Forrest Wickman, en Slate, ha contvertido las primeras lineas de novelas clásicas en emoticones., y éste es el test... ¿Cuantas puedes averiguar?
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1.) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. 2.) “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. 3.) “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. 4.) “A screaming comes across the sky.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. 5.) “It was a pleasure to burn.” - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. 6.) “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” - Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. 7.) “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. 8.) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. 9.) “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. 10.) “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” - Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude. 11.) “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” - Samuel Beckett, Murphy. 12.) “Call me Ishmael.” - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
1.) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. 2.) “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. 3.) “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. 4.) “A screaming comes across the sky.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. 5.) “It was a pleasure to burn.” - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. 6.) “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” - Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. 7.) “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. 8.) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. 9.) “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. 10.) “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” - Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude. 11.) “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” - Samuel Beckett, Murphy. 12.) “Call me Ishmael.” - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
1. “Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos…” – Charles Dickens, Historia de dos Ciudades
2. “Al despertar Gregorio Samsa una mañana, tras un sueño intranquilo, se encontró sobre su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto.” – Franz Kafka, La metamorfosis
3. “Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
4. “Un grito viene a través del cielo.” – Thomas Pynchon, El arco iris de gravedad
5. “Era un placer quemar.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
6. “La señora Dalloway decidió que ella misma compraría las flores.“- Virginia Woolf, La señora Dalloway
7. “Todas las familias dichosas se parecen, pero las infelices lo son cada una a su manera.“- León Tolstói, Anna Karenina
8. “Es una verdad reconocida universalmente que un hombre soltero, en posesión de una buena fortuna, debe estar en busca de una esposa.” – Jane Austen, Orgullo y prejuicio
9. “Era un viejo que pescaba solo en un bote en el Gulf Stream y hacía ochenta y cuatro días que no cogía un pez.” – Ernest Hemingway, El viejo y el mar
10. “Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre le llevó a conocer el hielo” – Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad
11. “El sol brillaba, no teniendo otra alternativa, sobre lo nada nuevo” – Samuel Beckett, Murphy
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