Bloodletting, usually, depending on who you are.ĬM: That actually gets to something I wanted to know about. And then his friend got drunk, and hid them in the ground to confuse his friend and a plant grew and they were amazed.ĮR: It’s just very cold outside in the winter, as you know. And he valued-he thought they were religious relics.
That was not a drunken party thing.ĮR: No, some protohuman lived in a cave and he had some seeds and he really didn’t understand them. Possibly agriculture, you know.ĪA: That was definitely deliberate. It was still cold.ĮR: Beautiful, beautiful Australian women.ĪA: Abounding mountains of sirens flowing toward us.ĬM: That was the motivation? I ask because it seems to be like a joke that you came up with at a party.ĪA: There was a lot of historically great things that happened from party jokes.ĮR: Look at these fucking taxes, man. The Chicago Maroon sat down with Aciman and Emmett to talk about the publishing process, the reception of their book among Australian women, and the benefits of poking fun at the canon.Ĭhicago Maroon: When did the idea for “Twitterature” happen and what made you decide to pursue it?Īlexander Aciman: Spring quarter, I think.Įmmett Rensin: Maybe winter. Recently published by Penguin, the book reimagines great and popular works of literature into a handful of twitter posts each. While many U of C students may have wished for the condensation of classic texts as they suffered through Hum and Sosc, second-years Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin have found a way to make this dream a reality with their new book “Twitterature”.
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