:-)
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I think I could go with your Spanish proverb for a while
On 4/9/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Okay, I'll ask it again in a few days or weeks, but
> these guys don't often change their minds, except
> about little things: you know, how to establish
> world peace, how to slow or reverse global warming,
> etc.
>
> Hal
>
> "How beautiful it is to do nothing,
> and then rest afterward."
> --Spanish proverb
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Roger Day wrote:
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> > Maybe it was feeling cross at the time. Maybe it was feeling poorly?
> > After all, it had just been written.
> >
> > On 4/8/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> I've already asked it, and it said, "No."
> >>
> >> Hal
> >>
> >> "Cross / a border every day, and leave
> >> your luggage in the station."
> >> --Wendy Battin
> >>
> >> Halvard Johnson
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> >>
> >> On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:51 PM, MC Ward wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hal, for what it's worth, I think this sonnet wants to
> >> > be a prose poem--Candice
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --- Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Sonnet: In Fine Fettled Sleep
> >> >>
> >> >> Between the artificial hills and the more pragmatic
> >> >> wavelets, back in the analog age, mathematical
> >> >> proofs
> >> >> proved worthless. Some angular deflections invited
> >> >> trisections and later even quintisections, among
> >> >> other
> >> >>
> >> >> impossible feats. Foolproof analogies calibrated our
> >> >> volt-meters, reminding us of the First Law of
> >> >> Baseball:
> >> >> There's no Game Five after four have already been
> >> >> lost.
> >> >> Humdrum solutions to perfectly humdrum problems.
> >> >>
> >> >> "Das ist kein Mann!" sings Siegfried italicly,
> >> >> Brünnhilde
> >> >> resting yet in fire-shielded sleep. What's most
> >> >> remarkable
> >> >> fails to surprise us any longer. All true theorums
> >> >> are trivial,
> >> >> as she once sang. We joke about this with
> >> >> co-workers,
> >> >>
> >> >> but never to the boss. And yet, keeping the door
> >> >> open just
> >> >> a crack allows x and not-x to sweetly cohabit the
> >> >> room.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hal
> >> >>
> >> >> Halvard Johnson
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> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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