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Romeo takes to tweeting
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Shakespeare might have been furious. Flaubert outraged. Austen inwardly irritated. But the inevitable has happened: their prose has been re-imagined through Twitter and will be published in
a book distilling more than 60 classics. Called Twitterature, the book is the brainchild of two 19-year-olds at the University of Chicago. They claim to start a cultural revolution by
launching works of literature on Twitter, the website where users are allowed only 140 characters. So Romeo tweets his dying lament: “O, I am fortune’s fool! Maybe just a tool. And so I die.
BTW that other woman I was into before Juliet would’ve been a safer bet.” The book will be on the shelves in early November.