(12+144+20+3*(4)^1/2)/7 +5*11 = 9^2 + 0
That is:
A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Equals nine squared and not a bit more
-John Saxon
thedoglippedone wrote:Some maths dude, posting on a forum I do not understand, wrote:(12+144+20+3*(4)^1/2)/7 +5*11 = 9^2 + 0
That is:
A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Equals nine squared and not a bit more
-John Saxon
So there you go.
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RaulMonkey wrote:E.E. Cummings was fucking insane.
Of course I mean that in a very good way. I love that crazy bastard.
RaulMonkey wrote:Needless to say, "Grande Rojo" is H.arry in the above. I didn't want to change it to "H.arry" because that'd be something that Cummings might've actually done and I don't want to be misrepresentin'.
Pacino86845 wrote:Wow, I totally love this thread. I'm poetry-retarded, so it's nice to see some obscure and experimental pieces here that I'd have no other way of discovering, except haphazardly. Keep it up!
Pacino86845 wrote:RaulMonkey wrote:Needless to say, "Grande Rojo" is H.arry in the above. I didn't want to change it to "H.arry" because that'd be something that Cummings might've actually done and I don't want to be misrepresentin'.Look again, matey.
Wow, I totally love this thread. I'm poetry-retarded, so it's nice to see some obscure and experimental pieces here that I'd have no other way of discovering, except haphazardly. Keep it up!
Cabiria wrote:RaulMonkey wrote:E.E. Cummings was fucking insane.
Of course I mean that in a very good way. I love that crazy bastard.
That he was. One of my very favorites. Thanks for the second one- I wasn't familiar with that piece.
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RaulMonkey wrote:Cabiria wrote:RaulMonkey wrote:E.E. Cummings was fucking insane.
Of course I mean that in a very good way. I love that crazy bastard.
That he was. One of my very favorites. Thanks for the second one- I wasn't familiar with that piece.
It bugs me that textbooks tend to show us only the safe, school-friendly side of the great poets. History ends up seeming completely sanitary and distant; and then how are we supposed to learn anything about our own time?
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