A Modest Video Game Proposal is an allusion to the essay written in what year?
A Modest Video Game Proposal A Modest Video Game Proposal is the title of an open letter sent by activist/former attorney Jack Thompson to members of the press and to Entertainment Software Association president Doug Lowenstein on October 10, 2005. He proposed that, if someone could "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006" that allows players to play the scenario he has written, in which the character kills video game developers, he will donate $10,000 to the charity of former Take-Two Interactive chairman Paul Eibeler's choosing. The title of the letter alludes to Jonathan Swift's 18th century satire essay "A Modest Proposal".
The Common Pursuit The Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called "The Common Pursuit". The title is an allusion to F. R. Leavis's 1952 collection of essays "Scrutiny: The Common Pursuit".