If people were able to take these 140 characters and develop a poetic Western form… that would be a satisfying thing. But that’s not what I see when I read them.
- Hugh Laurie, quoted by Hello Magazine
May 28, 2009
I sometimes wonder if, thanks to Twitter and Plurk, all my thoughts turn into 140-character nuggets. Have I become this desperate or banal?
A hundred and forty characters. I can make two sentences with those. Or three. With enough room for phrases and proper punctuation marks.
Yet, Dr. House wants poetry. Oh, I’m not a poet. I do not know if I can write clean rhymes and lines with 140 characters. Bleh, I’ll try.
Is my wisdom limited to 140 characters? Maybe. I limit that wisdom, compared to “H3LlUr p0Wh” types who take cutting lines to the extreme.
