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To: N who wrote (3308)	3/18/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

Lives Derek Mahon First time out I was torc of gold And wept tears of the sun. That was fun But they buried me In the earth two thousand years Til a labourer Turned me up with a pick In eighteen fifty-four And sold me For tea and sugar In Newmarket-on-Fergus. Once I was an oar But stuck in the shore To mark the place of a grave When the lost ship Sailed away. I thought Of Ithica, but soon decayed. The time that I liked Best was when I was a bump of clay In a Navaho rug, Put there to mitigate The too godlike Perfection of that Merely human artifact. I served my maker well-- He lived long To be struck down in Tucson by an electric shock The night the lights Went out in Europe Never to shine again. So many lives, So many things to remember! I was a stone in Tibet, A tongue of bark At the heart of Africa Growing darker and darker..... It all seems A little unreal now, Now that I am an anthropologist With my own Credit card, dictaphone, Army surplus boots And a whole boatload of photographic equipment. I knew too much To be anything any more; And if in the distant Future someone Thinks he has once been me As I am today, Let him revise His insolent ontology Or teach himself to pray. ---===--- The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder Ralph Sockman A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year Marty Allen

To: N who wrote (3308)	3/18/1999 2:54:00 AM
From: N	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

PI The admirable number pi: three point one four one. All the following digits are also initial. five nine two because it never ends. It can't be comprehended six five three five at a glance, eight nine by calculation, seven nine or imagination. not even three two three eight by wit, that is, by comparison four six to anything else two six four three in the world. The longest snake on earth calls it quits at about forty feet. Likewise, snakes of myth and legend, though they may hold out a bit longer. The pageant of digits comprising the number pi doesn't stop at the page's edge. It goes on across the table, through the air, over a wall, a leaf, a bird's nest, clouds, straight into the sky, through all the bottomless, bloated heavens. Oh how brief -- a mouse tail, a pigtail -- is the tail of a comet! How feeble the star's ray, bent by pumping up against space! While here we have two three fifteen three hundred nineteen my phone number your shirt size the year nineteen hundred and seventy three the sixth floor the number of inhabitants sixty five cents hip measurement two fingers a charade, a code, in which we find hail to thee blythe spirit, bird thou never wert alongside ladies and gentlemen, no cause for alarm, as well as heaven and earth shall pass away, but not the number pi, oh no, nothing doing. it keeps right on with its rather remarkable five, its uncommonly fine eight its far from final seven, nudging, always nudging a sluggish eternity to continue. Szymborska, enough Szymborska... [an anthropologist with a credit card...buying yesterday <ggg>]