Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:19:35 -0400
Subject: [ark] Euclid's axioms of geometry, in rhyme

In alt.religion.kibology, asw@TheWorld.com wrote:

maximum axiom
lines between two points:
the one shortest one is
the line that's called straight;

with any three points,
a planar geometry
takes them all in
on the very first date.


secondly reckoned
a point and a straight line:
only one line through
the point won't traverse

(this is forgetting
Riemann, Lobachevsky,
and other geometries
far more perverse).


planar, insaner
two parallel lines
in the very same plane
that procede on unchecked

Even when drawn out
indefinospatially
through recorded thought
they still won't intersect.


Finally, motions in
bodies mathematical
define each other
from points outward grown:

points create lines,
and lines sweep out surfaces,
surfaces, bodies
with minds of their own.

plorkwort.


-- 
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *that had to mean something*.
                -- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"