You might have already heard about the new(ish) "hidden object"
Great Gatsby video game, but did you know there is also an NES video game? You can play the game, allegedly found at a garage sale, online at
GreatGatsbyGame.Com. Most people suspect this is not an authentic NES game but something made up by some Nintendo fans with too much time on their hands (actually, the website's contact page admits it's a fake created by Charlie Hoey and Pete Smith). At any rate, it's an enjoyable time-waster, with appropriately ridiculous touches such as a gold hat as the equivalent of Mario's mushrooms and Dr. Eckleburg's giant laser-shooting spectacles.
I haven't played the game through (those giant laser-shooting eyes are tricky, and I'm no gamer) so I don't know how it turns out for Nick, or who else he has to fight later on (Dutch ghosts, apparently). Now let's wait for the brave and bored fan who'll make Ulysses: The Game.
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I tried to click through to read the first bit of your novel at www.skazoulay but it just kept spinning and would not go through. Therefore I considered the idea of writing a nonfiction book called: "Waiting for Skazoulay: a Portrait in Procrastination", since I have procrastinated at length by reading your amazing number of blog entries about procrastination, how real writers write and about how to read the writing of others and yet when I try to get through to see your novel I cannot. All of which seems symbolic in an iterative sort of way. Seriously I have enjoyed your blog entries, you are a good writer with a natural style and I wish you well. -Portia Iversen
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