MANGLED TITLES….
July 14th, 2005
These awards are given to hybrid texts, the more fanciful
the better. This year’s short list includes:
“Green Eggs and Hamlet”
Would you kill him in his bed?
Thrust a dagger through his head?
I would not, could not, kill the King.
I could not do that evil thing.
I would not wed this girl, you see.
Now get her to a nunnery.
In “Catch 22 in the Rye” Holden Caulfield learns that if
you’re insane, you’ll probably flunk out of prep school,
but if you’re flunking out of prep school you’re probably
not insane.
“The Remains of the Day of the Jackal” is best left unexplained.