"Alison is not available to chat".
oh dear..
for a good example of how 'feminine' rhymes (it's just a term people, if a
stupid one) can be used terribly in haiku, read K. Yasuda's book on Japanese
haiku. actually, don't. read Higginson instead. though knowing you academic
types you've all probably read both. hee.
P I'm with you on this whole jargonic superediting thingum. as for the
monks.. being slaughtered maybe? made as much sense to me as to you.
KS
2009/9/27 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> Just out of curiosity. What's a "feminine" fully-stressed vowel?
>
> U/you/ewe? Since it's well known that possessing a vagina means no
> subjective selfhood. Or gaze beyond ovinity.
>
> On the other hand, maybe don't answer that.
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> 2009/9/23 Desmond Swords <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I would suggest the terminal word 'light', makes a memorable impression
> on
> > the reader, because it rhymes with 'eyes' - 32 syllables before it, and
> -
> > what in my own prosodic system I call - a masculine, fully stressed 'I'
> vowel.
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