cliffs notes in haiku

from one hundred great books in haiku by david bader:

note: if you know me, you will know my extreme disdain for cliffs notes. go there at your peril.
what's below is for laughs.

d.h. lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover:

On the grounds, fresh game.
On the new gamekeeper, fresh
Lady Chatterley.

herman melville, Moby Dick:

Vengeance! Black blood! Aye!
Doubloons to him that harpoons
the Greenpeace dinghy.

jane austen, Pride and Prejudice:
(this is my one of my favourites)

Single white lass seeks
landed gent for marriage, whist.
No parsons, thank you.

charles dickens, Bleak House:

Fog, gloom, men in wigs --
the Chancery Court blights all.
See where law school leads?

william golding, Lord of the Flies:

'Kill him! Spill his blood!'
Marooned lads hold savage rites.
Choirboys learn how to prey.

samuel beckett, Waiting for Godot:

Act I. 'It's hopeless.
My boots don't fit. Where's God?'
Act II. The same thing.

william shakespeare, Hamlet:

'His mother wed his
dead murdered father's brother!'
Next Jerry Springer.

nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:

Grim, grey New England --
all adulterers receive
free monogramming.

vladimir nabokov, Lolita:
(this is very clever)

Lecherous linguist --
he lays low and is laid low
after laying Lo.

michel foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison:

Carceral discourse
polyvalently deployed.
Hot air gently blows.

george orwell, 1984:

Love is a thoughtcrime.
The Thought Police make Winston
forget whatsername.

charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre:

O woe! His mad wife --
in the attic! Had they but
lived together first.

christopher marlowe, Doctor Faustus:

A scholar trades a
few fun years for endless Hell.
Maths was not his field.

St. Augustine, The Confessions

This is just to say
I screwed around. Forgive me.
I enjoyed it so.

oscar wilde, The importance of being Ernest:
(very good)

Earnestly posing
as Ernest, Jack learns he's named
Ernest in earnest.

j.d. salinger, The Catcher in the Rye:

I flunked out again.
Crumby prep schools. Bunch of dopes.
Boy, I'm not kidding.

f. scott fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby:
(not good but for here for comparison with the novel)

Beauty to weep for --
coral, azure, apple green.
His custom-made shirts.

nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra:

Kindness is weakness!
Abhor pity, worship strength!
Be an uber-jerk!

michel de montaigne, Essays

Genteel French musings --
life, death, odd smells, my moustache.
Today's topic: Thumbs.

george eliot, Middlemarch

Stifling social roles,
small-town gossip -- beware the
eyes of Middlemarch.

ernest hemingway, The Sun Also Rises:

'Why can't we?' she said.
'War wound,' I said. 'Oy,' Cohn said.
Back to Harry's Bar.

lit trip gathering?

well, i heard that some people would be keen on a gathering.

common sense dictates that the gathering has to be:

1. before the OCIP
2. after the PW OP
3. in a convenient location
4. not take too much time to organise

my suggestions (strictly provisional), and the group leaders of the trip, pls gather feedback on how MOST people want the gathering:

If the gathering starts in SCHOOL:

1. see Mark Thompson's DVD compilation of all the group photos + hilarious out-takes (e.g. the super parody pose photos by the guys) that are not included in the DVD

2. Makan after seeing the photos, at a convenient location near school

If the gathering starts in someone's home:

1. see Mark Thompson's DVD compilation of all the group photos + hilarious out-takes (e.g. the super parody pose photos by the guys) that are not included in the DVD + Makan while seeing photos.

yep, that's it. Quite simple. If the lit trip STUDENTS are not organising it, Ms Chia is NOT going to organise it.

But if you want to organise it, I'll help you to book the classroom, announce it on the blog--which you can do yourself...

:)
Ms Chia