“Some awful thing, I sense, has come to pass:/Disorder in the Force, Luke, voices gripped/By terror”

[larryhammer]

Okay, so, like, there’s this classicist? And he retold the original Star Wars trilogy, yanno, as an epic poem? And it’s like totally been published?

AND I’M SO. THERE. FOR THIS.

Except here. Even if it’s very bad, I am so there. As put by chestnut_pod in a recent comment, this is far enough up my alley to be at City Hall. (via)

---L, so there.

Subject quote from The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem, Jack Mitchell.

Comments

[naraht]

Very cool! I assume you know about the Star-Wars-as-Norse-saga thing already? https://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/tattuinardoela-saga-if-star-wars-were-an-icelandic-saga/

[larryhammer]

Of course -- classic hilarity.

And the movies rewritten as Shakespeare plays.