1. If there is a poetics to the twitter essay -- a big if -- it's a poetics of shared time, of unfolding words at a deliberate pace.
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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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4. And if a writer wants the reader to take more time, as she sometimes does, she can make sentence dawdle, malinger, in the Jamesian manner
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