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Nothing to celebrate

Nothing to celebrate | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
FALLING within days of one another this (Gregorian) year, the Han Chinese and Tibetan New Year’s celebrations have almost shared a single calendar. For both...
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How Twitter Changed Literature & Culture - "Please RT"

How Twitter Changed Literature & Culture - "Please RT" | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

So Twitter doesn’t only have the widely recognized usefulness of providing updates on news and revolution, and illuminating links, and many laughs and smirks. It has also brought about a surprising revival of the epigrammatic impulse in a literary culture that otherwise values the merely personal and the super-colloquial as badges of authenticity. “Write as short as you can/ In order/ Of what matters,” John Berryman counseled in a pre-tweet of 44 characters. Favorite that, followers.

 

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