Now, given that I've been known since grade school as "the Romantic from Hell" [The best way to humiliate a grade school girl -or any girl, it seems- is to do the stuff they *think* they want in their daydreams] I'd hat tothink that I have given a mistaken impression of my range of interests. For example, I am not just a science geek. I'm a fan of romantic poetry - and for that matter, history. I mean, sure, I'm no Iolanthe, but who is?
So instead of trotting out that same old trite Perseif
Calculus sonnet [1] everyone uses as a warm up I'll bow to mary's request
and start with the softer side of our favorite Perseids, who likewise are
better known for their science and wit than their stormy, nay, tempestuous.
passions. The following was, as far as I know, the last poetic exchange
they had before Ourobouros. Apparently there had been something of a lover's
spat.
HÖHNE to RAKEEB, SONNET CCCXL (Shakespearean)
Shall I compare thee to Voltarium?
Thou art more heavy - and less stable too.
And dense! I won't say, darling, you are dumb,
But Dylan Hunt has babes that outthink you.
Pallid is our hermaphoditic sex
I might just feel in your arms more femme
If only you'd work out your delts and pecs
And be as butch as Kung Fu Wayist Bem
But thy eternal razor burn - it scrapes!-
Not soft and fluffy like that fair magog.
And if Master Harper ever wants a break
I swear I'll leave him panting like a dog.
But though I sometimes yearn for other blokes
I know that only you get all my jokes.
RAKEEB TO HÖHNE, SONNET CCCLI (Byronian)
You talk of beauty, of the skies,
Of quantum waves, and sensor scans
But sometimes I'd scratch out your eyes
And take take -er- 'things' in my own hands.
I know you told the Council lies,
And claimed you wrote the black hole plans.
And work out more? Perfect my grip?
Just hope you never need my strength!
For if you do, I'll let you slip
And chortle as you fall, at length!
And Harper will be mine, all mine,
And possibly that Rev Bem gent.
But oh your mind, your muscled brow,
That twinkle when you want to score some
If it would end our fight right now
I'll try the three- or maybe foursome
The question, Höhne, is "but how?"
What fulcrum could we use? What torsion?
I hope that puts things right between us, maryavatar.
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[1] You know the one: "Ode to a non-Hamiltonian Time-dependent
particle waveform equation," the one that begins: "Taking the product,
E times psi of (n), / Particle time-dependent waveform gives./ For h-bar
squared, divided by 2m, / Times second derivative of psi with/ Respect
to (n); summed with the product of / Potential and the psi wavefunctions
is,/ Identical, left and right, below, above,/ Forward or backward, even
timewise, with/ that same E psi (n). Hamiltonian / (Earth term) equations
say the same in Diff/.....