Poetry versus Science!

Poetry versus Science.

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Interesting piece about Paul Dirac on The Emerging Writer Blogsite~go see~ and his opinion of poets and their use of language "saying things everybody knows in words that nobody understands". As opposed to scientists who talk in italics!  Can't say I'm well up on Paul but he was one of the great scientists of the twentieth century, or any other century. However, it's raining outside and you have to write about something and the trouble with science is that it never adds up. There's always something missing! They promise you it will be found next week if you build a super hadron collider at the bottom of your garden and pay a  tax to the local authority, then back to the other side and their argument as to what you should save if given the choice, a great work of art or some newly discovered principle, the answer always being the work of art as the principle will surely be found by someone else in the future but the work of art being a once off is gone forever. Try that though if you were hungry! See if I can finish this by four O clock and go for a walk. Since it is more or less agreed that the act of observation alters everything in some sense or the other and the act or art of creation be it poetry or a piece of music or whatever simply adds to the mix, then it is impossible to know the outcome of anything unless you pass page three and go to the horoscopes but we won't go there. So simply get rid of poets they keep screwing everything up. Cancel Christmas as well. ~ Nature playing the role of some devil may care, Dressed up for some other non local affair...~ I wrote that! Poem!

Omniscience

Some triumph of the intellect

While grazing on his bone

Subtotalled all the arguments

On everything that's known

And following the wake

Of those well versed on such discourse

Was so convinced of certainty

He thought his thoughts

His own!

Frank Murphy.