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"As for writing using new technologies, IMHO we need to chill. We ridicule the license plate brevity of tweets and text messages, but one person's Facebook update is another's new genre. Most of the writers I know love short forms. An epitaph is a short form: 'To know him was to love him.' The haiku is way shorter than 140 characters. Decades ago, the telegram ruled. Some of the most famous could serve as mini-literature. A reporter writing a profile of Cary Grant sent this telegram to verify the charming actor's age: HOW OLD CARY GRANT? To which he replied: OLD CARY GRANT FINE, HOW YOU?" -- Roy Peter Clark, author of The Glamour of Grammar, interviewed in The New York Times, 2010-08-20