> Hello Arthur,
               I enjoyed this a lot. It really captures the feeling of letting one´s thoughts wander while at a lecture. And I love the descriptions of the doodles. Nice one.


Best wishes,   Mike


> Lähettäjä: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/04/24 la PM 08:41:09 GMT+03:00
> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> Aihe: new Sub: Maths Lecture Doodles
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> Maths Lecture Doodles.
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> A cough and pause; 
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> notes consulted over glittering glasses.
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> We wait.
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> Webs of hieroglyphs to snare thought
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> spun from the soft whisper of pencil over A four graph,
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> spirals, irrelevancies, grotesques and curlicues,
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> stick man, withered cat and wind bent palm.
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>                                     The voice resumes.
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> Aleph-null trails its host through countable infinities,
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> Ein Sof , an abstraction eternalized in one symbol,
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> logos of ennui, disconnection, portals to other places.
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> Blurred riffle of pad tumbles curled shavings, drifts of dust. 
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> Neighbour watches neighbour; considers one-to-one correspondence;
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> an elbow below a cotton sleeve crooks in whorls and dimples,  
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> glow of down on arm and cheek, the knot of hair, a puzzled sash,
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> pert arch of brow, pencil gnawed in thought.
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> Over the tables light expresses through dimensional complexities; 
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>                                    the voice drones on,
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> a dragon uncurls over the netted paper, towers rise,
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> bars of sunlight confine a chaos of stirred minutiae.
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