Twitterature

Well-known works of literature reconstituted as tweets (i.e. texts of up to 140 characters including spaces).

Time’s beginning is time’s end and time’s end is time’s beginning: a mystical opus in verse that begins where it ends or vice versa. (Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot)

Fiend offends God, falls from Grace into garden, tempts coy couple with forbidden fruit, gets them evicted and fouls up everyone’s future. (Paradise Lost, Milton)

Honeymoon hell in hotel where inhibited couple build up to sex. He comes too soon, she goes too soon and their dreams end in angst. (On ChesilBeach, Ian McEwan)

Man weds woman, woos her daughter, woman dies, man dupes daughter, looses daughter, murders madman, goes to jail – Lust’s Labours Lost! (Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov)

Scrooge screws Bob and his tiny tot, Tim. Dead partner screws Scrooge with scary ghosts. All ends well. Tim thrives. Happy Christmas! (A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens)