Comments on: Academic haiku http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Crooked Timber » » Vote for your favorite academic haiku http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-188058 Crooked Timber » » Vote for your favorite academic haiku Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:10:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-188058 [...] got such great response to his academic haiku contest that he decided to categorize the submissions by field. You are requested to cast your vote in the [...] [...] got such great response to his academic haiku contest that he decided to categorize the submissions by field. You are requested to cast your vote in the [...]

]]> By: astrongmaybe http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187914 astrongmaybe Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:55:13 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187914 @16: the funding obtained ...weighing of the disparate... more research needed @16:

the funding obtained

…weighing of the disparate…
more research needed

]]> By: Chris Williams http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187891 Chris Williams Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:10:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187891 Line thee actually should be: "More research needed" And line one is of course: "The funding obtained" So we only have the seven syllables to play with. Line thee actually should be:

“More research needed”

And line one is of course:

“The funding obtained”

So we only have the seven syllables to play with.

]]> By: Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187804 Jim Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:03:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187804 @13: You're right, that could've been better. I think I'm going to give myself a "revise and resubmit" and switch that line to: "Some are, some are not." I'll get more specific two years from now when I'm done with the dissertation. @13: You’re right, that could’ve been better. I think I’m going to give myself a “revise and resubmit” and switch that line to: “Some are, some are not.”

I’ll get more specific two years from now when I’m done with the dissertation.

]]> By: theophylact http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187767 theophylact Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:04:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187767 Allyl sulfoxides Racemize through achiral Allyl sulfenates. Allyl sulfoxides
Racemize through achiral
Allyl sulfenates.

]]> By: astrongmaybe http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187765 astrongmaybe Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:02:03 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187765 But <i>every</i> academic haiku will have to end with "more complex than that." But every academic haiku will have to end with “more complex than that.”

]]> By: Chris Williams http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187732 Chris Williams Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:39:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187732 Foucault: Damiens was split; Prison now harms the psyche Modernity's here. Foucault:

Damiens was split;
Prison now harms the psyche
Modernity’s here.

]]> By: aaron_m http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187723 aaron_m Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:52:13 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187723 Want consent to give just laws legitimacy Kant say pigs can’t fly Want consent to give
just laws legitimacy
Kant say pigs can’t fly

]]> By: Justin Horton http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187714 Justin Horton Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:49:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187714 My favourite haiku, not written (or employed) by me: <i>This haiku is my Official resignation So go fuck yourself</i> My favourite haiku, not written (or employed) by me:

This haiku is my
Official resignation
So go fuck yourself

]]> By: Delicious Pundit http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187705 Delicious Pundit Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:58:36 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187705 Double Dactyls! There's a whole page of them <a href="http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/Higgeldy.txt" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Miseracordia! College of Cardinals Nervously rising to Whisper its will: "Instead of being so Unecumenical Why don't we quietly Swallow the Pill?" Higgledy-piggledy Yale University gave up misogyny, opened its door. Extracurricular heterosexual coeducational fun is in store. Double Dactyls! There’s a whole page of them here.

Miseracordia!
College of Cardinals
Nervously rising to
Whisper its will:
“Instead of being so
Unecumenical
Why don’t we quietly
Swallow the Pill?”

Higgledy-piggledy
Yale University
gave up misogyny,
opened its door.

Extracurricular
heterosexual
coeducational
fun is in store.

]]> By: josh http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187703 josh Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:45:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187703 Oh, the F.H. Bradley haiku is very fine indeed (as is the Hollander) Oh, the F.H. Bradley haiku is very fine indeed (as is the Hollander)

]]> By: Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187701 Jim Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:35:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187701 Hey, thanks for helping to get the word out, Eszter! I've had so many great entries from CT readers in the last few hours that I'm going to be pretty lax about the deadline....I might not be able to post the final list of entries till Thursday evening, so I hope people will continue to send in their poems! Hey, thanks for helping to get the word out, Eszter! I’ve had so many great entries from CT readers in the last few hours that I’m going to be pretty lax about the deadline….I might not be able to post the final list of entries till Thursday evening, so I hope people will continue to send in their poems!

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187700 Kieran Healy Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:56:03 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187700 Or a political Double Dactyl from John Hollander (I think): Higgledy, piggledy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, High over Jutland, flew In from the East; 'Well,' quipped a Minister Plenipotentiary, 'Something is Groton in Denmark, at least.' Or a political Double Dactyl from John Hollander (I think):

Higgledy, piggledy,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
High over Jutland, flew
In from the East;
‘Well,’ quipped a Minister
Plenipotentiary,
‘Something is Groton in
Denmark, at least.’

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187699 Kieran Healy Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:48:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187699 E.g., a Clerihew from Dean Zimmerman about Parfit: Derek Parfit wouldn't wear a scarf. It made him more bold to think someone else would catch cold. E.g., a Clerihew from Dean Zimmerman about Parfit:

Derek Parfit
wouldn’t wear a scarf. It
made him more bold
to think someone else would catch cold.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-187698 Kieran Healy Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:47:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/21/academic-haiku/#comment-187698 I thought either Clerihews or Double-Dactyls were the accepted vehicle for compact summaries of academic ideas. I thought either Clerihews or Double-Dactyls were the accepted vehicle for compact summaries of academic ideas.

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