I’ll keep updating this until I get the entire way through. One of each is me seriously trying to summarize it, one is me doing it so that I might vent my frustrations about how terribly angry this all makes me. Not necessarily the fact that dear Randy assigned it so much as that it exists at all. Can you guess which is which?
Though, to be fair, Nadia and I were discussing how this would be a very interesting constraint, if it were done very meticulously. However, I still say that the people who could do this well, the ones who would use it as a wonderful poetic medium, are not the ones who will be making these bastardizations of the books.
Amazon’s reviews of the Twitterture book:
Extracts
a) Whales are large. Whales are often in literature. Whales are sometimes referred to as leviathans. Whales are very influential and important to this book.
b) Whales are everywhere! The bible! Sea! Songs! Science! As the author I’m surprised no one’s written a book about hunting a whale, as they have so permeated our society!
Chapter 1–Loomings
a) ohai A/s/l? jus call me 1shma3l. u wanna go sailing 4 a wha1e? ;) k c u soon
b) I’m Ishmael. The sea is addictive. I like being a sailor because I get paid to go to sea. I have a huge desire to hunt a very large whale.
Chapter 2–Carpet Bag
a) Packed up some shirts but missed my ship. Looked for an inn. Found the shadiest one-the Spouter Inn. Oh well, I’m poor. Let’s check it out.
b) Missed ship. Was cold. Wandered and wondered. Found the Spouter Inn. Went inside to inquire about a room.
Chapter 3–The Spouter-Inn
a) No rooms? But I don’t wanna share with a harpooner. Yum dumplings. I’ll just sleep on this bench then. Brrr. Fine, I’ll share. GAH CANNIBAL
b) Inn’s perfectly cheap. Ate dinner. No rooms, though. Slept on a bench before deciding to share. My roommate’s a cannibal. Didn’t like that.
Chapter 4–The Counterpane
a) woke up spooning with @Queequeg :) and his tomahawk :( remembered when my step?mom sent me to bed for 16 hrs lol Q got dressed like a weirdo
b) Awoke to @Queequeg’s arm about me and his tomahawk in my side. He became dressed in the rudest fashion.
Chapter 5–Breakfast
a) Sailing men of all sorts were herded like cows into breakfast. @Queequeg harpooned his meat!
b) nomnomnmnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom breakfast
Chapter 6–The Street
a) Went for a stroll, saw a bunch of characters, from the inexperienced sailor to the weathered man. Beautiful women in New Bedford.
b) Left the inn, saw some peeps, scoped out some hot chicks, off to Chapel.
Chapter 7– The Chapel
a) Our brothers of the sea have died here. With a solemn heart I sat down for the service.
b) Checked out the tombstones, saw @Queequeg hanging out. Let’s get my God on!
Chapter 8–The Pulpit
a) YO THIS CHAPEL IS JUST LIKE A BOAT
b) What a beautiful chapel, it is much like a ship on the sea.
Chapter 9– The Sermon
a) This Jonah shit is fucked. I’m gon’ go kill a whale now.
b) The preacher gave a fantastic sermon about Jonah and sin and ended on his knees.
Chapter 10–A Bosom Friend
a) Queequeg and I decided to be friends for life and bedfellows once more.
b) @Queequeg and I are hetero life partners! sMoKeD up, cuddled. No homo, though.
Chapter 11–Night Gown
a) Queequeg and I continued to chat. Fell asleep, woke up and felt dreadful. Q&I partook in his pipe.
b) @Queequeg and I fucked around for awhile. Woke up really fucked up so we smoked some more.
Chapter 12–Biographical
a) Queequeg told me of his royal hertiage and his advertures at sea. What an experienced and wise man.
b) YO @Queequeg is a fucking kinG! And he knows how to make this shrunken head into a bong lolz
Chapter 13–Wheelbarrow
a) @Queequeg n i rolled down the the docks 2 1/2 deep me him and the wheelbarrow lol got in a scuffle
b) Queequeg and I took a wheelbarrow of our things to the docks. We boarded the ship, Q almost threw someone overboard!
Chapter 14–Nantucket
a) Nothing of mention happened on the voyage. Nantucket is beautiful.
b) boredd ;)
Chapter 15–Chowder
a) We arrived at our inn and was served endless amounts of chowder by our hostess.
b) nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom chowder
Chapter 16–The Ship
a) Yojo suggests that I choose the ship. After considering three, I decided upon the Pequod. What characters run that ship!
b) @Yojo told me to find our whale ship. Craigslist ftW!
Chapter 17–Ramadan
a) Queequeg has taken to the most peculiar rest and fast that I have ever encountered. He only just rose today.
b) “Kick in the door, I look on the floor / It’s my bedfellow Queequeg and he’s fastin’ sum mo'” Cannibals ain’t shit
Chapter 18–His Mark
a) I cleverly convinced the captain that Queequeg is indeed Christian! My skill with rhetoric is even impressive to myself today.
b) Pulled a fast one on the captains for @Queequeg. You’re my bro, man!
Chapter 19–The Prophet
a) Met a queer fellow named Elijah. He both followed and annoyed us.
b) Motherfucker tried to slip us up but @Queequeg and I wouldn’t take his shit.
Chapter 20–All Astir
a) Busy on the ship.
b) Yo, shits busy, no time to tweet-haha
Chapter 21–Going Aboard
Hey, if you do a good enough job on this, Penguin might hire *you*.
the amazon review is funny; thanks for posting it.
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