An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

No doubt about it, this spam email (forwarded to me by a friend) has literary ambitions:

Subject: jackal in uk
From: noreply@antisigma.classics.utoronto.ca
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:52 +0200
To: v.wohl@utoronto.ca

bug,
safe and ez trip. ok room. poor sleep. very poor.
i’ll try to find a real terminal soon. this is send-only (museum). hope you and dude abide.
luff,
e

I’m pretty sure that this email could as well have been submitted to some literary review journal for the short short stories section.

Or, maybe, it is part of a combined online/real-world game where folks have to find puzzle pieces in the real world.

Who knows.