In a book-discussion group in which I participate, we are reading some of the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and that reading has provoked me to dive again into my copy of his Selected Poems (Ed. Alexander Coleman, Penguin, 1999). Here is one of Borges' poems that uses terminology from mathematics:
The Cyclical Night by Jorge Luis Borges
tr. Alistair Reid (1926-2014)
to Sylvina Bullrich
They knew it, the fervent pupils of Pythagoras:
That stars and men revolve in a cycle,
That fateful atoms will bring back the vital
Gold Aphrodite, Thebans, and agoras.
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
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