> "online celebrity is only ever 240 characters away from online infamy"
Horace, about 2'000 years ago, suggests a (long to modern eyes) embargo[1]:
> "You will have it in your power to blot out what you have not made public: a word once sent abroad can never return."
cautions against seeking internet points from astroturfers[2]:
> "As those who mourn at funerals for pay, do and say more than those that are afflicted from their hearts; so the sham admirer is more moved than he that praises with sincerity."
and even agrees with TFA's psychoanalytic reading[3]:
> "And whomsoever [a mad poet] seizes, he fastens on and assassinates with recitation: a leech that will not quit the skin, till satiated with blood."
[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[2] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[3] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
Amusingly, footnote 3 in the perseus text is a rosetta stone for the scholar's leisurely manner of saying "like and subscribe": "I must beg to recommend to the reader's notice my translation of Aristotle's Poetics, with a collection of notes, as the two treatises contribute to each other's illustration in the fullest extent."
Bonus tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU
Horace, about 2'000 years ago, suggests a (long to modern eyes) embargo[1]:
> "You will have it in your power to blot out what you have not made public: a word once sent abroad can never return."
cautions against seeking internet points from astroturfers[2]:
> "As those who mourn at funerals for pay, do and say more than those that are afflicted from their hearts; so the sham admirer is more moved than he that praises with sincerity."
and even agrees with TFA's psychoanalytic reading[3]:
> "And whomsoever [a mad poet] seizes, he fastens on and assassinates with recitation: a leech that will not quit the skin, till satiated with blood."
[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[2] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[3] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... Amusingly, footnote 3 in the perseus text is a rosetta stone for the scholar's leisurely manner of saying "like and subscribe": "I must beg to recommend to the reader's notice my translation of Aristotle's Poetics, with a collection of notes, as the two treatises contribute to each other's illustration in the fullest extent."
Bonus tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU