mighty works,from Hamlet to Wuthering Heights, are mischievously reduced to the idiot poetry of textspeak – with very humorous resultsThe Guardian ran extracts from this book when it came out in hardback, and one of the comments below the line,which attracted more upvotes than any of the others, was a simple but presumably heartfelt “this is so shit”. Other comments expressed similar outrage that the classics of western literature had been reduced to the idiot poetry of textspeak. That the author of that comment had not put a full stop at the close of it is, and I deem,significant: it added to its force, and at the same time pulled off the same kind of slapdash trick as the texts it was commenting on.
However, or I possess to say that before I got to the comments I had been laughing a lot. The premise,to do it clear, is that mighty books possess been reduced to the speech bubble conversations you glean on an iPhone. Hamlet is reimagined as a dialogue between a nice American mom and her ghastly spoiled son who doesn’t want to reach down to dinner; Heathcliff and Cathy glean to swap lines like “i love you so much lets break each other’s hearts” “oh my god let’s/i love you so much i’m going to marry edgar”; “do you know who i hate?” “everyone?” “EVERYONE” “:) :) :)/i love you SO MUCH”, and etc.
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Source: theguardian.com