Spamified Kim.

[poliphilo]

The spammers who contact me two or three times a day offering unmissable investment opportunities just sent me a communication topped and tailed with big wodges of chopped-up Kipling. How literate of them! 

young Mohammedan woman, and begged a rank cigar of the brand that theythou eaten?' He fumbled in his bosom and drew forth a worn, woodenof nights; but he looked more carefully, and, hand on amulet, drew his3.25a.m. south-bound roared in. The sleepers sprang to life, and thefree myself from the Wheel of Things by a broad and open road.' Hebeautiful meals all hot from the cookshop at the head of the serai,

Even reduced to the consistency of dog food, Kim is a spicy read.- young Mohammedan women, cigars, trains, amulets, the Great Wheel of Things- Sock it to me, Rudyard, baby!

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

One of the things I got from Kim was Kipling's deep and abiding love of India.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He makes you see it, smell it, feel it. A wonderful writer.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Exactly - all the senses and then some engaged.

[methodius.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Tony. This was fun reading!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There was a whole lot more, but ...

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Here's the sort of junk I get--this one just came through:

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to wear a $10,000 watch
or a $9,000 necklace. Well now is you chance.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I should imagine a $10,000 watch feels exactly like a $10 watch.

I don't wear a watch. They irritate me and I always break the straps after a day or two.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

My nephew has some magnetism in his body that messes up watches.

I dislike the weight of them. And mostly I don't need to know the time anymore.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"mostly I don't need to know the time anymore"

Me neither. My watch sits in its box on the table beside my computer.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Scary: I could probably find the context for most of those snippets.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd like to "free myself from the Wheel of Things by a broad and open road!"

That's much better than the spam I'm getting, which alternately invites me to lose weight or increase the size of my [nonexistent since I'm a girl] you-know-what.