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      Books Through Hiaku

    Rene Descartes: "Discourse on Method"

    If I think, I am.

        If I don't exist, how do

                I know about me?

Jonathan Swift: "Gulliver's Travels"

    Thus I was first great,

        then small, and much vexed to learn

            that size does matter

Miguel de Cervantes: "Don Quixote"

    Dusk -- the windmills turn

        Is the Don mad, or are we?

            No, it's him all right

William Shakespeare: "Hamlet"

    "His mother wed his

        dead murdered father's brother!"

            Next Jerry Springer

Frank Kafka: "The Metamorphosis"

    "What have I become?"

        Uncertain, Gregor Samsa

            puts out some feelers.

Christopher Marlowe: "Doctor Faustus"

    A scholar trades a

        few fun years for endless Hell

            Math was not his field

Vatsayana: "Kama Sutra"

    Advice for those in

        a difficult position

           First, be flexible

From "Haiku U. From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables" by David M. Bader ©2005