On 2006 May 20, at 2:22 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote:
You say " it 'implies" the context of the original without
including all of the words."
So are you saying that you would leave out anywords from a found
phrase that has the offending letter and otherwise keep the other
words?
No, you have to stop before you get to a word that has the following
mesoletter.
The choice of how many wing words is just that - choice and this has
been a bugaboo to some folks
who'd always thought that Cage made NO choices, but he actually made
quite a few choices in his compositions.
For me, I think the ideal number of wing words is the minimum number
that would convey a thought. If Madawg, for example, decided to write
a mesostic with just single words, then there would be nothing "anti-
mesostic" about it.
A criteria *could* be that if you could successfully convey what you
wanted using the minimum number of words - even NO wing words - then
maybe this could be considered a well-done mesostic
but, there are really no rules concerning this (except for the main
rule).
I'm more inclined to enjoy the beauty of how it actually looks on
paper with the wing words
as well as it's brief expression. There are some other beautiful
forms that do this quite well too - the haiku, the autoku, etc...
Here's a 100% mesostic on "The Gettysburg Address" using LINCOLN (no
"L" *OR* "I" between "L" and "I"):
equaL
so conceIved
aNd
dediCated
lOng
fieLd
fittiNg
we shouLd do
thIs
larger seNse
dediCate
hallOw this
struggLed
coNsecrated
worLd
wIll
Note
it Can
fOrget
Last
devotioN
highLy
dIed
Nation
Rod
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