@Horse_ebooks, the inexplicably famous spambot that won the Internet with its nonsensical verbal juxtapositions and random observations (if that's even the right word), has been called poetic before, but one writer is taking the account's "poetry" seriously.
Now this is a Tumblr we want to see carry on for a while, though it looks like a lot of work: A companion volume to the enigmatic and wildly popular @Horse_ebooks Twitter account, explaining the origin of the non-sequitur comments we love.
If we had 70,000 cultish followers, we'd probably do the same thing that creator Alexey Kouznetsov did with the very-silly @Horse_ebooks Twitter account and use it as a key part of our credentials.
Two Internet favorites seem to be leading parallel lives on Twitter. Whose tweet belongs to whom? Test yourself.
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