KALI DHARMA X SHAKTI DHARMA

by PostModernity's Red-Headed Step-Child

"Um, yeh, like, I'd like to exchange this paradigm? It's tew scratch-ehy."

13.7.06

Pleased Literature Geek

Two issues of Literary Imagination arrived today. My subscription for ALCS, the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the nifty folk who bring you The Valve. Well, BONUS! In the packet was, oh yay!, a packet of cards, to mail, to friends, with notes in them. But they are literary Mad Libs!!!!!!! Sooo much more like these cats than MLA, all buttoned down over there. On the envelope, one enters their words, and the card face is the Mad Lib! Here's one:

Noun ______________________
Noun ______________________
Noun ______________________
Noun ______________________
Past Participle __________________

Do play. Then click &c. to see below the fold.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of ______________ (noun), it was the age of ________________ (noun), its the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, its the spring of ______________ (noun), it was teh winter of ______________ (noun), we had everything before us, we have nothing before us, we were all _______________ (past participle) direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, natch. There, now wasn't that fun, and universally true, as well?

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