Numerous number systems beyond the real:
complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat
whole black holes.
It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences,
how you feel
account for nothing at all.
$30 buys a flock of chickens for a needy family
(International Rescue Committee)
$29 gets a girl a school uniform (CARE) , for $300 you
can stock a fish pond (Heifer International)
$69 can start a female entrepreneur in the sewing
business (Mercy Corps)
$5 will buy a bed net that protects a family from
mosquitoes (Against Malaria)
20th century experiments demonstrated that electrical
charge is quantized; that is, it comes in
multiples of individual small units called the elementary
charge, e, approximately equal to 1.602
x 10-19 coulombs (except for particles called quarks
which have charges that are multiples of
1/3e) .
Why has the experimentalism of the avant-garde, which
has failed in the novel, succeeded in
poetry? Because poetry is always experimental; while
the novel, on the contrary, by its nature,
cannot be... which is to say that experimentalism is
synonymous with poetry, and that applied
to the novel, it leads simply to the substitution of the
novel with poetry. - Alberto Moravia
Man made the town, Fibonacci inflated zero to be the
wheel
around which the universe turns and language is the soul
walking and talking quietly or going angrily to war.
'Counting is in its very essence magical, if any human
practice is at all. For numbers are things no one has
ever seen or heard or touched.' As are words.
Joan Didion thought the scariest stanza in all of
poetry
begins Row, row, row your boat gently
down the stream. The elements, the material penumbra,
irresolvable for the mortal, readily dissolve in words and
numbers.
- with lines by Nicholas Kristof, Alberto Moravia and Roy Harris
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem