses from the prisons of post-Revolution France.
> 
> Lorna Dune
> 
> An English farmer, Paul Atreides, falls for the daughter of a notorious 
> rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a career as a giant worm jockey in 
> order to impress her.
> 
> The Remains of the Day of the Jackal
> 
> A formal English butler puts his loyalty to his employer above all else, 
> until he is persuaded to join a plot to assassinate Charles deGaulle.
> 
> The Invisible Man of La Mancha
> 
> Don Quixote discovers a mysterious elixir which renders him invisible. He 
> proceeds to go on a mad rampage of corruption and terror, attacking 
> innocent people in the streets and all the while singing "To fight the 
> Invisible Man!" until he is finally stopped by a windmill.
> 
> Singing in the Black Rain
> 
> A gang of vicious Japanese drug lords beat the stuffingsout of Gene Kelly.
> 
> Of Three Blind Mice and Men
> 
> Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off by a psychopathic farmer's wife. 
> Did you ever see such a sight n your life?
> 
> Planet of the Grapes of Wrath
> 
> Astronaut lands on mysterious planet, only to discover that it is his very 
> own home planet of Earth, which has been taken over by the Joads, a race of 
> dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously developed rudimentary technology 
> and evolved the ability to speak after exposure to nuclear radiation.
> 
> Paradise Lost in Space
> 
> Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying 
> saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist and two annoying children.
> 
> The Exorstentialist
> 
> Camus psychological thriller about a priest who casts out a demon by 
> convincing it that there's really no purpose to what it's doing.
> 
> Gone With the Wind in the Willows
> 
> A lovely tempestuous southern belle is inflamed by passion for an English 
> toad. She pursues him - realising too late she loves his sardonic friend 
> Ratty all along. "The death of Mole, against the backdrop of burning 
> Atlanta, is one of the finest things of its kind in literature." 
> (Gamekeeper's Weekly)
> 
> apologies if you have seen this before
> kindly sent by Kate T
> 
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