31. You can't fully preserve a twitter essay but you can't fully preserve a great concert or theatrical performance or stand up rountine
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32. It's liberating to just let out your ideas and let them go. Watch them fly away. Nothing gold can stay.
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33. That Adorno quote is from Philosophie der neuen Musik, which I've misplaced. But Jameson has summary in "Marxism & Form"
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34. Jameson: The footnote "is a small but autonomous form, with its own inner laws and conventions and its own determinate relationship.."
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36. "The very limits of the footnote...allow the release of intellectual energies"
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37. In the footnote "living thought...pursue its fitful existence in the small print at the bottom of a page."
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38. The "fitful existence" of "living thought" that has no other habitat is what the twitter essay allows.
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39. That's it for this little twitter essay. I'm sure we'll take up all these topics again in other forms.
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@BradyStrachan 2 I saw other people doing tweet storms -- i.e. a strong of tweets on a related topic. & saw David Frum numbering tweets
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