CONCERNING THE CLEAR POTENTIALITY OF LITERARY REVISIONISM:
A Streetcar Named Desire:
Stanley wept as he suddenly came to realize: that he was stranded and alone upon the fridgid mountain-top; that Stella was dead, buried alive beneath a shimmering mound of countless glistening rubies; and that Yorick, their affectionate talking donkey, was smoking the last of his imported Dominican cigars, while saying nothing and looking grimly onward, into the uncertain distance.
Thus Spake Zarathustra:
Inspector Brothwell and the local coroner paused briefly above the bathrobed corpse of the disheveled homeless man who lay, frozen and unblinking, upon the cold pavement there before them; each stooping closely beside the body, to read the words "God Almighty" from its neatly laminated name-tag.
Stanley wept as he suddenly came to realize: that he was stranded and alone upon the fridgid mountain-top; that Stella was dead, buried alive beneath a shimmering mound of countless glistening rubies; and that Yorick, their affectionate talking donkey, was smoking the last of his imported Dominican cigars, while saying nothing and looking grimly onward, into the uncertain distance.
Thus Spake Zarathustra:
Inspector Brothwell and the local coroner paused briefly above the bathrobed corpse of the disheveled homeless man who lay, frozen and unblinking, upon the cold pavement there before them; each stooping closely beside the body, to read the words "God Almighty" from its neatly laminated name-tag.
posted by Valhenstrogg | Monday, September 22, 2003
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Examples produced through an uncanny combination of: a personally defunct application of literary revisionism; my own haphazard experimentation within the medium of medias res; and a vague attraction to the curious elements of intrigue and challenge contained within the fifty-word short story.
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