Going South

[Bill]

One last quiz to tide you over: can you name these literary works even though every word in their titles has been anagrammed? (Well, not short ones like articles and prepositions.)

These are pretty funny, actually.

I'll do the first one:

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Rented is the Thing = Tender is the Night

This reminded me of the most recent Doghouse, which I also found really funny.

I guess I'm easily amused today.

[SMWinnie]

Anagrams? What anagrams?

William Shakespeare's Thelma - the classic story of a woman driven by revenge to madness and death.



My Photoshop skills being weak, someone else will need to do F. Scott Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical novel of love, loss and madness - Rented is the Thing.
After a test pilot is transformed into a superhero by a cosmic storm but is unable to get a home mortgage, his status-conscious fiancée slowly descends into schizophrenia when she has to share an apartment with living pile of rock. With Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm and Jennifer Jones as Nicole.

/came for the shops
//left hungry

[Tatiana]

I've got them all but 6 and 9. Those two have me stumped.

Edit: Finally got 9 with the help of google.

[SMWinnie]

I had to look up number 4. Apparently the formerly common title for English translations of Proust's masterpiece on Moe Howard (Re Shemp's Finger Combatant) is discouraged now in favor of a literal translation.

(That would not be a word-by-word anagram...)

[ejs]

I love that #8 sounds like it could actually be a character name from the book.

[eoyount]

Since no one has posted a list of answers yet, here goes nothing:

1. Rented Is the Thing - Tender is the Night
2. A Scatterer Amend Eiders - A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Thelma - Hamlet
4. In Arches of Slot Item - In Search of Lost Time
5. The Erects Danger - The Secret Garden
6. Negation - Antigone
7. Resist Racier - Sister Carrie
8. A Mage of Hornets - A Game of Thrones
9. Tasing in the Heart - Giants in the Earth - never heard of this one
10. Seat of Need - East of Eden

[Tatiana]

Arrrgh! I unscrambled and rescrambled those letters for 6. for pages, and never got anywhere close! Good job. =)

[SMWinnie]

I love that #8 sounds like it could actually be a character name from the book.

(Kinda runs against one of the main themes, actually.)

I must admit, I am looking forward to A Kicking of Hornets (the next "book" in HBO's adaptation of Song of Dire Fiancé). Can't wait for Roger Traminger to finish writing The Fiend's Own Writ.



Am I the only one who thinks Barry Thaejeonoff (the dire fiancé of book 1) is less spoiled brat and more Machiavellian realist?