Friday, July 27, 2012

It's Fiction!



Literary Definition

Anolexia: 1. The compulsion to cut words from anything one writes.  2. The belief that anything one writes is too fat.

Examples:

Gertrude Stein:
“A rose is a rose is a rose.”

Gertrude Stein with Anolexia:
“A rose is.”

Shakespeare:
“To be or not to be that is the question.”

Shakespeare with Anolexia:
“Exist?”

Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin  Franklin:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,”

Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin  Franklin with anolexia:
“Obviously, we’re all created equal.”

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