Dear Director,
with a tweet you can say whatever you want.
In March 2006 Jack Dorsey invented Twitter: the texts were originally 140 characters, then became 280 in 2017.
Now Twitter is owned by Elon Musk, it has changed its name and is now “X”: the unknown in an equation?
Musk is highly criticized by the establishment: he would be a sort of evil genius, Leonardesque and Machiavellian, but an unknown factor for the future of the world.
After all, Musk supported Donald Trump, influenced his great and exceptional victory, and is a much listened to advisor.
Can we trust Elon Musk?
But let's go back to the freedom of the tweet: a chirp, a chirp, frequent and fast, a futuristic tweet so to speak.
I love the brevity of the tweet, an arrow that reaches the target (an ever-moving target), often an aphorism (derived from the Greek: determine, define).
Curiously, for many centuries aphorisms indicated the study and practice of medicine: the Aphorisms of Hippocrates are famous.
The aphorism-tweet, when it contains a thought or a message in a few words good wordis the perfection of expression, the memorable linguistic completeness.
It can be, for example, the incipit of a book: “I was twenty years old. I will not allow anyone to say that this is the best age of life” (Paul Nizan, “Aden Arabie”).
A bolt of lightning, a flash of light, which leads to reflection. “The flesh is sad, alas! And I read all the books” (Stéphane Mallarmé, “Sea Breeze”).
The Twitter-X enthusiast is under hypnosis: hundreds of tweets, always evolving, could hide a profound, fundamental observation, which – alas – could escape.
A detail, a tweet, that we ignore, that passes in an instant and then becomes an ectoplasm.
Tweet is Freedom: and Freedom is not only rational, but emotional, a privileged instinct that is heartbeat, reflection, non-standardization, entropy, the Freedom of the Apota.
“I write to contain the world in a sentence” (William Fairley).
So it is, if you like.
Best regards.
Antonio de Grazia
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