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Unread 11-08-2015, 10:14 AM
Michael Cantor Michael Cantor is offline
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My instinct is to go with the hyphenated one with nothing else to go on, but it really revolves entirely on context. Depending on what the rest of the poem (or essay rebutting Heidegger - whatever) looks like, how quirky or non-quirky it is, what kind of punctuation you my or may not be using, whether the narrator (if there is one) is decidedly and deliberately young or old or hip or not - plus any number of other factors I can only imagine, and might get one or both of us arrested - the choice should, if possible, reflect its surroundings. As I said, I prefer the hyphenated one, but do not believe that God would strike you dead (maybe a hernia) if the totality of the piece led to one of the other choices.
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