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Monday, November 1, 2010

BOOKMASH #3: by JAMES

The Republic
East of Eden,
Light in August,
Oryx and Crake
Catch-22
Leviathan
Praying through the Bible.
Purgatorio.

(Only question is whether the plural of "leviathan" is "leviathan," as I assert, or, "leviathans."  Don't have any good way to take photos. Sorry.  --James)

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8 comments:

  1. I didn't read this right the first time, and I was looking for some deep symbolism (maybe it's there, and now I'm missing it in my new interest in the fun of the reading). This is how I see it:

    The Republic: East of eden, light in August, [where] Oryx and Crake catch 22 leviathans praying through the Bible. Purgatorio.

    It reminds me of a silly string of tongue twisters I learned from my dad:

    One big fat hen; two ducks; three plump partriges; four sca-reaming wild geese; five limerick oysters; six bones from a Macedonian horse; seven sailing ships sailing from Oronoko to Madagascar; eight elegant elephants embarking for Europe; nine nimble nobleman nonchalantly nibbling nonperenials;
    ten tipsy tailors timidly torturing a terrified titmouse; eleven Corinthian columns careening cautiously closely contiguous to the covered catacombs of a Catholic convent; twelve turbulent tomtits twittering tumultuously in the top of a tall tamarack tree; thirteen thirsty thespians thriftily thumbing through thirty-thousand theological theses.

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  2. Hahaha. Crazy that it is basically the exact same thing. The last line is what makes the similarity scary. I'm sure I'll be taken to court for plagiarism soon enough.

    The link works fine. Thanks!

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  3. I think you're safe on the plagiarism front....

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  4. Right, as long as this silly little poem doesn't become popular. Then I will have 8 lawsuits waiting for me the next morning.

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  5. Hey, bad publicity's better than no publicity, right?

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  6. Hmm... I'm thinking about LeBron James and Tiger Woods here. Not sure... It's a close call.

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  7. LOL that reminds me of this that sportswriter Joe Posnanski put together after the Tiger Woods voice message debacle.

    "For those of you who have not heard the message, here it is in verse:


    A Tiger In Retreat
    By Tiger Woods

    Hey
    It’s uh
    It’s Tiger
    I need you to do me a huge favor.
    Um.
    Can you
    please
    uh
    take your name off
    your phone my wife went through
    my phone
    and
    may be
    calling you.
    So if you can
    please
    take your name off that.
    And um.
    What do you call it?
    Just have it
    as a number on the voice mail.
    Just have it as your telephone number.
    OK?
    You got to do this for me.
    Huge.
    Quickly.
    All right.
    Bye."

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