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April 6: "Lyricry" and "Didacry" are the Grummanisms for today. Two kinds of poetry, the first pertaining to any poem that seems to a consensus of informed auditors fifty percent or more lyrical, or pure imagery; the second to any poem that seems to the consensus more than fifty percent didactic. I'm thinking of Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism." I don't know whether the distinction the two terms are intended to indicate is useful but, to me, there is a huge difference between poetry one goes to for its wisdom, and poetry one goes to for its beauty.
Also here for are the first two results of my effort to work at Paint Shop at least once a day: |
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It took me four days to get even moderately at ease with Paint Shop when I went there to make my latest mathemaku. That convinced me I have to keep up with it. So last night I put twenty minutes or so in on producing the pieces above. They're genuine mathemaku although pretty poor ones. The idea was to see what I could do with a fragment of a mathemaku. Then I unintentionally broke what I call the division shed. The break seemed a possible source of metaphor, so I left it in. Haven't thought of a way to use it yet, though. The bottom version is just a reworking of the colors, and the position of the quotient. I rather like the A, but little else.
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