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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Haiku instructions from Jack Kerouac..!
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:57:12 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>>  Zod wrote:
>
>>> > > Haiku instructions from Jack Kerouac...
>
>>http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4260/the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac
>
>>> > > "Haiku? You want to hear haiku? You see you got to compress into
>>> three short
>>> > > lines a great big story. First you start with a haiku situation--so
>>> you see a
>>> > > leaf, as I told her the other night, falling on the back of a
>>> sparrow during
>>> > > a great big October wind storm. A big leaf falls on the back of a
>>> little
>>> > > sparrow. How you going to compress that into three lines? Now in
>>> Japanese
>>> > > you got to compress it into seventeen syllables. We don't have to do
>>> that in
>>> > > American--or English--because we don't have the same syllabic
>>> bullshit that
>>> > > your Japanese language has. So you say: "Little sparrow"--you don't
>>> have to
>>> > > say little--everybody knows a sparrow is little because they fall so
>>> you
>>> > > say'..." -Jack Kerouac

Again, well put.