Seventeen!! Seventeen Syllables!!!

. . . in a haiku

A person should not put herself forth as a proponent of something as beautiful as haiku and then wrongly state that 5 + 5 + 7 = 19. One cannot claim to know all about haiku but be incapable of simple arithmetic.

Seventeen syllables make up a haiku.

And there were other mistakes in this morning’s letter, the others not quite so egregious as that one, but mistakes nonetheless.

Someone (who?) had blundered (to paraphrase Virginia Woolf).

A thousand apologies. I hate reading letters, posts, signs, etc. that are littered with mistakes.

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” - Salvador Dali