Two responses to last week's Merge-Matic postings. Trip writes:
I thought that stuff looked familiar. That merge-matic contest was from March 1999! You can keep track of what they do in that space weekly, should you be a glutton for wordplay.
And Josh Gitelson made up some most clever MMs of his own:
"Absalome, Absalome!"
Another Faulknerian hybrid in which several characters recount the decline of a Southern family. The coup de grace comes when the matriarch demands the severed head of a man who, through a twisted series of mistaken identities, turns out to be her lone remaining heir.
"The Sun Also Spracht Zarathustra"
A turgid novel about the übermensch, wasting away in Spain as he philosophizes over his absinthe.
"Little Women in Love"
The sordid truth behind all that coquettry…
"Oleanna Karenina"
Anna Sues the Prince for harrassment...
"The Old Man and the Sea Gull"
That fucking bird keeps eluding him…
