![]() (It helped that she was a poet, a fondler and compressor of language.) Her best tweets were tonally filthy but textually clean, like a clothed flasher, their voice so intrinsic to the new medium, so obviously online, that if you tried to explain to a parent or an offline friend what you were laughing at you ended up sounding like a fool. All you needed was style, and Lockwood had it. ![]() Fewer saw that the form could be a kind of fiction, an exercise in pure persona sprung from the manacles of story, or even sense. ![]() Tuna-fish sandwiches versus the Arab Spring: that was the crux of the debate. Back in those days, people tended either to dismiss Twitter as one of the stupider things to have happened in human history-the whole world should care what you had for lunch?-or to celebrate it as a revolution that would usher in a golden age of democracy and peace. Quiddity’s thing,” ’ ” she writes, in her memoir “ Priestdaddy” (2017). “Free in the knowledge that no one was listening, I mostly used it to tweet absurdities like ‘ “Touch it,” Mr. Patricia Lockwood created a Twitter account in 2011. ![]()
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