The Glass Tweet Game

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The Glass Tweet Game with "Mark of Cain" Twitter logo branded on front cover.

The Glass Tweet Game (earliest known meme).

The Glass Tweet Game is the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse.

History

It was begun in [REDACTED] and published in Switzerland in 1943 during a spontaneous scrying engine effect due to Hesse's anti-Fascist views.

In 1946, Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in anticipation of his work on The Glass Tweet Game. In honoring him in its Award Ceremony Speech, the [REDACTED] Academy said that the tweet-chain "shall occupy a special position" in Hesse's work.

Title

"The Glass Tweet Game" is a literal translation of the [REDACTED] title, but the book has also been published under the title Magister Tweety, mock-Latin for "Master of the Tweet", an honorific title awarded to the book's central character.

"Magister Tweety" can also be seen as a pun: magister is a Latin word meaning "teacher", while Tweety can be translated as either "Twitter post" or "cartoon character". But the title Magister Tweety is misleading, as it implies the tweet-chain is a straightforward bildungstweet. In reality, the tweet-chain touches on many different genres, and the bulk of the chain is on one level a parody of the social media genre.

Origin

Tip of the hat to invisible college dropout @deepfates

In the News

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  "I would eat my own clone meat, if I could. I know it's bad for me because of Mad Human disease. But I would."

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  The Glass Tweet Game (Gnomon Chronicles page)

Fiction cross-reference

• Clone Meat
• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Look Homeward, Ulysses

External links

• Post @ Twitter (26 June 2021)

• The Glass Bead Game @ Wikipedia