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Revenge: Man Texts 19 Full Shakespeare Plays To The
Fraudster Who Stole His PS3
To text or not to text? It wasn't
even a question.
When 24-year-old Edd Joseph
dropped £80 for a PS3 on Gumtree, he never expected
the seller would take his money and run.
As soon as Joseph realized he wasn't
going to be receiving the PS3 he rightfully paid for, he did what any human in
their right mind would do: He texted "Macbeth" in its entirety to the
seller. (via Betabeat.)
“It just occurred to me you can copy
and paste things from the internet and into a text message. It got me thinking,
‘what can I sent [sic] to him’ which turned to ‘what is a really long
book’, which ended with me sending him Macbeth," Joseph told The Telegraph.
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"Macbeth" soon led to
"Hamlet," "Othello" and 19 other plays sent entirely
through text message, about 17,424 texts.
“I’m going to keep doing it. If
nothing else I’m sharing a little bit of culture with someone who probably
doesn’t have much experience of it,” he told The Telegraph. ”I’m not a
literary student, and I’m not an avid fan of Shakespeare but I’ve got a new appreciation you
could say – especially for the long ones.”
Does the punishment fit the crime?
As Shakespeare would have texted, "fair is foul and foul is fair
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