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@MarlonMillner @UniteThePoor 2/ What also distinguishes him as somewhat special, is the manner in which he consciously, simultaneously and masterfully groks the initiatory capacity of language itself as a transcendent mode - in the style, say, of Adorno or Wittgenstein or the Gospel of Thomas.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 29 Sept 2022

@holdengraber @rebeca6169 McLuhan's "mode of broken or syncopated manipulation to permit inclusive or simultaneous perception of a total or diversified field." N.O. Brown: "Truth, a broken body: fragments, or aphorisms; as opposed to systematic form or methods." The tweet, the thread, the Dionysian form.

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms – they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter – it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression. - Joyce Carol Oates
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I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms – they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter – it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression. - Joyce Carol Oates

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RDGStout 1/ Elsewhere, we have experientially-based avowals that with the re-emergence of the Gospel of Thomas, the messianic sunburst, long occluded within a form of quietistic mysticism on the one hand and religious proscription on the other, was unleashed as a modern democratic force.Quoted by@RDGStout 1/ Elsewhere, we have experientially-based avowals that with the re-emergence of the Gospel of Thomas, the messianic sunburst, long occluded within a form of quietistic mysticism on the one hand and religious proscription on the other, was unleashed as a modern democratic force.