TWITTER MESSAGES AS AN AMERICAN ART FORM.

TWITTER MESSAGES AS AN AMERICAN ART FORM. It seems to me that Twitter has led to a flowering of a traditional American art form, the wise crack. (I realize that referring to twitter messages rather than tweets in the caption is an indication that I have not entered the twitter world). There were a lot of sitcoms that were built around wise cracks, and movie comedies in the thirties relied on them. “Wisecracking” is a common epithet for Philip Marlowe. A quote from Marlowe in THE HIGH WINDOW: “I asked him when we were through cracking wise at each other….”