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
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On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Roger Day wrote:
> 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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