Good God
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*
November 17th, 2005 at 2:09 am
…I need my tea. Now.
November 17th, 2005 at 8:36 pm
That’s cheesy!!
November 18th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
end of the world as we know of.
November 18th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
Oh God. That is just…retched! heh.
November 19th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
It burns!
(great blog, BTW)