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   Ross Clark to All   
   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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