Re: Dorothy Livesay -- Mathematics poem

George Dance wrote:

Jordy C wrote:

On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 10:24:16 PM UTC-4, David Dalton wrote:

On Sep 2, 2023, Jordy C wrote
(in article<ebd2c74c-3c0d-4852...@googlegroups.com>):

On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 8:27:34 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 7:53:24 PM UTC-4, Jordy C wrote:

On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 7:43:41 PM UTC-4, David Dalton

wrote:

On Sep 1, 2023, NancyGene wrote
(in article<0c10e922-e0ee-4271...@googlegroups.com>):

On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 4:44:01 AM UTC, David Dalton

wrote:

Here is a poem by Dorothy Livesay from her book
of selected poems, The Self-Completing Tree.
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Mathematics
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I want to play the great game, darling
but only you can play it to perfection:
Much talk..no bed. Some talk..some bed
no talk..all bed; and talk tomorrow.
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I meant to play the great game, darling
and hold your bones deep to the root of one
I meant to play the great game, darling
but the heart for it is gone.
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How do you interpret the poem? In my book I
wrote down lemniscate root of one, perhaps
related to my theory of lemniscate time, but I
have crossed it out. I also wrote down eighth root
of one, where one can be expressed as
e^{2*n*pi*i}, and there are eight eighth roots of one
(there are one two square roots, 1 and -1).
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Of course the heart could also be a cardioid.
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I’ll think about it some more but just wanted to
put it forward for discussion for now.
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Is anyone else on here familiar with Dorothy Livesay?
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Followup-To set to alt.arts.poetry.comments .
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https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the

Thorns (mystic

page)
"And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we

stand”

(Ferron)

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We see that David Dalton has cross-posted this to six other

groups. Spam

x 6
= Spam

No, it was cross-posted to six groups including this one,
four poetry ones and two mathematics ones, all on
topic, and with Followup-To appropriately set to this
group for discussion.
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https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns

(mystic

page)
"And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand”

(Ferron)

Nice to see you again, David! Remember you from a group about 7 or

8 years

ago…

I remember David from the Bob Dylan newsgroup, always something

interesting

to post.
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🙂

yes, I remember his posts being very interesting too...

It could be that that was another David Dalton, possibly the
one who used to write for Rolling Stone and who wrote
several musical biographies, though I have occasionally
posted there, e.g. to say that Bob Dylan is compatible
with Alice Munro. :-)
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https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic
page)
"And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;
And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand” (Ferron)

love Alice Munro's stories... some of them are quite chilling and
disturbing, but they are exceedingly well written and engaging, Imo

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It's too bad you never met Stuart Leichter, who used to post here. He
was a retired academic who thought the world of Munro - and that was
before she won the Nobel Prize.

Yes, Stuart Leichter is one of my favorite poets as well as one of the
most interesting regulars that the poetry newsgroups ever had.
I hope he's doing well wherever he is.