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

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 Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh HenHanna: 

 > On 9/3/2024 10:55 PM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
 > >
 > >   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.
 > 
 > so you're a Medical man?

Yes, I fret about blood pressure, and cholesterol, and family history, and
smoking, and broken bones, and language problems of the sort that Cummings
seems to have had. Don’t smoke, it’s bad for you. Get some exercise, I fear you
are not managing 30 minutes a day with your enthusiasm about posting to Usenet.

-- 
‘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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