But after these glittering milliseconds of inspiration, I would go back to my I would like these tweets from time to time, a half-hearted attempt to bookmark some of Carson’s phrases. One of the accounts I stumbled upon was the ‘anne carson bot’ and I was taken by the intriguing simplicity of the quotes though I had no context for which of Carson’s work they were from. Though I struggle to make time to read for pleasure, this was a way to delude myself into convincing myself that I can still claim to be ‘a reader’. Unlike their more exciting cousins like artificial intelligence bots, these bots on Twitter are far more rudimentary and are just automated accounts that post quotes from certain authors or books, every few hours.

This leads me to adjacent interests like American politics tweets I vaguely understand and the pop culture argument du jour.Ī genre of accounts that the algorithm swayed me to follow was ‘literary bots’.

As I have given the algorithm more knowledge and ability to divine things I would find interesting, the site shows me curated tweets liked by people I follow. I enjoy following accounts that post pretentious analyses of Bollywood films, errors in The New York Times’ word games, or people who have interesting careers in journalism or academia. I don’t use Twitter much, except to lurk. Without realizing it, however, I had been encountering her work for months - on Twitter. Seeing posters for her “History of Skywriting” talk all around campus, I didn’t think I had ever heard of her before. Her writing often includes literary allusions, especially from ancient Greek and Latin works. Anne Carson, who will be visiting to speak on campus on Wednesday and Thursday this week, is a Canadian poet, translator and professor.

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