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Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962)

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 Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > [...] "The seeds of Cummings' unconventional style appear well established
 > even in his earliest work. At age six, he wrote to his father:
 > 
 >     FATHER DEAR. BE, YOUR FATHER-GOOD AND GOOD,
 >     HE IS GOOD NOW, IT IS NOT GOOD TO SEE IT RAIN,
 >     FATHER DEAR IS, IT, DEAR, NO FATHER DEAR,
 >     LOVE, YOU DEAR,
 >     ESTLIN.
 > 
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

  ‘M. L. Rosenthal wrote that: “The chief effect of Cummings' jugglery with
  syntax, grammar, and diction was to blow open otherwise trite and bathetic
  motifs through a dynamic rediscovery of the energies sealed up in
  conventional usage ... He succeeded masterfully in splitting the atom of the
  cute commonplace.[1]”’

If he were a patient of mine I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were
ischaemic damage to Broca’s area on an MRI brain.

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)

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E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-09-04 12:03 +1200
  Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-09-03 17:15 -0700
    Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-09-05 16:46 -0700
    Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) - 2025-02-07 13:12 +0000
  Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-09-04 06:55 +0100
    Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-09-05 16:49 -0700
      Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-09-07 16:17 +0100
        Re: E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962) dougstaples@gmx.com (LionelEdwards) - 2024-09-07 15:29 +0000

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