A company offering mobile phones to students has hired Professor John Sutherland, professor emeritus of English Literature at University College London, to offer subscribers text message summaries and quotes from literary classics.
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Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy is rendered: “2B? NT2B?=???”. At the end of Romeo and Juliet, “bothLuvrs kill Emselves,” while Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice concludes when “Evry1GtsMaryd.”
*curls up in fetal position, weeps*
The Biography Channel will be airing all six episodes of the 1995 miniseries of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE on Friday, November 25, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Lori Smith wrote to tell us about her weblog, Following Austen, in which she will tell the story of her month-long trip to the U.K. last summer to visit various sites related to Jane Austen.
(And yes, the Editrix WILL finish her travelogue one of these days!!!)
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