Poetry: Dan Schneider
Every now and then we like to pay some attention to literature here at The Moderate Voice. Today, I would like to publish a sonnet written by Dan Schneider:
Pascal [in a box] rolled the dice one day,
then passed them to Fermat, who decided
not to play. He then palmed the pair of cubes
and started to say…. but decided no
way would be better. Newton, however,
shook with excitement, even as he shook
the dice, and rolled them half-way down the felt,
where Einstein played nothing in his brief smirk
(to Heisenberg surely some sort of scheme)
to knock von Neumann out of the saddle,
and into the game. But, damn! Then Tipler
proved them wrong, and showed Pascal had been right
to pass the dice, because Archimedes’ game
was fixed to the last breath of recorded time.
Copyright by Dan Schneider
9 Responses to “Poetry: Dan Schneider”
I can’t wait for the sucstitutions of current political figures and topics in the various roles.
For mydelf, I demur.
“Not only does God play dice, but He throws them where we cannot see them.”
Stephen Hawking
Thanks, Didn’t realize you’d posted it.
I prefer dominoes.
Great write, Dan, as always.
Okay, we have references to theories of probability, quantum mechanics, uncertainty, game theory, a side line to inclue the bomb, and on to immortality and infinity.
Is this about life, risk and death?
Where’s the answer page?
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page 42
Gray,
Someone ripped out p.42 from my book!
{red}DON’T PANIC!{/red}
Dan, a great sonnet as exeplemary of you, but I see a reading of it with some who’ll say who’s Pascal, or worse yet, Newton? like the apple didn’t fall off a tree.