Barlet Starlet's Life Less Ordinary

Barlet Starlet provides a strange combination of humour, cynicism and moxy, with a healthy dash of gosh-darn it mentality and romantic idealism. Stir. Pour.

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Spam Genius

Because of a completely antiquated system at POW, I only receive email in text format. I can select to read in HTML if needs be, but the default it text. So today I received some Viagra spam or somesuch and was about to delete it when I decided to view it as text. And this is what I saw:

"Hello, Take him away, said Hobart shortly, and turned to issue his ordersBishop's door. The last he heard of them was Mary Traill's childlikewas a little taken aback at finding himself confronted by two menPeter could not hear at all, for she lowered her voice; the Colonel'sof his gallant confidence, and that he would that day have put anPitt sat up and groaned again. But this time his anguish was mentalby the fierce glare of the Judge and the voice of the crier.I am, he announced, making a literal translation of his name,fort that can be reduced to rubble in an hour. Stab me! It'sitself in his trembling voice.and in silence.recent raid - will accompany you to keep you in countenance. If IThat is news, is it? growled Blood.of proper deference must be corrected. I am Lord Julian Wade,must have got aboard during the night, and seized the ship. Itof Curacao. At this time of the year the voyage may safely be "

I'm pretty sure this could win a Nobel. Better than that plebian Elfriede Jelinek with her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power.

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