Lit's Take on the Classics

[glynndah]

I was listening to Prairie Home Companion this morning and they played a small bit of the dialogue from Casablanca. "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans..." My immediate thought was that on Lit there'd be a threesome involved somehow.

Gone with the Wind is the story of a dom/sub relationship, maybe with some switching going on.

And of course, history's just chock-a-block with incest stuff.

Any other contributions?

 

[Aurora Black]

Emma involving swingers immediately comes to mind. (Forgive me, Jane.)

 

[Liar]

Jack and the Beanstalk?

 

[glynndah]

Jack and the Beanstalk?

vegetariality? (vegetable sex)

 

[rachlou]

I actually once saw a version of Little Red Riding Hood where Red was a sweet virgin and bad ol' Mr wolf was out to seduce her.. it was played as an allegory of adolescent angst, full of sexual imagry. No doubt it could be made pornographic for Lit purposes

 

[rgraham666]

Jack and the Beanstalk?

The first thing that pops into my twisted mind is gay tentacle porn.

 

[glynndah]

I actually once saw a version of Little Red Riding Hood where Red was a sweet virgin and bad ol' Mr wolf was out to seduce her.. it was played as an allegory of adolescent angst, full of sexual imagry. No doubt it could be made pornographic for Lit purposes

My brother-in-law took my sister and I to see a movie after we all finished Christmas shopping. He bought the tickets without any discussion with us so we didn't know what movie we were going to see. It turned out to be a pornographic version of Alice in Wonderland. This was totally out of character for him, or at least what I thought his character was. I just sat there in the dark amazed at the scene. I think it was my first X-(or perhaps a very hard R) rated movie. He sat betwen us, and by the way, my sister was almost 8 months pregnant at the time. Afterwards, we all just walked out of the theatre and nothing further was ever said about it. It was a very odd experience. I've never been able to think of him in exactly the same way since then.

 

[rachlou]

My brother-in-law took my sister and I to see a movie after we all finished Christmas shopping. He bought the tickets without any discussion with us so we didn't know what movie we were going to see. It turned out to be a pornographic version of Alice in Wonderland. This was totally out of character for him, or at least what I thought his character was. I just sat there in the dark amazed at the scene. I think it was my first X-(or perhaps a very hard R) rated movie. He sat betwen us, and by the way, my sister was almost 8 months pregnant at the time. Afterwards, we all just walked out of the theatre and nothing further was ever said about it. It was a very odd experience. I've never been able to think of him in exactly the same way since then.

I'm not surprised! *laughing* If it was my brother in law, I would be far from surprised - it would be right up his street!

 

[glynndah]

I'm not surprised! *laughing* If it was my brother in law, I would be far from surprised - it would be right up his street!

But he's not. He's generally very straight-laced, blushes very easily and leaves the room when my sister and I talk about anything even remotely sexual in nature. He's never even intimated anything like that either before or since. Makes you wonder, tho.

 

[Equinoxe]

I actually once saw a version of Little Red Riding Hood where Red was a sweet virgin and bad ol' Mr wolf was out to seduce her.. it was played as an allegory of adolescent angst, full of sexual imagry. No doubt it could be made pornographic for Lit purposes

Angela Carter wrote a few short stories like that in The Bloody Chamber; several of them were merged and adapted into a movie, The Company of Wolves.

 

[Oblimo]

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the earliest known story to be written down (and possibly the earliest known story, period), the first plot point entails Shamhat, the most potent Temple-Harlot of Ishtar, fucking the ever living shit out of wild-man Enkidu, non-stop, for a week -- No Literotica reimagining necessary.

 

[rachlou]

But he's not. He's generally very straight-laced, blushes very easily and leaves the room when my sister and I talk about anything even remotely sexual in nature. He's never even intimated anything like that either before or since. Makes you wonder, tho.

yep it is kind of weird if he's normally a very straight guy. Obviously hidden depths... scary!

 

[rachlou]

Angela Carter wrote a few short stories like that in The Bloody Chamber; several of them were merged and adapted into a movie, The Company of Wolves.

thats the film I meant - i couldn't recall the title. Thanks

 

[Equinoxe]

thats the film I meant - i couldn't recall the title. Thanks

You're welcome!

 

[oggbashan]

Robinson Crusoe makes his own toys and chases goats until Man Friday arrives...

Gulliver's Travels has been done - including some episodes by me.

Frankenstein and Dracula have been done.

So has Alice in Wonderland.

Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons has potential especially with a character called Titty.

Chaucer doesn't need additions. Nor do the Arabian Nights IF you get the unexpurgated version.

There is potential in several Dickens' novels e.g. Great Expectations and Hard Times.

E M Hull's The Sheik was OK for its time with Rudolf Valentino but if she had written it now?

Og

 

[Antfarmer77]

George Orwell's Animal Farm would probably be way out of the question I suppose

 

[glynndah]

George Orwell's Animal Farm would probably be way out of the question I suppose

Since the animals talk, as I recall, you may be able to post it under Sci-Fi-Fantasy, especially if there's no human to animal contact involved.

 

[oggbashan]

Homer's Iliad could be written from the POV of the wives left at home for 10 years. What did they do? With whom? What did they do to their husbands when they returned? (We know what happened to two).

Did Penelope, Odysseus' wife, really stay chaste? Or was she as artful a deceiver as he was? Was he telling the truth about his time away? Was she?

Og

 

[glynndah]

Homer's Iliad could be written from the POV of the wives left at home for 10 years. What did they do? With whom? What did they do to their husbands when they returned? (We know what happened to two).

Did Penelope, Odysseus' wife, really stay chaste? Or was she as artful a deceiver as he was? Was he telling the truth about his time away? Was she?

Og

Didn't Penelope spend her time all day weaving and then unwound her work all during the night? And what do those subtle advertisers say about vibrators...great for unwinding from the stresses of the day? More than a coincidence?

 

[Aurora Black]

Homer's Iliad could be written from the POV of the wives left at home for 10 years. What did they do? With whom? What did they do to their husbands when they returned? (We know what happened to two).

Did Penelope, Odysseus' wife, really stay chaste? Or was she as artful a deceiver as he was? Was he telling the truth about his time away? Was she?

Og

She pleasured herself with the loom.

 

[oggbashan]

She pleasured herself with the loom.

Some shuttles are such phallic shapes, aren't they?

And why was Odysseus' dog so pleased to see him? Was the dog worn out?

Og

 

[Aurora Black]

Some shuttles are such phallic shapes, aren't they?

And why was Odysseus' dog so pleased to see him? Was the dog worn out?

Og

 

[kendo1]

Classically fucked.

 

[rachlou]

Swiss Family Robinson - Incest/Taboo - lets face it, they would have needed SOMETHING to do stuck on that island for years!

 

[Aurora Black]

Taking On Shakespeare

Twelfth Night was already a crossdressing story...

What the hell happened to the Shakespeare chain we had going? It was so good.