Jimmy Chen

Franzen’s tweets sans ‘p’

10 Comments

1. March 8th, 2012 / 8:10 pm leapsloth14—

   Somebody getting into the zone tonight. Good to hang with you Chicago, Jimmy. 

2. March 8th, 2012 / 8:11 pm Bobby Dixon—

   “feel that rolling ennies in my mouth are a form of economic nostalgia”

3. March 8th, 2012 / 8:16 pm John Doe—

   Dude, cold lay is so overrated, them and muse. they have some good works, but i’ve never been a huge ro onent of their works

4. March 8th, 2012 / 8:20 pm rawbbie—

   I would read the shit out of ‘Freedom’ translated into wingdings.

5. March 8th, 2012 / 8:21 pm deadgod—

   ha ha ha  replacements (for sempiternal omissions)

   schlong, italian doll-coffee, bit . ly [together], shindigs/soirees, Mr. Gwyneth’s band, [RT unnoticeable], chanters, flatfeet, doling out, /

6. March 9th, 2012 / 4:27 am Matthew Snee—

   Ha ha, “The Socialist’s Daughter” funniest thing I have heard all day. It’s sad though that books like that are actually written… and published — a lot.  

7. March 9th, 2012 / 5:54 am Matthew Snee—

   I just reread Roxane’s article on Salon, and then the comments for it.  Damn does she get flamed.  I guess I always knew Salon readers were assholes — I certainly am.   Thank you Roxane.

8. March 11th, 2012 / 12:38 am Dylan Kinnett—

   there’s still a “p” in “imperceptible” here.

9. March 11th, 2012 / 2:25 pm Jimmy Chen—

   when u retweet something u can’t edit it, it simply retweets; so, as a comprehensive realist, i struggled with whether or not to take the sans p literally, or actually, and chose the latter. with the missing p’s in ‘http,’ i similarly struggled, but ultimately felt imagined franzen deleting each ‘p,’ and felt giddy about that

10. March 11th, 2012 / 6:11 pm deadgod—

    There’s the option of ” @ copiedhandle RT Hand-copied text. “, with a gap (or, with some editorial arrogance, a bracketed emendation, as I’ve offered without brackets).  Not sure how strict Franz-o is in applying constraints, but one could choose-as-constrained only direct retweets that conform to the master-constraint.  (Question:  in Perec’s book, is there no cheating in the text Perec directly authored?  He was joyfully rigid in playing the constraint game? –as a kind of erotic exercise.)

    Am unusually sure that if Franz-o tried such a project and cheated-at-solitaire in this way, he’d be angrily denounced for conniving to support capitalistic degradation of Everything Virtuous, Franzen Derangement Syndrome seems so annihilatory of nuance to me.

    Would, on twitter, the http : // introduction to an address print in blue – that is, be an active link – if the “p” were left out?