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>because god doesnt exist. Except in the imagination.< Josephine I just asked g-d about this question and she says she's still thinking on that one. Best Dave David Bircumshaw Leicester, England Home Page A Chide's Alphabet Painting Without Numbers http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Printmaker" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:23 PM Subject: Re: A beautiful mind KENT JOHNSON wrote: > > Question for Douglas: If mathematics is from the mind of God and > poetry is made of mud and brittle bones, do we poets stand a > better chance of touching truth by joining Oulipo? mathematics cant be about the mind of god, because god doesnt exist. Except in the imagination. But math is a abstract construction too, like accounting, both of which reside in the imagination. In which case, math is not _from_ god, but = to god. The two are the same thing, ask any mathemetician Derrida was fogetting that the universe contains the other half of the ven diagram, ie the entire class of 'not-text'; and we access the world through it too. j