We’re getting heat all right, Doug but no bananas. All my recent reading
suggests writing haiku in English should ignore the syllable count as it
applied to the Japanese where syllables work much differently.
Bill
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 3:26 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Looked it Bill (& why isn’t it literal, given your heat aves right now?).
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> A small argument for ignoring the syllable count…
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> Doug
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> > On Jan 10, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > That’s what I was after, Patrick.
> >
> > Bill
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> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 3:33 am, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> Bill cool bananas has for me a touch of madness!
> >>
> >> On 10/01/2019 07:37, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>> Thanks, Sheila. Not literally bananas down here at this time of the
> year
> >> of
> >>> course.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 10:37 am, Sheila Murphy <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Resonance, Bill, in residence! Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:46 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> >
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> a big green frond
> >>>>>
> >>>>> shades the stone-fringed pond
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - cool bananas
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> bw
> >>>>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it
> was a British building secret.
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