Modern technology has profoundly changed our lives.
Voice conversation is practically passe' now, replaced by the text message.
Now imagine if texting had arrived a century or more ago. Mallory Ortberg does just that on the web, at the-toast.net.
She imagines F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald trading message, as well as fictional characters.
And now the romp through imagination is in book form, as Texts From Jane Eyre.
Would Scarlett O'Hara "sext" Ashley Wilkes? We'll ask.