Woe un2 Txtmsg Dvls

"Milton's Paradise Lost, one of the most sublime works of Western literature, [can be] reduced to a four-line text message (txtmsg)...

...yesterday with the blessing of the Lord Northcliffe professor emeritus of modern English literature at University College, London (fule)," reports London's Daily Telegraph:

It read:

Devl kikd outa hevn coz jelus of jesus&strts war.pd'off wiv god so corupts man(md by god) wiv apel.devl stays serpnt 4hole life&man ruind. Woe un2mnkind.

From the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal

Theology nerd alert: Not only does this represent an interesting approach to education, it suggests to the hidebound traditionalist ecclesiologist certain contrasts between sola msg and full 5-senses-blazing sacramentalism. A consideration not unrelated to mltns txt.

Update: Drawing our two points neatly together: jesus2go.

Via Titusonenine

Yep, calling Tom Wolfe and St. Gregory Palamas; the hook-up culture meets "the trysting place." Commitment-free concepts on the run, served up in Mystery Brand package. "Barbie Goes to Seminary. Accessories Available."

Comments

[Richard Lawrence Cohen]

Reminds me of that Woody Allen joke where he says he's taken a speedreading course and has read WAR AND PEACE in twenty minutes and understood the whole thing. "It was about Russia."

[Richard Lawrence Cohen]

PS: This post is, of course, another entry in your "Young Idiots" series.

[dilys]

No, holding off until the young text messenger is the deputy intern in charge of communications at a busy hospital...

But thanks for thinking of us!