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Thursday, February 12, 2009


Love, in six words or less, or it's free!
Can six words sum up love? Can six words sum up heartache?

Well, the terse memoir collectors are back with “Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak,” published by HarperCollins.

The original volume, “Not Quite What I Was Expecting”, compiled by Larry Smith and Rachel Feshleiser, inspired an avalanche of America-style haiku, including 425 comments on City Room. (The memoirs are a bit more flexible than Japanese haiku, because the limit is in words, rather than syllables.) The original project was inspired, in part, by the legend of Ernest Hemingway’s response to a challenge to write a six-word story: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
How 'bout "Pregnant, and know where I live."



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