tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post1206704690545262565..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): Poetry Friday: Painfully Bad MathSarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-47125216508031105682007-11-03T05:18:00.000-07:002007-11-03T05:18:00.000-07:00These poems are frighteningly reminiscent of my cu...These poems are frighteningly reminiscent of my current investigation into the roots of the Philosophy of Language. See <A HREF="http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/archives/sum2000/entries/logical-form/" REL="nofollow">this article</A>, down just before the Bibliography, and you'll get an idea.<BR/><BR/>Somehow, it appears that <I>somebody</I> got hold of some formal logic somewhere & applied it to relationships between people!David T. Macknethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03074123750929335716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-74649987405519891932007-11-03T02:28:00.000-07:002007-11-03T02:28:00.000-07:00That one's on my TBR list at goodreads. I'm a suck...That one's on my TBR list at goodreads. I'm a sucker for math + literature.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-8787931869979648622007-11-02T14:47:00.000-07:002007-11-02T14:47:00.000-07:00Aquafortis - I think the word you want is "tastele...Aquafortis - I think the word you want is "tastelessness." The <I>tastelessness</I> required to reprint your high school poetry...<BR/><BR/>Sara - have you read Wendy Lichtman's <I>Secrets, Lies & Algebra</I>? I had a great idea writing poetry in equations; she does a book and uses them and I think it's amazing.tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-39796370814397006172007-11-02T12:56:00.000-07:002007-11-02T12:56:00.000-07:00I fully accept the blame, if this is the reward!I ...I fully accept the blame, if this is the reward!<BR/><BR/>I like the idea that you had a whole Equation Series. How ambitious. And really, math IS a language. I think that was why I loved algebra...yes, I did, I'll admit it.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-43365052228224832832007-11-02T12:52:00.000-07:002007-11-02T12:52:00.000-07:00Never in a million years would I match up math and...Never in a million years would I match up math and poetry! Wow. Too much for this exhausted brain to process but WOW!<BR/><BR/>Beautiful cactusGina Ruizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05700132250640308115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-77592176220916466202007-11-02T11:32:00.000-07:002007-11-02T11:32:00.000-07:00You've inspired me to post one of my own.You've inspired me to post one of my own.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793618692608823102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-49635372046620334722007-11-02T10:35:00.000-07:002007-11-02T10:35:00.000-07:00Wow, you were really well read in high school...I ...Wow, you were really well read in high school...<BR/><BR/>I had (and have) an Eliot thing, too, I have to admit. But I don't know if I have the something-or-other required to reprint my high school poetry online...Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-35302787187670831582007-11-02T10:18:00.000-07:002007-11-02T10:18:00.000-07:00TSE!?!?!Geez, guys, my high school self just came ...<I>TSE!?!?!</I><BR/>Geez, guys, my high school self just came out all in hives.<BR/><BR/>I do adore the gloomy old man, too. Which is why I also signed all my poems <I>T.S.</I>. HUBRIS!!!tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-91731466432908858102007-11-02T09:29:00.000-07:002007-11-02T09:29:00.000-07:00I spied Eliot in that second one, too. And the fir...I spied Eliot in that second one, too. And the first was was great until the pain part, which didn't really seem to fit. But obviously, you were a tortured soul at the time. Stupid boys.<BR/><BR/>I love the math equation about boys and their IQs. Just don't let John Green get hold of it (have you seen the equation in An Abundance of Katherines?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-16428916555509395892007-11-02T08:12:00.000-07:002007-11-02T08:12:00.000-07:00Wait a second, I think I should've used the > sign...Wait a second, I think I should've used the > sign instead of the = sign...<BR/><BR/>I think I'll leave the math poems in your care.Vivian Mahoneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285339307161020541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-50745497878996979222007-11-02T08:00:00.000-07:002007-11-02T08:00:00.000-07:00I didn't like math either. But I wasn't clever eno...I didn't like math either. But I wasn't clever enough to play with it through poems.jamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859083373087448194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-59183763073967427242007-11-02T07:20:00.000-07:002007-11-02T07:20:00.000-07:00very TSE! Ashes, ashes.....lovely.very TSE! Ashes, ashes.....lovely.divatobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06095147565213985782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-33467865777348564712007-11-02T07:17:00.000-07:002007-11-02T07:17:00.000-07:00Math like this makes alot of sense! Thanks for sha...Math like this makes alot of sense! Thanks for sharing. <BR/><BR/>I'm impressed you kept your high school poems. I think I threw away alot of my writing from way back. Thus...<BR/><BR/>High School You + Bravery = High School Me - CourageVivian Mahoneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285339307161020541noreply@blogger.com