Geodesics

     Tetrahedron
      (Buckminster’s Building Block)

What I know as “possible” eclipses if not

occludes what actually is Possible and

so I invite Impossibility into the process,

almost as comfortable with the role of the

impossible as with the necessity of contra-

diction and of course the practicality of

paradox.

             

           Articulation Articulating

       

           (“to divide the beast at the

              joints with minimum

                 blood & gristle”)

I’ve been trying to drive a grand wedge

cleaving  liberal arts and the liberal art:

a dichotomy traditionally talked about

in terms of “instrumental” & “academic,”

“practical” & “theoretical,” the vocational

people & them connoisseurs considered

dilatation or eclectic by  professionals or

call them amateurs by work-program

& service-project Get R Done-ists: doing

it merely for the love of it.     Useless.

2 evils, of course & a pox on both houses:

they just don’t get along and  everyone

knows the PROS wield an  upper hand,

always so much to get done, so little time;

nevertheless the “amateurs” & fun-loving

academes whine & wiggle & would come up
from below to interrupt clean-up and bridge-
building & securing home lands& the more
neglected the more  subversive they become
and antic, hey! They’ll bring down the house
if possible but it's impossible.

Killing people by scraping their flesh from

their bones was an idea that lived. IN the fifth

century, Christians killed the wellborn lady

Hypatia, according to Gibbon, in a church: they

stripped her flesh with oyster shells and threw

the shellfuls of flesh, “quivering,” in a fire.

Her problem was Neo-Platonism, says writer

Hal Crowther: also she studied mathematics.

“After this,” comments Bertrand Russell,

“Alexandria was no longer troubled by

philosophers.”   (139)