SLSL Intro "My Undergraduate Mood"

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In a message dated 11/20/2002 12:39:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com writes:


> From Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings:
> Cybernetics and Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
> 1954 [1950]), Ch. II, "Progress and Entropy," pp.
> 28-47 ...
> 
>    "In a system which is not in equlibrium ... entropy
> need not increase.  It may, in fact, decrease locally.
> Perhaps this non-equilibrium of the world about us is
> merely a stage in a downhill course which will
> ultimately lead to equilibrium.  Sooner or later we
> shall die, and it is highly probable that the whole
> universe around us will die the heat death, in which
> the world shall be reduced to one vast temperature
> equilibrium in which nothing really new ever happens."
> (pp. 30-1)
> 
> "... it is quite conceivable that life belongs to a
> limited stretch of time ....
>    "In a very real sense we are shipwrecked passengers
> on a doomed planet.  Yet even in a shipwreck, human
> decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish
> ...." (p. 40)
> 


The final poem of "Final Harvest"- Little Brown, 1961

I had not minded -- Walls --
Were Universe -- one Rock --
And far I heard his silver Call
The other side the Block --

I'd tunnel -- till my Groove
Pushed sudden thro' to his --
Then my face take her Recompense --
The looking in his Eyes --

But 'tis a single Hair --
A filament -- a law --
A Cobweb -- wove in Adamant --
A Battlement -- of Straw --

A limit like the Veil
Unto the Lady's face --
But every Mesh -- a Citadel --
And Dragons -- in the Crease --
    
(E. Dickinson, c. 1862)


About those "Dragons-- in a Crease"

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993088


respectfully

    

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