POETICKS

Click the thumbnail below to get to one of my recent mathemaku, elaborately gussied up.  I spent a ridiculous amount of time on it at Paint Shop.  “Mathemaku in Praise of Reading, No. 1″:

I don’t like it.  It seems trivial to me.  I hope that’s because I’m in the ol’ null zone again, but I don’t think so.

Later note (8 P.M. 19 January): I’m feeling a bit better, mainly because I’m finally listening to records again after being without a local classical music station or a functioning phonograph or the money to buy many CDs for several years until getting a phonograph with software allowing me to transfer my records to my computer and thence, if I want, to CDs.  Tannhauser.  Also, I had a glass of Mountain Dew and it may have given me a boost.  In any case, I sat down and did half of my next column for Small Press Review.

I also came up with a retort to Geof’s recent comment that if you think you’re speaking for the truth, the game is already lost: if you are not concerned with speaking for the truth, the game will be too easy to win to be worth playing.

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