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I like it, too. Keep the poet ghosts, fake or real, 'twinkling' Twitter. I do remember back in the late 60's here at the San Francisco International Airport where the 'white phone' operator could be occasionally heard over the PA system, "Victor Hugo, Victor Hugo. Can you please report to the closest "white phone. You have a call from Gustav Flaubert in 'baggage.'" The names would switch from Rimbaud to Baudelaire, etc. I, once put in a call to ask Jack Spicer to meet Federico Garcia Lorca at the Iberian Airways ticket counter. Anything to 'up' poetry's profile! Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: While JHP twinkles for you in Twitter (was Re: Ron Silliman added you as a friend on Facebook...) To: [log in to unmask] Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 2:52 PM Erm. Does it matter? I'm FB "friends" with Garcia Lorca, Sappho and Rilke as well as Pound - never assumed they were actually behind the web pages. And it's kind of fun. xA On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That's exactly what happened in the case of Slavoj Zizek. Someone asked him in person > in Istanbul whether he had ever set up Twitter and Facebook accounts. He said no. > Twitter apparently double-checked and then removed all traces of SZ's frontal identity. > Even though I had believed and had even sent him a response to a direct invitation post, I > wasn't particularly disturbed by the impersonation, eventually taking it as a performance. > > Pierre Bourdieu on Twitter four hours ago: "Ask me anything:" Twitter must have a > different policy if the figure represented is deceased. > > Barry > > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:12:18 +1100, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>It shouldn't be so easy to impersonate another. >> >>Are any checks done? >> >>eg ask Prynne, Zizek, Pound, etc., can that possibly be you? >> >>On the other hand, it pleases me that old Ezra is there. >> >>Reminds me of having to sign 'present' at Friday's French literature lectures in >>Auckland in 1955 - >> >>the dead outnumbered the living - >> >>Victor Hugo was a regular. >> >>Max >> >>Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>: >> >>> The absence of JHP's students and the so-called "Cambridge School" from the >>> list of his >>> "followers" on Twitter makes me wonder who is responsible for that account. >>> I was more >>> convinced by Slavoj Zizek's presence until direct questions revealed that he >>> had never set >>> up a Twitter account. >>> >>> Barry > -- Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com