2. As McLuhan and Ong have taught us, printed words are orality turned into space: words on a page sit next to each other in alignment.
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3. Of course careful poets and prose writers can control time to some degree. Write speedy sentences. Quick. To the point.
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@big_dicta 13 tweets is about 1/4 of a short newspaper column.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ekwetzel Yeah, I feel the reading later is a different thing. Difference between going to a concert & hearing tape of a concert.
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@ekwetzel Actually fatherhood is why I got started doing twitter-essays. Good way to write while doing childcare.
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@ekwetzel Right -- ideally I prefer people to read in realtime and not binge read. But of course not always possible.
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