Essay in "The Fortnightly Review"
 

Not sure it makes me accomplished, but it's 5,000 words on the parallels between Emily Dickinson and Isaac Newton. A few paragraphs may be enough for all but the most ardent of Dickinson's admirers.


https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2019...ton-dickinson/

I enjoyed it. Thanks. I'm not sure I ended up placing any special significance on the parallels between Dickinson and Newton that you note, but it was a fun device to regale us with interesting facts about each of them.

No, I don't think there's a special significance to the parallels either. However, it was fun to draw them out. Thanks for taking the time to read it.

Some interesting facts about them, and it reminded me of Twain's

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

Great observation by both you and Twain. Thanks, RC.

Properly understood, math is poetry. Despite its lack of a seasonal reference, I assert that the following maiku shows that:

π(414)
= 1300.+
some decimals. Hey!

"Math is poetry."
And though it isn't pi day,
n = pi. Hey!

Mine isn’t a serious effort at art, but if I substitute n for π, it becomes an interactive problem that might interest protonerds and annoy many other readers who come to be entertained. n resembles π quite a bit in English—and that’s good—in Greek though, n is one form of eta (η). I like both yours and mine.

I see what you were doing now--using the symbol for pi, which I mistook for n. But the end result is the same, a bit of fun with maikus for both advanced and protonerds. What is the Greek for geek?

I think “geek” might be too young for a settled usage, even in modern Greek. Others here can offer ancient or modern alternatives. “R” has looked like “P” except in the oldest inscriptions. There’ve been consonantal sound changes besides vowel changes since the classical period. One such is the need for a new “d”, since the old one became “th”. Now, “dee” is spelled with a pair of letters: “nt” that looks like ντ. Middle of word sigmas look like this: σ. Then, there’s the shift of many vowels to the sound of “ee”. So, here’s a try at a modern Greek spelling for “nerds”—note the lower case word-end form of the sigma: ΝΟΥΡΝΤΣ or νουρντς.

ΚΡΑΖΥ; ΣΟΡΤΑ. ΣΤΙΛΛ ΙΤΖ ΓΡΕΕΚ ΑΛΛ ΘΕ ΟΥΑΥ ΤΟΥΝΤΑΥ.