Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 4.

The clock and the corn-mill
(The water-mill, that is,)
The clock, the idea of applying automatic device
(Moved by springs) to production.
The mill the essential organism of a machine:
The mechanical driving power; the transmitting
mechanism; the working machine,
Which deals with the material. Each
With an existence independent of the others.
The mathematicians, so far as they occupied themselves
With practical mechanics and its theoretical side,
Started form the simple corn-grinding water-mill.

(Louis Zukofsky, A acht)

No thought exists
Completly abstracted from action,
Without the solids of bodies
There is no geometry,
Who acknowledge space – moving
Know as many dimensions
as they have muscles

(Louis Zukofsky, A 12)

The young Fibonacci learned the “nine figures of the numbers used by the Hindus.”

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“Whether it was `impossible for matter to think?`

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music

?

speech

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(Louis Zukofsky, A 12)

Asked Albert who introduced relativity
“And what is the formula for success?”
“X=work, y=play, Z=keep your mouth shut.”

(Louis Zukofsky, A 6)

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