Sunday, March 07, 2010
Robert Graves, Wordsworth, Poetry... and Twitter?
Craig Ferguson interviews Stephen Fry - in an interesting departure, Ferguson goes back to the way Tom Snyder used to do his show, with no audience. Amazing interview. And Fry is just weirdly fascinating to listen to. The link is to part 2 of the interview, but I'd recommend the whole thing, including the intro (which is separate from part 1).
In this section, Craig asks Fry about Twitter, and Fry talks about how he and Douglas Adams (who wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc.) were among the first guys in England to have Macintosh computers, and since then, he's sort of had a passion for trying out new technology. He then goes on to talk about the history of telegrams and abbreviation in epistolary culture, and then brings up the way that Robert Graves thought Wordsworth's "Solitary Reaper" was a bad poem because it was repetitive. All that to say that Twitter is pretty cool, intriguing, useful, and not the danger to our literacy that we might fear.
Amazing.
so sez Matt Duncan at 8:33 PM
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