31 July 2010

there are thirteen ways

there are thirteen ways of
looking at infinity and
half a dozen empty
beers on the counter to
days left behind and left
still to finish too
many things to see you who
laissez-faire so much you
who live with someone so
crazy but the
sun-fall on them
ship-bare shoulders there the sum
total of
arithmetic and
all truths.
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7 comments:

  1. sarachkaAugust 1, 2010 at 4:44 a.m.

    thirteen ways of looking at infinity: fantastic

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  2. QuitmoanezAugust 1, 2010 at 8:59 a.m.

    nice!

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  3. Lorne RobertsAugust 2, 2010 at 8:48 a.m.

    thanks, but wallace stevens just called from beyond the grave to claim that "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" came first. :)

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  4. sarachkaAugust 2, 2010 at 10:16 a.m.

    by coincidence, he also just called me and said that he likes to share, and likes the new direction.

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  5. Lorne RobertsAugust 2, 2010 at 10:59 a.m.

    heh. nice.

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  6. caraAugust 4, 2010 at 9:19 a.m.

    connections between truth and numbers are always interesting to me, from a methodological point of view our faith in numbers amazes me.

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  7. Lorne RobertsAugust 4, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.

    yeah, me too.

    partly intentionally, and partly not, numbers became a recurring theme here.

    thirteen-- infinity-- 1/2 a dozen-- empty (i.e. zero)-- to days (two days)-- too/two many-- sum-- total-- arithmetic--.

    but at the end i wrote "truths" and not "truth". which is quite different.

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