During these days of classifying people and points of view, my thoughts turn again and again to Venn Diagrams and I am then reminded of a thoughtful poem about math in grade-school days (by Pennsylvania poet and professor Marjorie Maddox) that I first read long ago -- and I offer it here:
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Venn Diagrams
by Marjorie Maddox
There, stuck in that class,
chalking circles on a board
so high your toes ached,
an inch of sock exposed,
all for the sake of subsets,
intersection.
That teacher with the tie too bright for day,
wide as your fingers spread