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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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      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.

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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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.

      1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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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

      2 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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      5. But the craft of speeding up sentences, or slowing them down, can only get you so far. Readers are in control of the reading speed.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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      6. Some readers will race through a prose & poetry, some will linger over every syllable. The reader is in the driver's seat.

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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      7. With twitter-essay, what you get is a new way for the writer to have some say in the pace of reading. Twitter-essay unfolds in real time.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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      8. As with love-making, there is an art to anticipation, to deferring gratification, to foreplay.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Nov 2014
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      9. In a twitter essay, if you make a provocative point or a startling paradox, you can wait a few minutes till next tweet. Let it sink in.

      3 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    9. Tina‏ @tmweyland 19 Nov 2014
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      @HeerJeet Do most people read in real time? If so, how? (Life being life.) I'm either dipping in, or scrolling back when I have free time.

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    10. Tina‏ @tmweyland 19 Nov 2014
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      @HeerJeet Which means I invariably see your essays all of a piece, one tweet after another.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Nov 2014
      Replying to @tmweyland

      @t_weyland Very interesting point. I have to do more thinking about how people actually read these things.

      5:55 AM - 20 Nov 2014 from Regina, Saskatchewan
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