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Is that a Cartesian Product in your pocket? Sorry still catching up. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I sleep on matrices! > P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Tina Bass > Sent: 09 October 2008 10:03 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: SNAP Bass [untitled] > > Doug, Judy, > > Thank you both very much. Judy, 'matrices' is the plural of 'matrix'. I > hear the term used such a lot that it is easy for me to forget that it is > not in most people's vocab. Matrices are used a lot in business theory in > an attempt to show patterns/connections between aspects of a business. > Most of them are absolute bollocks but they make things neat and they look > nice. > > I work in a University Business School btw. Hence my cynicism ;-) > > Tina > --------------------------------------------------------------tinabass@hotma > il.co.ukhttp://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing >> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:52:51 -0400> From: [log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: SNAP Bass [untitled]> To: [log in to unmask]> > Yeah, > agreed, Doug [mistakenly wrote 'Dug' first; oops!].> Last 4 lines scarily > perfect, anchored by first 2 lines establishing 'their'> [our] dogged > [cowed?] ignorance/stupidity.> Don't know what 'matrices' means...never > google words... petc folk usually> give meanings, if asked, so I'm asking.> >> You're a stone cynic, Tina, and crushingly communicate that feeling. Good> > stuff, indeed, built thru bricks of fresh image.> > Judy> > 2008/10/8 > Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>> > > Here I am, not at all sure > about the what, but thoroughly enjoying your> > how, Tina, especially the > final line....> >> > Doug> > On 7-Oct-08, at 5:01 PM, Tina Bass wrote:> >> >>> >> they demand columnisation> >>> >> ask for it> >> and so come > two-by-two> >> matrices> >>> >> universally understood> >> animals like > cows> >>> >> insistent creatures> >>> >> easy drain easy fill> >>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------tinabass> >> > @hotmail.co.ukhttp://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://> >> > www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing> >>> >>> > Douglas Barbour> > > [log in to unmask]> >> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/> >> > > Latest books:> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)> > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664> > Wednesdays'> >> > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h > tml> >> > bleary with hashish at a ghazal dud show> > in Kurdistan, soaring > Muslim melodies> > over a smoked-out Jamaican one drop> >> > Brian Francis > Slattery> >= > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "I began to warm and chill to objects and their fields" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds