One's-Self I Tweet
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This morning's comics page featured at least two strips focusing on Twitter as a literary genre. There was Doonesbury, in which Larry King demonstrates his command of the form:
And Pearls Before Swine, in which Rat edits Pig's copy of Leaves of Grass:
In fact, Whitman is easy to twittify:
One's-Self I sing—Of Physiology from top to toe; the Female equally with the male I sing; Of life immense—for freest action form'd.
To a historian: You who celebrate bygones! I, habitan of the Alleghanies, chanter of personality, I project the history of the future.
And so on.
Graeme said,
November 3, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
6/10. Bit too puntcuated for a tweet. '!' can stay.
mae said,
November 3, 2009 @ 10:12 pm
The real tweeter was Virginia Woolf. From the beginning of "The Waves" —
"I see a ring," said Bernard, "hanging above me. It quivers and hangs in a loop of light."
"I see a slab of pale yellow, said Susan, "spreading away until it meets a purple stripe."
"I hear a sound," said Rhoda, "cheep, chirp; cheep; chirp; going up and down." …
"The dining-room window is dark blue now," said Bernard, "and the air ripples above the chimneys."
"A swallow is perched on the lightning-conductor," said Susan. "And Biddy has smacked down the bucket on the kitchen flags."
and on and on
fiddler said,
November 3, 2009 @ 10:57 pm
Is there a haiku twitter group?
uberVU - social comments said,
November 4, 2009 @ 12:30 am
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Kellen Parker said,
November 4, 2009 @ 2:23 am
there's plenty of haiku, if not specifically a group (though i'm sure there's that as well). just search for #haiku.
Dierk said,
November 4, 2009 @ 3:51 am
He hasn't done it with his newest [Blood's a Rover] but I guess James Ellroy's next may be tweeted. His style lends itself quite naturally.
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér said,
November 4, 2009 @ 7:10 am
There is a Haiku group on Identi.ca – http://identi.ca/group/haiku.
Richard Howland-Bolton said,
November 4, 2009 @ 8:34 am
Haiku too easy, Hairimeraku's the way to go:
See that girl there
Climbing the stair.
She should know,
Crowd below…
Underwear.
(140 chars!)
Richard Howland-Bolton said,
November 4, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Of course Hairimeraku should have 17 on, rhyme AABBA and be redolent with seasonal and salacious aspects, as befits their combined ancestry.
Aaron Davies said,
November 4, 2009 @ 9:09 am
Accidental Haiku attempts to find all tweets that conform to haiku rules.
peter said,
November 4, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
The following letter appeared the The Guardian newspaper (London, UK) in April 2008.
"Like many people nowadays, I rarely have time to sit down and read a whole haiku (Letters, March 22; Letters, March 29). This prompted my "Short Poem About Brevity" –
Haiku, why ramble so?
Steven Handsaker
carla said,
November 5, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
This very popular excerpt from Whitman's Song of Myself is already pre-trimmed for tweetability at 96 characters:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)