Tuesday, July 19, 2011

IS BREVITY TRULY THE SOUL OF WIT - Or Twittered Tidbits of the Witless?

Is brevity truly the soul of wit — or twittered tidbits of the witless?

Exeunt preponderance and perspicacity. Enter brevity, abbreviation, and
bombast!

With 140 to play with in Twitterland, there is no time/space to dawdle
with depth and dimension.

As we stumble over truncated Tweet codes, we sense the tension of
half-thought thoughts. These dictums, once struck, can never be retrieved.

140 meager, incomplete characters have been sent off into the literary abyss. Our souls entailed. Will we ever again have time to ruminate, recollect, or reminisce?  

Must we wade through lists of gobbledies hoping for a glimpse of a 140-penned profundity?

Alas that it should come to this…. A world of tweeny, teeny, twitters…

Patricia Moloney Dugas

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