Re: Pieta Hein??????
David L. Webb
"Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendor...@comcast.net>
(aneuendor...@comicass.nut) wrote:
[Lunatic logorrhea snipped]
> <<Piet Hein (1905-1996): a Danish poet and scientist with wide ranging
> interests. Millions of his countrymen knew him as Kumbel, the pen name
> he used for his poetry. He was a genius with many different sides. In
> addition to discovering the Soma cube, Hein created a new geometrical
> form, the "super-ellipse", which is something in between the
> rectangle and the ellipse. The form came in a 3D version called
> "the super egg" or "the super-ellipsoide". Piet Hein contributed
> to make "Scandinavian design" become an international conception.
>
> http://www.powerweb.net/playandlive/piethein.htm
> http://www.ctaz.com/~dmn1/hein.htm
>
> Below is a sampling of Piet Hein's "Grooks", as
> his poems were known. He wrote in several languages.
[...]
> THE ROAD TO WISDOM
> The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain
> and simple to express:
> Err
> and err
> and err again
Then you must be the wisest person on the planet, Art!
[...]
> A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP
> Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
> and you're hampered by not having any,
This one seems to be addressed to you, Art!
[...]
Art Neuendorffer
> > <<Piet Hein (1905-1996): a Danish poet and scientist with wide ranging
> > interests. Millions of his countrymen knew him as Kumbel, the pen name
> > he used for his poetry. He was a genius with many different sides. In
> > addition to discovering the Soma cube, Hein created a new geometrical
> > form, the "super-ellipse", which is something in between the
> > rectangle and the ellipse. The form came in a 3D version called
> > "the super egg" or "the super-ellipsoide". Piet Hein contributed
> > to make "Scandinavian design" become an international conception.
> >
> > http://www.powerweb.net/playandlive/piethein.htm
> > http://www.ctaz.com/~dmn1/hein.htm
> >
> > Below is a sampling of Piet Hein's "Grooks", as
> > his poems were known. He wrote in several languages.
> > THE ROAD TO WISDOM
> > The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain
> > and simple to express:
> > Err
> > and err
> > and err again
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> Then you must be the wisest person on the planet, Art!
Err, thanks, Dave, I think.
> > A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP
> > Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
> > and you're hampered by not having any,
"David L. Webb" <david....@dartmouth.edu> wrote
> This one seems to be addressed to you, Art!
No mind.
Art