Friday, January 18, 2013

Obscurantist Found Poem?

My friend stared at the whiteboard, clearly perplexed.

"That's the theorem Andrew's been working on for the past few weeks," I explained. "It has to do with the Gergonne point."

"Oh, I hadn't looked at the math yet. I was trying to figure out the poem."

I wasn't sure what she was talking about, so I came around to have a look. And sure enough, there were some very esoteric lines scrawled to the left of the geometric figures.

One
orange, "Let's...
out
climbed
so
little
when




It was a list of spelling and punctuation corrections from one of the twins' creative writing assignments.

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