What kind of literary work are you?
Lunatic Goofballs
12-09-2005, 22:22
If you were transformed suddenly by...oh, for instance, a wacko with omnipotent powers into a work of literature, what kind do you think you'd become?
(poll coming)
Keruvalia
12-09-2005, 22:24
No poll yet, but I'm pretty sure I'd be something dark and brooding, but with a deliciously pragmatic wit .... maybe something like Edgar Poe or William Blake.
Pencil 17
12-09-2005, 22:27
I'd be one of those stories where you don't know whether the amnesic main character is awake or dreaming or whether they're in a virtual world, in a virtual world, in a virtual world... or both of those things at once...
Some sort of psychological Sci-fi.
Books that take place in the future are great. Much more interesting then the present.
Lunatic Goofballs
12-09-2005, 22:30
I'd be one of those stories where you don't know whether the amnesic main character is awake or dreaming or whether they're in a virtual world, in a virtual world, in a virtual world... or both of those things at once...
Some sort of psychological Sci-fi.
Sounds a bit like the American Presidency. :p
Sumamba Buwhan
12-09-2005, 22:30
I'd be a far-side comic book
HotRodia
12-09-2005, 22:32
I would be an anthology of works of various genres, some good and some bad.
Pencil 17
12-09-2005, 22:34
Sounds a bit like the American Presidency. :p
Zing!
Well, that is how the present state of things has made me feel.
The blessed Chris
12-09-2005, 22:34
Are we really this bored?
I'd be a cook book though....
[NS]Simonist
12-09-2005, 23:04
Definitely be historical fiction. Probably something only barely inaccurate enough to fit into the "fiction" category, though. Because otherwise I'm just livin' an old-school lie.
German Nightmare
12-09-2005, 23:25
I picked SciFi from the list, but after giving it some more thought, I should have said super-hero comic :D
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
12-09-2005, 23:29
I'd be an anthology of short stories, as I change tacks seemingly at random and can't actually stick to one set of beliefs or master plan for very long before I've moved to another (occasionally directly opposing) set of ideas.
Hard to be certain as we are nowhere near the end but I suspect either one of those interminable Russian novels that takes forever to go nowhere or one of those Stephen King novels where it starts out interesting and much information is given, gets boring for a long time before concluding in a massive confusing jumble.
HowTheDeadLive
12-09-2005, 23:51
I'm porn baby, pure porn, yeah baby yeah :)
A collection of satirical essays :D
Copiosa Scotia
13-09-2005, 00:10
I'd be a Jonathan Swift essay.
I'd be a collection of scary short stories, sci-fi and horror, some Lovecraftian brooding gloomy stuff.
Wait, what's that noise? :(
The lights, where are the lights? What is that sound?
Something gelatinous, oozing, my foot, my leg, the pain---
The Anarchist Cookbook. Now where did I put me lockpick kit and mask?
New Fuglies
13-09-2005, 01:11
I think I'd be an off colour limerick. :D
Chainik Hocker
13-09-2005, 01:16
I'd be a Terry Pratchett novel. Specificaly, Night Watch.
If you were transformed suddenly by...oh, for instance, a wacko with omnipotent powers into a work of literature, what kind do you think you'd become?
(poll coming)
something in a journal of botony, or some sort of poem(either long and chant-like, or short and about nature)(despite how i despise poetry, i'm better at it than almost everyone in my class, and i've been published.)
Caer Lupinus
13-09-2005, 01:59
I'll be a sign put up on their front yard that says "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."
Myrmidonisia
13-09-2005, 02:25
A dull, long-winded textbook. And expensive, too.
Myrmidonisia
13-09-2005, 02:27
If you were transformed suddenly by...oh, for instance, a wacko with omnipotent powers into a work of literature, what kind do you think you'd become?
(poll coming)
So where do you end up? A collection of Dave Barry columns or a volume of O. Henry stories?
Antikythera
13-09-2005, 03:00
i would be eather a sci fi or historical fiction
Lunatic Goofballs
13-09-2005, 22:41
So where do you end up? A collection of Dave Barry columns or a volume of O. Henry stories?
I'm "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. *nod*
http://nastystart.org/images/news/wherethewildthingsare11042003.jpg
Rhursbourg
13-09-2005, 22:58
ooh I would be one of Biggles Books or Just William
Optima Justitia
13-09-2005, 23:13
I'd be a list of extremely difficult spelling words.
Derided as Pulp Trash/Psychotic Rantings and universally ignored for a couple of centuries before being "discovered" to be a phycho-historical/philosophical work that is almost always right 99.9% of the time. ;)
Myrmidonisia
13-09-2005, 23:29
I'm "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. *nod*
http://nastystart.org/images/news/wherethewildthingsare11042003.jpg
Good choice.
Dishonorable Scum
13-09-2005, 23:38
I'd be horror. Specifically a pseudo-Lovecraftian pastiche, replete with unnameable terrors, cosmic evil, and puny, helpless humans fleeing in fear.
Or I might be a Sears catalog. Same thing, really.
:p
German Nightmare
13-09-2005, 23:52
I'm "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. *nod*
http://nastystart.org/images/news/wherethewildthingsare11042003.jpg
Wow! I'm highly impressed. I remember that we used to have that story read to use over and over again in Kindergarten and I still remember how the windows in our group were all painted up with the beasts for carnival one season.
Great choice!!!
Muravyets
14-09-2005, 04:48
A dull, long-winded textbook. And expensive, too.
I'll bet I've got that beat for obscurity. I'd be "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne. It's my all-time favorite book, and I think I'm one of the five people who've read it since WWII. :D
Muravyets
14-09-2005, 04:49
Wow! I'm highly impressed. I remember that we used to have that story read to use over and over again in Kindergarten and I still remember how the windows in our group were all painted up with the beasts for carnival one season.
Great choice!!!
So, you'd be "Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust, then? :)
"Chicken Soup for your damned soul. There is no hope. Forget it. There is no break. All your base are belong to us! SUBMIT!"
Yeah, that's just the title.
Then it goes on to the author...
By: HA! Thought you saw the last of ME did you? Well you didn't! I'm going to make you regret reading my book!"
Melkor Unchained
14-09-2005, 05:08
Does it surprise anyone that I answered "Stereo Instructions?"
Almost impossible to understand at times, very technical, but once you figure it all out, we're rockin'!
Does it surprise anyone that I answered "Stereo Instructions?"
Almost impossible to understand at times, very technical, but once you figure it all out, we're rockin'!
And of course, no one ever reads the instructions. ;)
Melkor Unchained
14-09-2005, 05:11
Precisely.
I think I only qualify to become a clever bumper sticker. :D
Sumamba, my husband says he would be a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip!
Phriykui Linoy Li Esis
14-09-2005, 06:02
I'd be a work of philosophical genius, blinding pure logic and some leaning towards theories concerning good and what is best for the world and a thorough understanding of why people do not use reasonning where it is most needed leading to hints of the tragedy of sentience and it's confusion and matter over mind.
Neo Rogolia
14-09-2005, 06:05
Most likely an epic poem written by John Milton >.>
Gelfland
14-09-2005, 06:59
a really strange, but interesting book-on-cd. like what might get if you locked herman melville, rodger waters and edgar allen poe in a room together.
a really strange, but interesting book-on-cd. like what might get if you locked herman melville, rodger waters and edgar allen poe in a room together.Dang, killed my response, I was going to say:
" a gloating Melville and the Reverend Dodgeson saying rites over a dead Waters?"