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|    E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962)    |
|    04 Sep 24 12:03:22    |
      From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz              Born Edward Estlin Cummings, Cambridge MA, 1894. Father was a Harvard       professor, later Unitarian minister.       "His penchant for lower-case was extended to his initials by one of his       publishers, and the practice caught on, though he himself usually kept       the capitals." (Crystal)              anyone lived in a pretty how town       (with up so floating many bells down)       spring summer autumn winter       he sang his didn't he danced his did              Women and men (both little and small)       cared for anyone not at all       they sowed their isn't they reaped their same       sun moon stars rain (1940)              "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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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