'Entropy' ...Another: Year of the Rooster

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Sat Feb 8 19:23:40 CST 2003


I957 was a happening time. Einstein was dead by '55, Hungary
was crushed by the Soviets in '56. The UN, under the courageous
Dag H., would find the will to assemble the United Nations
Emergency Force (UNEF) and deploy along the Egyptian/
Israeli armistice line, post-Suez crisis, allowing the Brits and
French troops to withdraw. This action set the precedent for
UN peacekeeping. Dag would go on to further irritate U.S.
interests (especially Dulles) by attempting to actually keep
fledgling African nations from being raped by the usual suspects.

Later in the year, the Soviets would shock Ike and co., by launching
Sputnik, and, _On The Road _ hit the book stores. It was an interesting
year.

Likewise, February is a unique month. Lupercalia nee' St. Valentine's 
Day situated about mid-stream, celebrates secret connections. It is
the most lunar month in the otherwise masculinized Gregorian
calendar, and its etymological root signifies expiation- perhaps for
the overthrow of the goddess, in favor of Apollo nee'.... well, 
whatever assemblage you might prefer- the A4, Yahweh- pisser of
oceans, whatever. Given the current story, anything vertical
with a need to return home- if not a hardened silo in Kansas, then,
at least to tonic. 

But the narrator warns that this is a churlish month in D.C.,
a false harbinger, suggestive but not quite shimmering into the
harmonies of Spring, a sequence of rapid changes, unrelated by
memory, a fugue.

John von Neumann, inventor of game theory, cellular automata
and random access memory died on February 8, 1957.

Happy Deathday, John, on this cold day. What's that?
Something stashed in thy Boot-Strap? Well then, many
happy returns.

respectfully
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       If thou art privy to thy country's fate
       Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
       O, speak!

Act I. scene I. Elsinore.
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