Title An Unwritten Collaboration: The Game.

11/24/02 08:33 pm

This is a game which always has amused me, and it just seemed time to play again.
Here's how it's played: I will go first. the person who goes first will pick two authors, and the next person titles a hypothetical collaboration between these two authors.
Examples from prior games:
Kerouac + Poe = Suffering is Hip
Lovecraft + Miller = The Tropic of Azathoth
Plath + Powter = STOP THE BELL JAR!
Do read ALL the entries before you take a turn at the game, gentle reader: the bottommost entry should contain the most recent pair of authors.
To kick off, then:
I select Herman Melville and Chuck Palaniuk (While everyone knows Melville, Palaniuk wrote Fight Club, among others).
Now you, come up with a title for the collaboration, and then pick a pair of authors for the next player to choose.

srallen
11/24/02 08:46 pm (UTC)

CHOKING THE WHALE

Charles Bukowski and Emily Dickinson
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  11/24/02 10:07 pm (UTC)
  
  Because I could not stop for Death-- that Whore stole my Poems!
  
  Mary Shelley and George Orwell
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    11/24/02 10:28 pm (UTC)
    
    The Idiots guide to God Complex for the Classes
    
    Neal Stephenson - HP Lovecraft
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chiabrit
11/25/02 10:01 am (UTC)

If your interested in turning this into a standing game let me know I have plenty of spare LJ codes if you want one to create a community. I think a journal like raincaptions could work well with this.
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- colubra
  11/25/02 10:14 am (UTC)
  
  Hmn. I'd have to track down the original inventor of the game and A) get his OK B) get the name he gave it. seems a highly logical thing to do with it, though.
  - chiabrit
    11/25/02 12:40 pm (UTC)
    
    I put up a list of codes I have in a private entry for you, if your able to get permission :)
    
    Oh btw hope you dont mind I directed some friends to the game?
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colubra
11/25/02 10:25 am (UTC)

Oh: -- since carneggy and parisgreen made a bit of a bollix of things, here's the currently standing pair of authors (courtesy of parisgreen):

Gustave Flaubert and John Updike
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- Forgive Me.
  theomachio
  11/25/02 10:27 am (UTC)
  
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  Madam Bovary F***'s a Rabbit.
  
  Dean Koontz and Sun Tzu.
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    11/25/02 10:30 am (UTC)
    
    The Art of Canine Scrabble
    
    Scott Adams and Clive Barker
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parisgreen
11/25/02 12:56 pm (UTC)

I hope I don't bollix up the game again, but as chiabrit suggests, this would make a good standing game in the model of raincaption. Instead of doing it as a roundrobin, each day could feature a pair of authors, and many people could supply titles. I've certainly thought of multiple possibilities for some of the ones here. People could also email you with suggested pairs, or, if you want to make it a community, people could post pairs and others could respond. If you've got the time and inclination, I think the first way works better -- part of the success of raincaption stems from the iron-fisted control of welcomerain.
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  colubra
  11/25/02 08:26 pm (UTC)
  
  I do like this idea, and will probably set up an raincaption-like journal for it. This will happen after I get the original name of the game from its father, set up a new LJ for the game, and lastly set up a new email address for suggestions.
  
  Back to the game then: parisgreen's pair was:
  
  Emile Zola and Margaret Atwood
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    srallen
    11/26/02 09:06 am (UTC)
    
    The Handmaiden's Paradise
    
    Isaac Asimov and James Fenimore Cooper
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colubra
11/26/02 12:23 pm (UTC)

From Dirtymonkey:

Anne Rice and Jack Chick.

first off, OW. AHAHAHAHA.

That said:
Cry to Heaven, Jesus Hears You!

Chodlero de Laclos (les Liasons Dangereux) & Bret Easton Ellis
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  11/26/02 09:44 pm (UTC)
  
  Angelina and Jamie Jolie an Autobiography.
  
  Douglas Coupland and Micheal Moorcock
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