Tag Archives: Elon Musk

Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2022

Elon Musk sparring with his Twitter critics is like Shakespeare’s Malvolio going after Feste.

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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio

By Robin Bates | Published: October 30, 2022

Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Hamlet, Henry VI Part 2, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Samuel Beckett, Sense and Sensibility, twitter, Waiting for Godot, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?

By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2022

Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”

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