The winner of the Weekly LitWit Challenge 7.6: The Literary Break-Up
Thank you for submitting your entries, apologies for the delayed announcement. Have been sleeping off The Worst Cold of the Year for the last 48 hours. We have learned a vital lesson: Never fly when you are congested. When the plane starts descending, the cabin pressure drop will make you feel like your head is going to explode. We were deaf for a half hour after landing…and then we got on another plane. It was excruciating.
Thanks to the ministrations of our cats we are feeling much better, though still amazed that a human body can contain so much viscous green snot.
In case you attended the panel on Humor at the Manila International Literary Festival, apologies for our absence. We emailed the organizers yesterday that we were not likely to recover our powers of coherent speech by today. And we had been looking forward to discussing irony at the M.I.L.F.
But that’s enough about green snot. We enjoyed reading your entries. One was annoying (Oh wow you know the plot), a couple were creepy (not atmospheric creepy, diagnostic creepy); our favorites were the letters from johnbristol6 and Momelia. Except that we couldn’t figure out which literary character johnbristol6’s break-up letter was addressed to, though their relationship seemed quite literary. (We thought he meant Nabokov’s Ada but we don’t think she spoke bekinese.) (Update: Thanks for the information: Ada is ZsaZsa Zaturnnah’s alter ego.) Momelia’s is meant for the Tin Man obviously, and we get a clear impression of the writer’s personality while the other letters only spoke of the addressee.
Speaking of the Tin Man, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s graphic novel Lost Girls retells the stories of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and Wendy from Peter Pan. With tons of sex. Not for kids.
The Winner of the Weekly LitWit Challenge 7.6 is Momelia. johnbristol6 gets a consolation prize: Ang Huling Dalagang Bukid at Ang Authobiography Na Mali: Isang Imbestigasyon by Jun Cruz Reyes (Since we’re hoping johnbristol6 will write a novel). Congratulations! You may pick up your books any day starting Saturday 19 November 2011 at the Customer Service counter of National Bookstore at Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati.
The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by our friends at National Bookstore. LitWit 7.7 is coming up.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 18th, 2011 at 20:27
Thanks Jessica! I was referring to Ada, the one who transforms into Zsazsa Zaturnnah. May I ask what I’m getting? :)
November 19th, 2011 at 07:57
johnbristol’s Ada is ZsaZsa Zaturnnah’s alter ego. There were references to ZsaZsa/Ada’s sidekick Didi, and also a reference to a movie adaptation in the MMFF.
November 19th, 2011 at 09:57
Sigurista?? Ang Huling Dalagang Bukid at Ang Authobiography Na Mali: Isang Imbestigasyon by Jun Cruz Reyes.
November 19th, 2011 at 11:29
Congrats Momelia! It was my favorite entry as well :D
November 19th, 2011 at 16:39
Aww, thank you Jessica! Jun Cruz Reyes was my MPs170 (Malikhaing Pagsulat) prof when I was in third year college. :D
November 20th, 2011 at 00:39
YEAHHHHH! Lavet! Thanks for the books! Good job sa ating lahat, pero ako ang may books, kaya sorry na lang. Wahaha, keme, pero this was fun!
Muahness from Pasig Cirehhh!
November 20th, 2011 at 04:38
Thank you ManilaBeans! Mabuhay ka! Yeahhh!