Twitterers can update their entire lives within 140 characters. Every space, every punctuation mark, every adjective, noun, and verb is optional. If it gets the message across, 140 characters is optimal. With so many people on Twitter and text messaging, literature as an art form is undergoing radical changes. Imagine What would it have been like in the good old days when Am Lit was a required college course. Let’s take a look!
War and Peace in 140 characters :Rus’n wnter,ballrm dncing, Napl’n Bpte rtrt Mscw, Anastasia, bleak, cold, white dog,borscht,frgid,tundra,french defeated, boiled cabbage…
Ok, that looks easy enough. Let’s try something harder!
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