Tractatus Tweetus

There are books being published which consist of the Tweets of the compiler of the book... I think "author" is going too far here. The books are just Tweets. I mean, even I could look brainy if all I had to do were to write down obscure insights in less than 200 words or whatever.(She-who-must-be-obeyed nudges me here and says "That is what you do, 'though you do not always stick to exact word count.")

Anyway, so there are books of Tweets to read on your Kindle, all of which will be lost when the electric power grid fails.

This is all a result of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus...
the book is pretty much put together like a Tweet compilation.

This is an excerpt from the book Laconia
http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2011/05/laconia.html



Very Wittgenstein... or bits and pieces from the ancient Greek Poets in the Loeb Library's Lyra Graeca where the disparate snippets of lyric poetry snatched from oblivion are compiled, such as the enigmatic scrap from Sappho:

"...more golden than gold..."

I guess I mean that if this keeps up, our literature will appear to be "lost" and surviving only in unconnected scraps long before the archaeologists of the future dig them out of the ground at the level of the Kindle Katastrophe.
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