So how did E. E. Cummings start being written e.e. cummings? I completely didn't know this

Because he broke rules with his poetry in punctuation and spelling, so people started putting his name in without the capitals, assuming that he would have done so. Not so.

So how did E. E. Cummings start being written e.e. cummings?

In his own writing, he never was -- his use of lower case for things like the beginnings of sentences and the pronoun "I" (or rather "i", I guess you could say) was something he was incredibly picky about in his poetry (and his normal-looking uppercase signature), but sloppy editing has classed him as the all-lower-case guy for at least 50 years.

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24: They just said that a warhead disappeared somewhere in Iowa or Illinois. When the "president" asked why satellites didn't pick it up, Mike replied "Well, it's mountainous terrain!Huh? I grew up on that border and I don't remember any MOUNTAINS!

What's porphyria? I looked it up at dictionary.com, but they just said abnormalities in the blood, etc.

It's actually a group of metabolic disorders with a fairly wide range of symptoms that can include psychiatric ones.

Cindy, it's also associated with vampirism because some conditions of porphyria can include blistering and burning of the skin when exposed to sunlight.

E. E. Cummings

Wow.

When I was in college, my geology professor went to some meeting in Indiana, and a geology professor there showed him the geologic sights as a courtesy. He (the Indiana guy) showed him a ridge. My professor asked where it was. He literally couldn't see it. The Indiana guy got a little peeved.

When I was in college, my geology professor went to some meeting in Indiana, and a geology professor there showed him the geologic sights as a courtesy. He (the Indiana guy) showed him a ridge. My professor asked where it was. He literally couldn't see it. The Indiana guy got a little peeved.

To be fair, the northern 2/3rds of Indiana got smooshed flat by the last ice age ice sheets. The lowest 1/3 is quite hilly.

I think this was in the northern 2/3 then, as my understanding is that it was flat as a pancake, and he couldn't see that there was a hill when he was standing on it. Of course, he taught geology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and since his focus was vulcanology, most of the conferences were in Hawaii, so he was used to seeing mountains.

Honestly, the Lizzie Borden thing doesn't actually bother me. It's just with the Cummings thing it feels like fighting the tide.

24 -- I realize that we must suspend some belief here, but:

1. When were there mountains on the Illinois-Iowa border?

2. No friggin' way would a lawyer from "Amnesty Global" get that kind of immediate access to a detainee. Nor would he be able to get a court order or shut down the interrogation like that. The country does not need to become a fascist state to fight terrorism. It's a shame the show wrote this so poorly as some half-assed plot device to get Jack to do something lone-wolfish. (The torture of the Secretary of Defense's son was much better handled, including addressing the security v. rights issue.)'