REDUCTIVE LITERARY EQUATIONS

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Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass + In Search of Lost Time = Gormenghast

― Carl Solomon, Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Ooph, do I smell another ILB blockbuster thread?
How many people ended up actually staying on ILB after coming in through the 25 words thread anyways?

Err, sorry, that discussion should probably be held elsewhere.

So!

(The Hardy Boys)^1.618 = The Da Vinci Code

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Oystein, I'm going to guess this will be the last post.

Here goes:

Paradise Lost - (Harry Potter X The Wizard of Oz) = His Dark Materials

― Carl Solomon, Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

The Lotus Eaters + Blindness = Day Of The Triffids

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

moby dick - genius = jaws

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

although, that's a little unfair. there is something a little genius about Jaws.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Gravity's Rainbow - The Crying of Lot 49 = Infinite Jest

― Carl Solomon, Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

is it true that if you put graham greene and marshall mcluhan in a blender you get don delillo?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Stephen King - HP Lovecraft = Don Delillo

― Carl Solomon, Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

David Foster Wallace - Thomas Pynchon = Nicholson Baker

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Martin Amis - Kingsley Amis = John Kennedy Toole

(though part of me thinks this is far too generous)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Bukowski - Byron = Last Exit to Brooklyn

This is fun!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

The Country of Pointed Firs + The Catcher in the Rye = Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

― Carl Solomon, Monday, 14 March 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

Nabokov + Robert Elms = Martin Amis

― the bellefox, Monday, 14 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Joan Didion - David Thomson = Joan Bakewell

― the dreamfox, Monday, 14 March 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

(Dennis Cooper - Beverly Cleary) / neg(Catherine Millet) = Mitch Albom

― Mark, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

(Nikolai Gogol + O. Henry)^Dr. Phil McGraw - Mikhail Bulgakov = George Saunders

― Ionia, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Mary Shelley + William Faulkner = Nick Cave

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

(Lawrence Sterne X Scheherezade)/Vlad Nabokov = John Barth

― Carl Solomon, Monday, 14 March 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Italo Svevo + Tom Waits = Roberto Benigni

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I think the more precise equation is:

(Gravity's Rainbow - Catch 22) x Franny & Zooey = Infinite Jest

― Brenner, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

The Color Purple - The Bluest Eye = Red Dawn (corny, I know)

― Steve Carlisle, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Heh

(Blasted - Shopping and fucking) + Murakami = pornografia

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Joan Didion - Lloyd Cole = Joan Rivers

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Geoff Dyer - Roland Barthes + Early Doors + Isobel Campbell = Gwendoline Riley

― the dreamfox, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Wyndham Lewis + Joan Didion = Norman Mailer

― the mailfox, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Henry Adams - Thomas Carlyle = Bret Easton Ellis

― Carl Solomon, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Vladimir Nabokov - John Updike = Walker Percy

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

This is fun!

Margaret Atwood + Margaret Drabble = Iris Murdoch

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

How about: Jane Austen/Helen Gurley Brown = Helen Fielding

― Elise Robinson, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

(Foucault * Derrida * Lukacs * Barthes * Heidegger * Lacan * Bataille * Bourdieu) - (Nietzsche + Marx + Freud) = Australopithecus afarensis

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/afarcomp.htm

― Zarathustra, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan - Woody Guthrie = Robert Zimmerman Ph D, Mathematics

― sisyphus, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Samuel Beckett + (William Shakespeare/10) = Tom Stoppard

― Nick Douglas, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Samuel Beckett / Alfred Hitchcock = Harold Pinter

― the chimefox, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Peter Ackroyd + Hunter S. Thompson = Iain Sinclair

― the firefox, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

James Joyce - Flann O'Brien - Laurence Sterne - Jonathan Swift - ... = Frank McCourt

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

(Walker Percy - Harper Lee) + (Henry Miller - Samuel Beckett) = Tom Robbins

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

this is the best message board I've ever seen

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Jorge Luis Borges = Too much nothing

― Benjamin Egan, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Thomas Berhard + Nabakov=Svevo

― Jill Hummelstein, Monday, 26 September 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Enid Blyton + ((Susan Cooper - The Mabinogion) / 100) = J K Rowling

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Bachman = Stephen King

― Navek Rednam (Navek Rednam), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hemingway + ((Siegfried Sassoon + Robert Graves) X Wilfred Owen) = Pat Barker's Regeneration

― Carl Solomon, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Harry Potter + The Elegant Universe - Five Go To Sea = His Dark Materials

― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Pierre Menard + Stephen King = Dean Koontz

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

James Joyce's DOB + 125 years = 2nd February 2007

― the finefox (the pinefox), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Life of Pi - Salman Rushdie = Steve Irwin

― August (August), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

(AS Byatt - George Eliot) + Charles Dickens = Robertson Davies

― August (August), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

(Arundhati Roy + Jhumpa Lahiri + Kiran Desai) - Salman Rushdie = R.K. Narayan

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

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