What would Great Books’ authors think of Twitterature?
In a spirit of serendipity, we asked Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin to consider how the great authors in their book would respond to it. Just what would Ezra Pound think of Twitterature? The two collaborated on the answers:
“Ezra Pound would flip through it and giggle a bit, but then scratch that big old beard and think, “It’s got potential, but how about cutting the beginning, and the end—and the middle, and rearranging it like this, and then we’re in business.”
Homer might think he could have written it with two hands behind his back and both his eyes poked out. However, he might have difficulty reading it to begin with, unless Rosy-fingered dawn translated Twitterature into Braille.”
Proust would probably fall out of bed laughing and then spill his morning infusion of tea all over his notebook.”
Laurence Sterne would probably let out a big, bellowing LOL, and then say that there wasn’t enough obscenity.”
Coleridge would read Twitterature before going to sleep, then waking in a fit, compose a great testament to the heavenly bluebird that descended on the ancient fields of England, pouring beauteous lyric borne of the God-inspired pen of man into the ears of all who witnessed it. However, the conclusion of said testament would be lost before he could record it, leaving the fate of Twitterature uncertain.”