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 (two years ago) link
Joyce Carol Roaste
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:24 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
Lots of classics could have used an editor
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 16 April 2022 09:08 (two years 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 (two years 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 (two years ago) link
will her tweets be better now that there’s an edit function??
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 April 2022 14:27 (two years 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link