Entry 343 — Working, But Going Nowhere
I’m still fooling with my “Mathemaku in Praise of Reading, No. 1.” Haven’t quite gotten it right. I also touched up one of the five mathemaku I did for Bill Di Michele’s blog–by putting quotations marks that I thought necessary around the dividend.
Meanwhile, annoyed with more irresponsible uses of the word, “poem,” specifically either employing it to mean too many things to make it any longer useful for intelligent communication, or characterizing it sometimes interestingly but always subjectively and excessively vaguely as when Frost calls it “what is lost in translation,” I produced the following coinage: “disfinition.” I haven’t worked up a good definition of this. For the time being, it is simply an antonym for “definition.”