Meet Herbert West — Reanimator

“I am Herbert West.  I can revive the dead corpses of your corpus with a serum that restores them to discursive life!” Of Herbert West, who was my friend in college and on Twitter, I can speak only with extreme terror. This terror is not due altogether to the sinister manner of his recent disappearance, but was engendered by the whole nature of his textual work, and first gained its acute form more than seventeen years ago, when we were in the third year of our course at the Natural Language University Medical School on MySpace. While he was with me, the wonder and diabolism of his literary experiments fascinated me utterly, and I was his closest companion. Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities. Herbert West is a Twitter bot that creates perverted re-tweets by analyzing  grammar and replacing selected words with grammatically similar choices from a database culled from the H. P. Lovecraft story “Herbert West — Reanimator”.  He was created by extremely mad scientist Brendan...

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