Death of Derek Jeter

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The Death of Derek Jeter was an epic Primer thread inspired by a November 2006 short story that Michael Martone wrote for Esquire. Primates wrote about Derek Jeter in the style of other literary greats.

[edit] Influences

A list of posts and their inspirations, originally compiled by Kirby Kyle, vortex of dissipation, and Backlasher:

25. Kafka, Metamorphosis

36. Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

43. Lardner, You Know Me Al (via the BTF Jack Keefe)

45. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

47. Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

51. Joyce, Finnegan's Wake

54. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

55. Jackson, "The Lottery"

59. Frost, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"

60. Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

63. cummings, "Buffalo Bill"

64/68. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (though the singing in the second entry references the film adaptation exclusively)

65. Carroll, "Jabberwocky"

67/72. Poe, "The Raven"

69. Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

70. Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

71. Wesley Willis, All Works (with a reference to Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions)

73. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

74. Heller, Catch-22

75. Kipling, The White Man's Burden

76. Nabokov, Lolita

77. Seuss, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

78. Austen, Sense and Sensibility

81. Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

83. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

84. Corso "The Mad Yak"

86. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

87. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover

88. Hemingway, "For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn"

89. Eliot, "The Waste Land"

91. Beowulf

92. Melville, Moby-Dick

100. Whitman, "O Captain! My Captain"

103/108. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

109. Shakespeare, Richard II

110. Monty Python, "The Lumberjack Song"

111. Joyce, Ulysses

114. Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

116. Barth, Giles Goat-Boy

118. Siegel/Shuster, Superman (from Action Comics No. 1)

120. Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

121. Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

123. Heller, Catch-22

124. Gilbert & Sullivan, "When I Was a Lad"

125. Longfellow, "The Village Blacksmith"

126. Shelley, "Ozymandias"

128. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

131. Shakespeare, MacBeth

132. Camus, The Stranger

133. Beckett, Waiting for Godot

134. Sartre, No Exit

141. Orwell, 1984

144. O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

145. Proust, Swann's Way

146. Bernstein, "Come Out Tonight"

151. The Lord thy God, The Bible, Genesis

152. Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"

156. Stoppard, "Travesties"

157. Borges, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

158. Sterne, "The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman"

159. Barrie, Peter Pan

160. Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

161. Dickinson, "I Never Lost as Much but Twice"

162. Voltaire, Candide

163. McInery, Bright Lights Big City

164/165. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Kamarazov

166. Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

167. Marx/Engles, "The Communist Manifesto"

171. Tennyson, "Ulysses"

172. Shelly, "Ozymandias"

173. Coulton, "Kennesaw Mountain Landis"

174. King, The Shining

175/178. Keats, "Ode to a Grecian Urn"

177. Stone, Unites States v. Corlene Products

180. O'Hara, The Day Lady Died

181. Longfellow, "Song of Hiawatha"

182. Townes, Derek Jeter (Repoz can't play anymore. He's too obscure).

183. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

184/185. Nietsche, Beyond Good and Evil

186. Thayer, "Casey at the Bat"

187. Hemingway, "In Another Country"

188. Eliot, "Love Ballad of J. Alfred Prufrock"

189. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

190. Leyner, Et Tu, Babe

193. Morton/Barry/Greenwhich, "Leader of the Pack"

194. Adams, "Baseball's Sad Lexicon"

195. Shakespeare, "Macbeth"

196. Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose"

199. Baker, The Fermata

200. Hartley, The Go-Between

201. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

202. Generic hard-boiled detective fiction

203. Traditional Limerick

204. Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"

205. David Foster Wallace

206. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

208. Wharton, The Age of Innocence

209. Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

212. Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

216. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

217. Roth, "The Conversion of the Jews"

218. Biblical book of Genesis.

219. Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron

220. The Ramones, "I'm Against It"

221. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

224. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

225. Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

226. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

227. Homer, The Iliad

229. Goldman, The Princess Bride

230. Richard Brautigan, "The Scarlatti Tilt"

231. Joyce Kilmer, Trees

234. Gilgamesh

236. Hornby, High Fidelity

240. ?

241. Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"

243. Pearl Jam, "Animal"

244. Kirkegaard, Fear and Trembling

245. Jerry Lewis, Dean & Me

246. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

249. Stafford, Ask Me

250. Orwell, Animal Farm

251. DeLillo, White Noise

252-3.

254. Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

255. Updike, Rabbit is Rich

256. ?

258. Pizzo, Rudy

259. Think, "Things Get a Little Easier (Once You Understand)

260. Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

261. ?

262-4. William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"

265. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

266. Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

267. Coltrane, "A Love Supreme"

268. Larry David, Seinfeld: The Contest

269. Palahniuk & Uhls, Fight Club

270. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

271. Auden, "Funeral Blues"

272. cummings, "Buffalo Bill"

273-4. Ginsberg, "Howl"

275. Psalm 23

276.

279. Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"

280. Welty, "No Place For You, My Love"

283. John Mellencamp, "Our Country"

[edit] Also see

• Literature
• The Death of Derek Jeter - the story. "World Series champion, Yankees captain, ladies man, millionaire — the memory of Derek Jeter. A fully realized act of the imagination." (November 2006)