Comments on: My Personal Spring http://iwassaying.net/2008/04/17/my-personal-spring/ Chatter, memories and rants. Don't stop me if you've heard this one before. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Pete http://iwassaying.net/2008/04/17/my-personal-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Pete Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:24:32 +0000 http://iwassaying.net/?p=67#comment-170 Thanks for stopping by, Naomi. You're right about e.e. cummings. I find that a lot of those poems I used to love seem just silly these days, but the man had a grownup side, too, and a razor sharp sensibility. About 15 years ago, I took a few computer science classes at the local university. The text for the C++ programming course contained part of a cummings poem (Buffalo Bill's defunct...) as an illustration of how the programming language handled strings of text. I read the poem fragment in the text and rattled off the rest of the poem from memory. The student next to me, about 19 years old, looked at me quizzically. "Why would you want to know that?" he asked. What? I still don't have an answer for that question! Anyway, I may go back and read more e.e. cummings myself. Pete Thanks for stopping by, Naomi. You’re right about e.e. cummings. I find that a lot of those poems I used to love seem just silly these days, but the man had a grownup side, too, and a razor sharp sensibility.

About 15 years ago, I took a few computer science classes at the local university. The text for the C++ programming course contained part of a cummings poem (Buffalo Bill’s defunct…) as an illustration of how the programming language handled strings of text.

I read the poem fragment in the text and rattled off the rest of the poem from memory. The student next to me, about 19 years old, looked at me quizzically. “Why would you want to know that?” he asked.

What? I still don’t have an answer for that question!

Anyway, I may go back and read more e.e. cummings myself.

Pete

]]> By: naomi dagen bloom http://iwassaying.net/2008/04/17/my-personal-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-169 naomi dagen bloom Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:10:38 +0000 http://iwassaying.net/?p=67#comment-169 wonderful e.e. cummings words you left at TGB. thanks for the reminder of how powerful his poems were for me in another time. perhaps i need to refer back. wonderful e.e. cummings words you left at TGB. thanks for the reminder of how powerful his poems were for me in another time. perhaps i need to refer back.

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