Fresh off of his Twitter experiment in January, where he had more than 30 Twitter users tweet different parts of a story that he curated on his account, Teju Cole is using Twitter again—and it isn't for selfies.
Right now, Cole is tweeting out an essay from the Twitter account @APieceOfTheWall. Here are the first five tweets, and be sure to head to the account to see how it ends:
I hear the sound of faint bells in the distance. It is like a sound in a dream, or the jingling at the beginning of a Christmas song.
Jingle, jingle, jingle. The sound comes closer. Jingle, jingle, jingle.
And then they come in, seventy of them, all men, chained together, bound wrist and waist and foot.
They shuffle bright-sounding into the courtroom, a large bright room which is, for them, a chasm of hopelessness.
What you think is true of the country in which you have arrived is often true only of where in it you are.
