Plaidophile: This one goes out to all the literature students

December 10, 2003

This one goes out to all the literature students (writing)

by fluffy at 6:57 PM

Those of you who are struggling to find that unintended thematic content in a work of literature will probably appreciate this thing I wrote quite some time ago for Everything2, rescued from the bowels of archive.org:

Super Mario Brothers: A Literary Criticism

Comments

#1424 leviramsey (unregistered) 12/10/2003 11:20 pm +1 FP

Mentions the Nintendo cereal. I get blank looks when I mention that marketing tie-in.

NINTENDO: IT'S FOR BREAKFAST NOW!
NINTENDO: IT'S A CEREAL, WOW!

Kids cereal reached it's apex, circa 1990 (as did cartoons, coincidentally). I still remember Dinersaurs and Dunkin Donuts cereals...

#1425

12/10/2003 11:34 pm

I don't remember Dinersaurs, but Dunkin Donuts was one of the many cereals my mom would never, ever, EVER let me or my siblings have. I'm surprised she ever got us the Nintendo cereal. Once.

#1426 leviramsey (unregistered) 12/11/2003 02:39 am Now that I think of it

All three cereals named in my above post were from Ralston-Purina. I'm sort of ashamed that I remember that fact...

#1427 12/11/2003 10:10 am

I enjoyed reading that.

Honest question: are you seeking to poke fun at people who force their own ideas onto literature or at everyone who studies it?

#1428

12/11/2003 10:40 am

First one.

#1429 12/11/2003 10:42 am

Huzzah! We can still be friends. Very Happy