@pauljpastor And a supernatural strength of the tweet form, I reckon. Nietzsche: "My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.” Tweets as "forms of eternity", as he might call them.
@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.
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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