Things that amuse me: in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review, there are letters to the editor from people named Prose and Page.
Month: August 2005
I’ve also received spam with a random selection from Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. I think it’s offical. The Great Spam Books movement is underway.
Today’s spam comes from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina — a sizeable chunk of Part II, Chapter 13, as a matter of fact. It’s like they’re starting their own little unsolicited e-mail reading club. At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before the local library is sponsored by those Viagra-encased Rolexes and the Nigerian Minister of Finance.
Okay, it was a little funnier when I read it out of context on Boing Boing:
He came up with the idea after his sister Sarah complained that Elvis was keeping her awake at night by playing for hours on his exercise wheel.
But the article’s still missing the important “his pet hamster, Elvis” part. Personally, I think it’s much more amusing to think it was Elvis Presley (or Costello…or Mitchell…or, heck, even Duran) in the exercise wheel that was keeping Peter’s sister awake at night.