Thursday, August 29, 2024

A List Without Liszt For Obvious Reasons

________________________________________________________________________________________________


Franz Lizst is not included
on this hazy list

because the names you see are
Mathematicians not Musicians
 
appears but his name is unlisted
 
In the history of Numbers...
No other Mathematician
influenced me as much as 
Professor Dodgson
but not because
of what he did with chalk
on a blackboard
 
His boss at Oxford University
requested  Dodgson spend a lazy afternoon
on a canoe with (amongst others)
the Dean's daughter—Alice—
and out of thin air
Professor Dodgson 
created the story of 
 
But more than one canoe ride
was necessary to meet the satisfaction
of the very curious child
who was capable of getting
"curiouser and curiouser"
 
However, Dodgson did not want 
the world to know an Oxford "Don"
(on a canoe with the daughter of his boss)
was the story teller so Dodgson
created the name Lewis Carroll
 
***
 
© PAUL OLIVERIO
________________________________________________________________________________________________

No comments:

Post a Comment