I don't know if this is Lori's solution to her puzzle, but if you take her base line ID LEERED THERE ALCHEMISTS SWEPT and strike out letters from it in three different ways, you can generate these three haiku-forming lines:
"Idle ethereal mists!"
I'd leered; "There alchemists swept,
Ere real chemists wept!"
Note that the first line only works if we accept Merriam-Webster's syllabification of "ethereal, which is "ethe-re-al," three syllables. The Oxford American Dictionary, for one, gives the word four syllables:
"e-the-re-al." (Personally, I'd syllabify it "e-ther-e-al.")
Hi T,
I don't know if this is Lori's solution to her puzzle, but if you take her base line ID LEERED THERE ALCHEMISTS SWEPT and strike out letters from it in three different ways, you can generate these three haiku-forming lines:
"Idle ethereal mists!"
I'd leered; "There alchemists swept,
Ere real chemists wept!"
Note that the first line only works if we accept Merriam-Webster's syllabification of "ethereal, which is "ethe-re-al," three syllables. The Oxford American Dictionary, for one, gives the word four syllables:
"e-the-re-al." (Personally, I'd syllabify it "e-ther-e-al.")
Jim Puder