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THREE BASIC HAIKU MANTRAS
Show not tell
Less is more
Sincerity
This is about fundamental aesthetics of FORM - aesthetics of subject would include at least seasonal reference (if not kigo - there's a big difference).
S L O G A N S
P R I M A R Y S L O G A N
SHOW not tell
(SENSE don't think)
S E C O N D A R Y S L O G A N
LESS is more
(or less)
T E R T I A R Y S L O G A N
Sincerity
(is an open heart)
We'll fill in some details for each of the basic mantras of haiku shortly. This is part of a spread out thing and several strands run in parallel. Use the search box to explore. . .
jp 19-06-12
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also see → mindful
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov (Russian playwright and master of the modern short story, 1860-1904)
“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.” T.S.Elliot (1888 – 1965) Objective Correlative
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Think MOVIE (a living process encapsulated in a dream conjured by allusion triggered by minimal textually scripted cues) - one step from (literally) a magical journey. . .
Iceberg Theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Iceberg Theory (also known as the "theory of omission") is the writing style of American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway began his writing career as a reporter. Journalistic writing, particularly for newspapers, focuses only on events being reported, omitting superfluous and extraneous matter...
Objective correlative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.orgAn objective correlative is a literary term referring to a symbolic article used to provide explicit, rather than implicit, access to such traditionally inexplicable concepts as emotion or colour.
"Nature is not mono, a physical entity. It is koto, the act of becoming; a creative force in a continuum of change. His poetry is activity (process, objective) biased."
"Like our ing [gerund], koto [not the harp] has no practical use by itself. If you have to have a translation, "'the thing of' is probably the closest you can get."
try this. . .
ran quick test from here (PDF'd the page)
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