and now a text message novel…
25Jan07
A 1000 text messages between the author and his friends as he resigns his job and goes traveling Europe and India. Thats essentially the plot and the contents of a new Finnish novel. The messages are to be listed in a chronological order in a 332-page book. Given that the messages are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations, wouldn’t it be cool if the novel be distributed only via text messages? It can be a kind of living the characters, at least the receiving and reading part. But it can also be really tiring to live through somebody’s life for a 1000 messages and hence the novel may gain little popularity. Somethings change little even though technology keeps changing. Narration may be one of them.



wow. the information hoarder/broker in me has always been bummed that my capacity for storing text messages is so small, despite having a 512 MB microSD card.
this reminds me of the word-at-a-time reading method that jon lesser did a bit of NLP work on last semester…