In college, my world literature professor introduced us to Shrink-lits, humorous little poems that sorta-kinda summarized important works like The Iliad, Hamlet, and Crime and Punishment. Now, Andy Naselli has summarized each of Screwtape’s letters in one sentence to the benefit of readers around the world. Now, if he could sum up each chapter of Anna Karenina, we would all be blessed.

Here are three from the list:

• Make him live in the future rather than the present.
• Encourage church-hopping.
• Encourage gluttony through delicacy rather than excess.

Darren Aronofsky is making a movie about the patriarch Noah, and some film people are talking about the script they have read, which may or may not reflect the final story. Peter Chattaway offers some thoughts and a bit of criticism of what Brian Godawa said about it. There’s no blood on the ice here, just a little back-and-forth.

The biggest issue plebeians like us will notice is the heavy environmentalism. In this story, original sin led to violence which led to the greatest of all evils: environmental waste. From what Chattaway can tell, the story may be thought-provoking, if we can hold our noses through the eco-propaganda. I wonder if the world will be a rainforest paradise after the flood washes through. (via Jeffrey Overstreet)

A “Speculative Cosmographer” gives us a few maps of imaginative lands.

What elements of your life have economic value? Your family photos? Your casual thoughts? The video you took of a stranger making a shameful fool of herself?

Our new social networks allow us to attempt to market everything in our lives for audience or follower consumption. Tim Challies applies an old analogy to it: when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

“Some experiences are too full to distill to 140 characters and too rich to capture in a photo,” he reflects. “Sharing such experiences through social media serves only to cheapen them. Do not allow yourself to ruin a beautiful moment by seeing it primarily as an opportunity to share it with strangers.”