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Emily Dickinson At Last Call, and Other Delightful Drunk Texts

Posted byRachel

on June 19, 2012

Rachel's Team Pick:

Everyone likes to exclaim over the tales of the canon's hard-drinking authors, because it's true that some of the best literature we enjoy today was brought to us thanks to some pretty serious bar tabs. But many of literature's greats passed on before they ever got to experience the best/worst/most revelatory part of heavy drinking: drunk texting! What would the best writers in history write if they were drunk and also using a keypad, whether T9 or Swype? Luckily, thanks to Jessie Gaynor, a poet at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, you can find out. (Also, this comes to us via the Paris Review. Which means that the Paris Review now publishes fictional drunk texts. Bless their hearts.)

Fantastic, right? Mostly it serves to arouse curiosity. What would Borges be? Faulkner? Virginia Woolf? Ten points to Gryffindor for the first person who can do a passable Judith Butler!

6 responses to “Emily Dickinson At Last Call, and Other Delightful Drunk Texts”

AH Menhenott
June 19, 2012 at 10:07 am Permalink Log in to reply.

I may be drunk. Indeed, confused by many things… even myself. Indeed, drunk.

Butler.

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wallow (member)
June 19, 2012 at 10:46 am Permalink Log in to reply.Report user

“I’ve emptied bottles three.”

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1. Hannah (member)
  June 19, 2012 at 8:17 pm Permalink Log in to reply.Report user
  
  I love him. “Last time it was a melancholy hillock.” Wordsworth and his sister used to lie in ditches and imagine they were dead. To keep this tradition alive, on his death day my friends and I lay in graveyards and imagine we are dead.
  
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Lucy (member)
June 19, 2012 at 11:55 am Permalink Log in to reply.Report user

This is so great. I think the one by Sappho is particularly fantastic

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Hannah Noelle
June 19, 2012 at 12:46 pm Permalink Log in to reply.

I must confess. I am a drunk text fool. However, far worse things have come to pass. :p

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kd15 (member)
June 19, 2012 at 4:00 pm Permalink Log in to reply.Report user

Fantastic, I love the Emily Dickinson one

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