The latest nomination for the Booker Prize

[desperance]

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction may be the most prestigious literary award in the world (I do understand that there are rivals, that may loom larger in other lands, but hey...); certainly, in this country, it is the one most deeply sunk into the national consciousness. As witness:

Someone has submitted First Bus' timetable for their No 1 Service in Bristol. "I've been using this service since August last year, and I can personally attest to the timetable's suitability as a work of fiction, since it bears absolutely no relation to the actual times or frequencies of the buses' journeys. I conservatively estimate that since August I have wasted about 50 hours of my life that I won't get back, waiting for buses that never turned up. Please let me know what I need to do to get this work in front of the judges for their consideration."

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Dang, someone is stealing my jokes! I've already suggested putting our work schedule up for both the Booker and the Orange prize for fiction ... though I haven't actually submitted them :-)

Still, it's an excellent wheeze!

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

It may be life, but is it ART?

I tend towards the Huntingdonshire Dictionary of Cabmen, preferably declaimed by Michael Redgrave. Although that would have it up for a dramatic rather than a literary award.