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ExHaltzorocoaster t1_jdkethp wrote

There’s also a passage that says “Twitter litter” , bet he coined a lot of things coincidentally because he was creating every possible twist on English words

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bibliophile222 t1_jdl0lzo wrote

Twitter was already a word before the site, it's a way to describe bird sounds.

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zendrumz t1_jdmyfam wrote

Also, “three quarks for Muster Mark”. Finnegans Wake will live (in infamy perhaps) as long as there’s physics. Personally I love the Wake. I read some out loud at a party once after my friends expressed their disbelief that it was worth the paper it was printed on, and almost immediately everyone was laughing hysterically. 600 pages of multilingual puns might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it made as much sense as the John Ashbery I’ve been reading lately.

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