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New Yorker haiku'd / distills vast oceans of prose / into meaning drops
On the Heels of The Morning News' Obit Laureate and our own Final Word project, Drunken Volcano is a blog dedicated to condensing The New Yorker into haiku. Author inmichigan explains:
I enjoy reading The New Yorker on a weekly basis, but often feel like it could be more concise. For example, Seymour Hersh's piece "Watching Lebanon" in the Aug. 21 issue was brilliant, original reporting on the thinking behind Israel's bombing campaign in Lebanon. I think we can all agree that it does no disservice to the importance of the article to observe that, at 5077 words, it was roughly 5060 words too long.
Annals of National Security: Watching Lebanon
By Seymour M. Hersh
Israel provides
Great test for "bomb Iran" plan.
(Hmm, maybe needs work?)
A few more gems from recent weeks:
Profiles: The Wanderer
By David Remnick
Now ex-Prez, Clinton
Working to save Africa
As Friend of Bill (Gates).
Letter From Gaza: The Forgotten War
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Hamas suffering.
Wimpy rockets, and no press?
"We're the real martyrs!"
Books: The philosopher Stoned
By Adam Kirsch
Walter Benjamin:
Stayed clear thinker on hashish,
Less so Marxism.
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