Homer's Odyssey on Twitter

Eric Alt imagines how Homer's Odyssey would have read, had it instead been written 140 characters at a time on twitter.

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mdh

i’m waiting for Shitter, your laptop makes little wet-farting sounds of all the puerile ideas that come up to waste your existence ‘laughing’ about

Clearly you’ve never been to the Apple App store.

iFart (and it’s derivatives) abound!
Takuan

fourteen hours? LUXURY!
buddy66

So try it with Finnegan’s Wake <>.
mdh

Buddy, Is there even one 140-character sentence in F.W.?
Anonymous

It makes one wonder why Odysseus didn’t just open a new tab and go to Google maps instead of spending all his time on Twitter.
Takuan

lots. Every 140 characters.
mdh

heh.
John Markos O’Neill

I am in my house, killing suitor d00dz. – 1 minute ago, from web.
Anonymous

I think I hate hearing about twitter more than Michael Vick or Brett Favre at this point. Come on world, you can dumb yourself down a little more!
mezzapazza

Even better – A Facebook Haggadah: http://9a4440c5.fb.joyent.us/haggadah/ultraModern2.php
Anonymous

Cute and clever, but a little too much with the lolspeak.
aguane

Cute and clever, but a little too much with the lolspeak.

Isn’t that kind of the point?
jfrancis

What do you mean, ‘if?’ – Let’s put it on Twitter!
signalnine

This whole [classic work of literature|historical event] but on [Twitter|Facebook|World of Warcraft] thing is getting really old.
jfrancis

How about MySpace Status and Mood Updates – as they would appear on Twitter?
gtron

i’m waiting for Shitter, your laptop makes little wet-farting sounds of all the puerile ideas that come up to waste your existence ‘laughing’ about
Daemon

This isn’t improving my opinion of twitter in the slightest.
Mindpowered

As much as I like seeing classical literature being raped like Lucretia, this is stunningly tasteless and moronic.

I’m now going to douse my eyes with lye, to remove that screenshot.
Nelson.C

Is it Twitter’s turn for Hate-Week?
Secret_Life_of_Plants

Here is the one from Facebook (from before the horrible redesign):

http://home.comcast.net/~fuuchan/aeneidonfacebookfinal.png
Anonymous

Great. Now I know what happens so I don’t need to read the book.
Anonymous

Don’t be hay’in on subjunctive, “If H. O. WERE Written on Twitter”
eustace

Valentine Michael Smith on twitter…

hot nurse just came in with water this looks good
five minutes ago

waterbeds are the bomb
two hours ago
Rampant

Why was my comment deleted? For not enjoying this as everyone else apparently does? What backward moderating!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Rampnat,
  
  Your comment wasn’t deleted. It was in the pending queue because you weren’t signed in and I haven’t had electricity for fourteen hours and, if you hadn’t noticed, we just had a big system upgrade and half the comments aren’t making it through. But if you want to feel persecuted, don’t let me stop you.
mdh

Why was my comment deleted?

Scroll to the top of any page, click “Moderation Policy”. Happy reading. Enjoy the ice cream.
Ape Lad

You can read Moby Dick in it’s entirety on twitter at twitter.com/publicdomain. Next up will be Alice in Wonderland, which is likely very well suited to the format.