2007-09-07
How to tell the difference between Eugene Oregon and Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
The two are easily confusable, even though one of them uses a complex rhythmic metric scheme and the other is an elaborate work of fiction.
Novel: Eugene Onegin | City: Eugene Oregon |
By Alexander Pushkin | By McKenzie River |
Filled with an amazing amount of hipness, despite the passage of time. | Filled with an amazing amount of hippies despite the passage of time. |
Hybrid prose poem | Hybrid cars |
Major theme: As art imitates life, so life can imitate art. | Major theme: Life can, you know, like totally imitate art and stuff. |
Radical novel uses a metric system. | Radical. Novel. Uses the Metric System. |
Rambling structure often leaves students at college campuses in a daze. | Dazed students often wander away from college campuses. |
Main character eats dinner, jogs memory with old letters. | Characters jog pretty much everywhere, eat lettuce. |
Pre-metafiction classic | |
Plot: No stone left unturned. | Pot: No left turn unstoned. |
Woman moves to city. Affects layers of pretension, acts like jerk to people who previously were her friends. | Yeah. Pretty much. |
People in area tried out communism; decided it wasn’t that great. | People in area think communism would probably work if, like, just the right guys were in charge for a change, you know? |
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