Subject: More Authors' Grocery Lists!
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Posted on: 2013-08-02 06:36:00 UTC
Joseph Heller
You may only use the shopping list if you're hungry. However, if you can read it, that only shows you're not too distracted by hunger to concentrate on reading, which means you aren't hungry at all and you may not use the shopping list.
Herman Melville
The shopping list is a long description of the history of grocery stores, and how people conducted shopping during the nineteenth century. The food only shows up at the very end.
Thomas Mann
The list is so long that you wind up strangling most of the early food items because you can't bear to hear them talk anymore about how hard life is outside the grocery store.
Stephen King
Each shopping list contains subtle nods to all the others, until eventually, the readership understands that all the lists are really taking place during a single, massive shopping trip. The Man in Black flees across the bakery section, and the Gunslinger follows.
J. Robert King
Leaves so many unfinished shopping instructions on the first list that Wizards of the Coast asks him to write an extra shopping list that explains all the inconsistencies and fills in the missing information.
Anthony Burgess
Instead of putting groceries in your cart, you smash them on the ground or throw them at other shoppers. The speaker system only plays classical.
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
For some reason, you're shopping on an airplane. Most food items have been crossed off and replaced with phone numbers. The children all go missing, but no one seems to notice or care. You start to shop from the Antichrist's shopping list instead because it has better food.