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Re:Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study by jshevek on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:40PM (#22294201)
I don't see how that's relevant, as I was talking about the man, his actions, and the presumption of motive.

Cummings disregarded capitalization norms in his prose as well.

Edit: Maybe you meant: since Cummings wrote a lot of poetry, he is a special case and therefore can be forgiven for disregarding capitalization norms in his prose?

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Re:Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study by bradknowles on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:02PM (#22294372)
It's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity.

I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make that body of poetry meaningful in any way [0].

[0] Well, other than the fact that it got me a free monogrammed PowerBook G4 Laptop sleeve that was being given away by some people who underestimated the willingness of a younger programmer to beseige them with computer-generated haikus. ;)

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Re:Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study by jshevek on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:17PM (#22294465)
Let's keep this in context. Are you saying that Cummings did or did not 'apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading' ?

Edit: Or maybe you are saying that we should only presume motive of people who don't write great works?

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