Comc literary tweets from Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio
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
Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
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Comic Twitter from a Master
More comic tweets by my favorite master of the medium (i.e., my English professor son)
Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?
Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”
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The Best Minds Destroyed by Social Media
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by social media,” write a couple of tweeting satirists, referencing Ginsberg’s “Howl.”
A Comic Tweeter in Love with Lit
My son Toby Wilson-Bates is a master of comic literary twitter. I share examples.
A President Who Hates Books
No president has been so adverse to reading as Donald Trump, whose contempt for books conjures up images of “Fahrenheit 451.”
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Twitter: Shorter Is Sweeter
Responses to Twitter increasing its character limit to 240 have often been quite humorous, including some limericks. And speaking of limericks and twitter…
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