Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Poetry

  • The Purpose of Poetry

    Poetry is not conceptual thought … poetry, even if it’s about big issues, is always about a particular case. And so, a poet uses words…

  • A Tall Ship

    I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a…

  • Devouring Time

    Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws,…

  • Not Man the Less, but Nature More

    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep…

  • A Microscopic Topic

    I am a paramecium That cannot do a simple sum And it’s a rather well known fact I’m quite unable to subtract If I’d an…

  • Central Limit Theorem

    Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long And error slight; But…