Emotional hydraulics of the Internet

It is ridiculous to claim that the Internet is only as constraining to the expression of emotion as is the printed page. Poetry, of course has dedicated itself to the proposition that script in lines with margins, and often neither a surprising lexicon nor syntax can express all that can be felt. The fact, however is that poetry implies a reader-of-poems, a peculiar creature which not only agrees with the initial supposition but even defends it with their readership and their deeply said reports of that effect. This reader is not, of course, born of the page, but the page requires a codes and the codex a shelf and so on, until there is a total social environment which demands, confirms, and displays the page. Without this space there would be no reader-of-poems. It is the lingering among other readers which trains readership. And the Internet, in too many cases, only trains readership through the reports withing the texts themselves. If the emotional spectrum which binds Twitter, for instance, open, can be learned at all, it cannot certainly, be said to resemble that other one. What then are emotions here? Why can one never weep through a tweet? Certainly, no new service (the solution to all internet dillemmas) would be adequate. There is no weepbot.


"If you want to destroy the error, destroy the book." -Pico