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Thursday, March 4, 2004 |
I couldn't hardly put this triolet, a reworking of this sonnet, in the same post with Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler.
Mysterious Ways
Kenny just took and took from me till God
Said That's enough! and washed away my house.
I reckon it's because I spared the rod
Kenny just took and took from me till God
Had had enough of him and gave His nod
To the hurricane to stop the thieving louse.
Kenny just took and took from me till God
Said That's enough, and washed away my house.
5:22:27 PM 
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On the way home from work I heard this piece from NPR, on Owen Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read. Gingerich has tracked down about 250 copies of Copernicus's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, including those read and annotated by Galileo and Kepler. I am at a loss for words—but I learned from the interview that the bookworm is the larva of the death-watch beetle. There's a poem there, when I get over the awe.
5:10:34 PM
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2006 Michael Snider.
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