Man loves Polish boy, betrays Devil, dies lonesome, joyful death.
rewritten by Josh Heerter.
Hugo: Les Misérables
Former convict finds God, plays God, cop jumps in river.
rewritten by Rachel Sutcliffe
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Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Wind blows technology sideways– so tall, skinny continents go hungry.
rewritten by Caroline Fenton.
Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
boy kicked out of school and acts like a teenager.
rewritten by stephen frost
Moore – The Watchmen
Rorschach investigates Comedian’s death. Turns out Veidt did it. Hrmm.
rewritten by Rob Daviau
Krakauer: Into the Wild
Reads Thoreau but not Heidegger, resigns life, unprovided, in Ak.
rewritten by Will Esposito.
Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Man creates sons, sons destroy father, the rest eat pancakes.
rewritten by Chris LaPorte.
Sophocles: Antigone
sister disobediently sprinkles earth on deceased brother, shrieks, miserably vivisepultured.
rewritten by Melissa Cannata
Dante: The Inferno
Dante and Virgil go to Hell and climb out happy.
rewritten by Doug Anderson.
Kubrick/Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Evolution culminates in Heuristic/Algorithmic sabotage, reborn as star children.
rewritten by Ben Gagnon.