Re: Seymour: A needless Quotation
jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:39:53 -0400 (EDT)
speaking of which: does anyone else feel that Seymour was cheating with
his "double" haiku? Isn't the point of the haiku to jam as much as you
can into 5/7/5 and yet make it as simple as possible? I always felt that
it was Occidental hubris that allowed him to change the form.
Of course, JDS is no poet. That's why he never laid it down on the
page for us. Thank god he didn't try.
-j
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Matt Kozusko wrote:
> After years of intense pondering, meticulous calculations and
> approximately 477 hours at the helm of a Hinman collator, I have
> suddenly changed my views on Seymour's suicide entirely.
>
> Seymour killed himself because the people on his haiku-l mailing list
> wouldn't edit the quoted material in their posts.
>
> --
> Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
>