Photographed by Rygel, M.C. ~ Delaware
More examples by David Marvin ~ Michigan
A Lecture On The Circle
You draw a circle in the sand
and then halve the circle
with the same hazelnut stick.
Next you fall to your knees,
then to all fours.
Then you hit the sand with your forehead
and apologize to the circle.
That's all.
by Nichita Stanescu (1933 - 83)
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Archimedes was drawing circles when his city of Syracuse was attacked by Roman soldiers, and an uneducated idiot soldier ordered him to stop. Archimedes was too deeply involved into solving his problem and just said: "Do not disturb my circles". and the stupid Roman killed him. there is a poem by a Ukrainian poetess Oksana Zabuzhko where she reapplies the famous phrase to herself: " I say it in Greek: me mu tos kiklos tarate - I say to men, to empires, to time - do not disturb my circles"
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