![]() "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins." and we're off. ![]() Novels went on as long they liked.Įxuberantly upholding that tradition at the end of the 20th century, Thomas Pynchon's 'Mason & Dixon' begins with a sentence not of 140 characters but 120 words, and continues in the same vein for nearly 800 pages. But 18th-century texts did not confine themselves to 140 characters or fewer. In his current incarnation as a celebrated virtuoso of Twitter (commanding over 14,000 followers at the time of writing), Dr Samuel Johnson has cannily matched the struck poses, the snorted expostulations and the triumphant aphorisms of his century's discourse to the frame of the tweet. ![]()
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