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Origin of mathematics: Be of those who descend into earth, Puissant Baal complies. He desires a cow-calf in Dubr, A heifer in Shihlmemat-field \ Lies with her times seventy-seven, (20 lines missing) [ ... ] ... times eighty-eight. She [conc]eives and gives birth to Math. This is an excerpt from "Poems About Baal and Anat." These poems were recorded on clay tablets that were discovered (accidentally by a farmer plowing his fields in 1928) in the ruins of the Canaanite city state of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra) on the north coast of Syria. The translation is from Pritchard, James B., Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Princeton, 1969
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The Talented Man Of Science and logic he chatters As fine and fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man. -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (English writer,1802-1839)
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From: "Marco Mahler" <marco#NoSpam.marcomahler.com>
These are song lyrics
The music's at http://www.marcomahler.com
From "Fields"
there's so much beauty in science that alliances
collapse and perhaps
cease to be abstract
and become one with my wife
alive i dive into solitude again and there's no end
cause without infinity nothing exists
so i persist
the senses perception is past conception will last
the vast ignorance, delivers the difference
between reflecting gases in front of dark space and the sky
"1's and O's"
subliminal nation
Looking for gravitation
so now i've quit eating light bulbs and snacks
i've had it with those slacks
like an astronaut on a sailing boat, or eating bagels with tom joad
human cowbells, in biological computer cells
Raindrops on your head while your swimming
and me grinning by the piers with the deers
you know, she's just so right on, she comes on so strong
i wanna hide in a goosebump
ride around on a sneaker stump
breath through borrowed lungs
eat fresh humdrums
green with an elephant
challenged like an infant
infiltrated while integrated
usually developing limbs at some distance from the ground
I hear simple speed and that feeds all needs
while
one 72nd of all gray matters, that matters, are flattered
and dive
one dimensional things out of chronology
american folk music anthology
childlike elevation, waiting for salvation
a self made active brilliance, for millions, like ants chasing ants,
like cows with hay fever, and maniac weavers
the fruits of the roots
to become the roots of the fruits
the ankle high culture is coming through the woods
coming on in loops
press control g for go
communication can be broken down into ones and o’s
"Focused Hokuspokus"
focused hokuspokus
singing like a locust
outdated concepts
accept precepts
single celled organism
immortality and mechanism
creative speed
and the need to feed
the reaction to the reaction to the reaction
when it's just a fraction
it seems nuts
but we peel 'em down to their guts
tactility and sound
the moon comes up and the sun goes down
think tank
think blank
nip nap
nap time
strawberries like to travel
in the wintertime
two oars and me
lame horse and a tree
multitasking
if someone should be asking
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
shovel out the night
or just turn on the light
it comes as it comes
with laces and crumbs
what a mind of frame
in a game of time
ding ding
your left foot is ringing
rhythmic coffee hand shaking
faking the raycon sly
man looking to the left
watching for his theft
best viewed in slow motion
with plenty of brain lotion
and it’s go go go
To the banks of the river below
could I have three feet of milk
two pounds of sleep
four elbows to rub
and an omnipotential butter cup
money in a tree trunk
funny with our ski monks
chunks full of bedrocks
uncooked and jam locks
money in the sky
eye sight high
so fast we got a coughing night light
when the fun starts
that's when a time comes
man you wanna trade jobs
engineering
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From: NANCY_GILL#NoSpam.bdt.COM (Nancy Gill)
The Condemned
When the earth was created, the powers above,
Gave each man a job to work at and love.
He made doctors and lawyers and plumbers and then,
He made carpenters, singers, and confidence men.
And when each had a job to work as he should,
He looked them all over and saw it was good.
He then sat down to rest for a day,
When a horrible groan chanced to come his way.
The Lord then looked down and his eyes opened wide,
For a motley collection of bums stood outside.
"And what do you want?" the creator asked them,
"Help us," they cried out, "A job for us men".
"We have no profession," they cried in dismay,
"And even the jails have turned us away".
Said the Lord, "I've seen many things without worth,
But here I find gathered the scum of the earth!"
The Lord was perplexed, and then he was mad,
For the jobs were all gone, there was none to be had.
Then he spoke aloud in a deep angry tone,
"Forever and ever ye mongrels shall roam,
Ye shall freeze in the summer and sweat when it's cold,
Ye shall work on equipment that's dirty and old,
Ye shall crawl under raised floors, and there cables lay,
Ye shall be called out at midnight and work through the day,
Ye shall work on all holidays, and not make your worth,
Ye shall be blamed for all downtime that occurs on the earth,
Ye shall watch all the glory go to software and sales,
Ye shall be blamed by them both if the system then fails.
Ye shall be paid nothing out of sorrow and tears,
Ye shall be forever cursed, and called FIELD ENGINEERS!"
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From: clulow#NoSpam.ix.netcom.com (John Clulow) Plot the product of xy equals 3, 4, or 5 on a sphere of immeasurable size. Then through mental transportation find the point of destination, independent of real space and time. A single path is found to go the sphere around; to where East meets West and where north-'n-south's a jest, and where positive and negative unite.
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