From b8692b6e6b75149094fdb65274e80518aec6d0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Moerner Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:28:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] first round of computer revision --- poem-2 | 6 +++--- poem-4 | 6 +++++- poem-6 | 11 ++++++----- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/poem-2 b/poem-2 index ae5db78..5916bdd 100644 --- a/poem-2 +++ b/poem-2 @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ Oh, failure, bringing thoughts depressing dark, How wasted chances, precious minutes lost, -A curious confluence of skill and luck, +A curious confluence of skill and luck Combine to take a toll of dreadful cost. Before, success lay quivering so near, But fleeing even hope forever now -Full banished, and accompanied by leers, +Full banished, and accompanied by leers A stigma ever daring not to bow. As wine and vinegar, if not for both, The rich bouquet would not be so full-bodied, -The contrast making every tastebud goeth, +The contrast making every tastebud goeth insane with joy for savory sip so lauded. The same it is for failure and success, Without a loss a win would mean much less. diff --git a/poem-4 b/poem-4 index e16adc8..61dae43 100644 --- a/poem-4 +++ b/poem-4 @@ -3,18 +3,22 @@ I remember playing games with my father, as a child. Who could say the largest number? But he always foiled me, because he responded not with numbers, but with procedures. -Your number plus one, +Your number plus one, what a bother, or my worst enemy, infinity. +A game that could serve to drive one +well nigh towards insanity. When I look for you or try to comprehend you, you flee from my grasp. Some say that I should put up layers of abstraction-- +On the confusing, a mask, that to manage complexity, some things cannot be comprehended. I see a curve, vertical on one infinite scale, horizontal on another, and linear when both are reduced nigh to zero. +It haunts me as a female, Infinity is everywhere-- a cold, a sneeze away, and never quite gone from the mind. diff --git a/poem-6 b/poem-6 index 99306ec..99e590d 100644 --- a/poem-6 +++ b/poem-6 @@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ Poem 7 - Daniel Moerner There was a young woman by the lake, Who a delicious lunch could not make, But she met a man, - Who was on the lamb, -And learn she did solely for his sake! + Who was on the lam, +And she did learn solely for his sake! Poem 8 - Daniel Moerner The attenuated intensional meanings of a word, -Circumizing many extensions into few. +Circumcizing many extensions into few. Is there a rhetorical organ? I would ablate it. @@ -26,5 +26,6 @@ references, senses, all constitute the simplest sentence. And yet--the world is richer, -more luxurious, more complete, than it would be, -if not for the canon of Russell and Frege \ No newline at end of file +more luxurious, more complete, +than it would be, if not +for the canon of Russell and Frege \ No newline at end of file -- 2.11.4.GIT