celine as twitter troll would be a tonne of fun
but it would probably be taken down super fast once he gets to the racist remarks
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/FW_WOTD
I need to learn new words so #vGdTick
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
joyce finnegans wake: much the best way to encounter this book, which is basically a vast compendium of literary-literary-linguistic micro-gags and puns and NOT MUCH MORE
― mark s, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 6:37 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol i been following this one for a while and its utterly indistinguishable from a lot of the bots i follow, joyce was the original bot my phd thesis
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Sappho: https://twitter.com/sapphobot
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 September 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
came back to reiterate how great the 12 multi-milton feeds are, esp.as they sometimes get in weirdly appropriate synch with one another and the world
(milton often wrote good lines who knew ect ect)
― mark s, Thursday, 15 December 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
because I am a stone cold bitch https://t.co/kahsnvagMh— S. E. Hinton (@se4realhinton) January 24, 2018
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
@DailyYeats for alternating snippets of his poems viz
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.— W. B. Yeats (@DailyYeats) December 30, 2018
and
The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky;— W. B. Yeats (@DailyYeats) December 30, 2018
with such important commentary as:
The Weirdest Pizza Toppings Ever - https://t.co/cmIsceU7Z8 pic.twitter.com/tF5lY9Mgp3— W. B. Yeats (@DailyYeats) December 30, 2018
Films You Wish Disney Would Make - https://t.co/FG4eT8ppSE pic.twitter.com/pox40bqsP9— W. B. Yeats (@DailyYeats) December 30, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 31 December 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
lol:
There is a Garda speed check car going around Sligo.— W. B. Yeats (@DailyYeats) March 5, 2019
― mark s, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
pepys on pen (every time): FUCK THIS GUY
To the office, where all the morning sitting and did discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen’s old cheating dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born.— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) March 8, 2019
― mark s, Friday, 8 March 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
Tasty, and also I would rather receive tweets about pizza toppings and the speed check car than solemn vapid versification of those Dec. 30 offerings.
― dow, Saturday, 9 March 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
Oops they're all four Dec. 30!
― dow, Saturday, 9 March 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link
Well WB knew Dec.30 was end of the bolt/time for a change.
― dow, Saturday, 9 March 2019 02:48 (five years ago) link
Kinda like this one, even though it hasn't taken off:
https://twitter.com/GenjiMonoBot
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 June 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.— Jean Rhys (@MsJeanRhys) March 18, 2020
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Use your intelligence, can’t you?— Samuel Beckett (@samuelbbeckett) August 14, 2021
― mark s, Saturday, 14 August 2021 08:43 (two years ago) link
]]queen]]— Sappho Bot (@sapphobot) August 14, 2021
(my love miltonbot has shut up shop for good i think, and all sanity departed the site with it)
― mark s, Saturday, 14 August 2021 08:44 (two years ago) link
s/b lovely, but why not declare my passion for all to know
joyce finnegans wake: much the best way to encounter this book
I have always remembered this opinion and, having spent many hours reading certain passages of FW with fanatical closeness, I admit that it has a kernel of truth.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 14 August 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
yeats pizza topping tweet is still all time SITO
― mark s, Saturday, 29 January 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
Paying my respects.
rereading "classics" of American literature & have to concede, much prose by truly great writers (Poe, Melville, James) is actually just awkward, inept, hit-or-miss, something like stream-of-consciousness in an era before revising was relatively easy. oy!--sorry to have assigned.— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) April 12, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
Joyce Carol Roaste
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
Whether or not you like James' sentences the idea that he (or any of them, but especially him) wrote that way because he didn't have a word processor is hilarious.
― ledge, Saturday, 16 April 2022 06:00 (one year ago) link
maybe she was feeling hangry and fired off a grumpy tweet & reconsidered later after she had something to eat
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 April 2022 07:37 (one year ago) link
Lots of classics could have used an editor
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 16 April 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
i like the reply guy who boldly claims this is why *all* these authors read better in spanish
― mark s, Saturday, 16 April 2022 11:26 (one year ago) link
this is also what i think now (i don't read spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46XqDu_54iA
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 April 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
will her tweets be better now that there’s an edit function??
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 April 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.— Simone Weil (@simone_says_en) July 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 July 2022 08:11 (one year ago) link
Milk, rolls and chocolate.Franz Kafka, 1916.— The sunny side of Franz Kafka (@AmschelKavka) December 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 December 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
Any good literary mastodon feeds out there?
― emil.y, Monday, 19 December 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Kafka would definitely toot after that shopping list —rolling laughing crying emoji X 3
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
Re: mastodon. Only joined for now, and have followed some ppl that I found through twitter/lit twitter but not gone beyond that.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
Wouldn't know of this poetry if it wasn't for people sharing in grief (died a couple of days ago):
Gboyega and I met in Jan 2020, at a reading in a weird, tiny jazz club. Our fee was whatever got taken at the door, so afterwards we each took our £5 and hit the pub. It was always a joy to see him - he was so funny, and so brilliant. This poem is one of my favourites by anyone. pic.twitter.com/jsypaMeeLU— Susannah Dickey (@SusannahDickey) September 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 September 2023 12:43 (six months ago) link
A fund is going to be established for low-income black writers
Please donate & share ~ Gboyega Odubanjo – beloved son, brother, friend https://t.co/mzAgfw2hmQ— Amy Key (@msamykey) September 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:27 (six months ago) link