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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Santiago Gala wrote:

> If you find this poetic, you will no doubt enjoy the Cyberiad
> (Stanislaw Lem). An excellent book. I remember specially the story
> where a psychiatric for robots is described, with a hypochondriac robot
> carrying a cart with spares. (BTW, when I first saw Ken in ApacheCON
> Europe 2000 this was the very image that came to my mind) :-P

The poem about Love and Tensor Algebra was one of my favorites as a Math
grad student.

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Now *that* is poetry.

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/cyberiad.html

- -- 
Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As we trace our own few circles around the sun
We get it backwards and our seven years go by like one
        Dog Years (Rush - Test for Echo - 1999)
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