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Short messages have become long texts for teens, whose hearts beat in symphony in a multitude of ring tones and go out electronically for their beloved ones. For some others, SMSes are SOSes. Everyday, the three-letter word is finding new adherents and uses, diminishing the use of telephone and consigning the colonial era message-transmitting contraptions to museums.
One more value has been added to this ever-expanding ubiquitous service. It has literary value. If poems and advertisements can pop out of cell phones, why not prose? So, now, we have novels in SMS lingo and format. The credit for innovating the first novel in the cell language goes to China where a mobile phone is an indispensable tool for over 270 million people and on an average a million are added every month.
The first chapter of Chinese author Qian Fuchang’s novel, ‘Out of The Fortress’ that appeared in SMS form a few months ago has become an instant hit with thousands of youngsters as the story revolves around love. Not to be left behind, a Taiwanese writer, Xuan Huang, is reported to have produced an SMS novel, Distance.
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