Children's book in German translated into English. Simple but carries deep meaning. https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Button-Luke-Engine-Driver/dp/0879513918
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Monday, January 11, 2021
Chinese Lit Links
Aino Kishi đ reading east Asian literature. Why shouldn't you?
The Serious Links:
More technical:
Just for fluff aka light novels:
Poetry Links
More poetry is always good for you.
Burning the Old Year
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
Links to other poetry:
Monday, July 13, 2020
Math Poetry
One day, I'll add some of my own math poetry here. For now, take a look at a few that others have written.
Outlier
by Sabrina Little, Mackintosh Academy, Boulder
The slick pen glides across paper
precisely scraping the ruler’s edge
marking a line beside many lonesome dots
a line of best fit as snug as a sweater.
The slope is a mere fraction, but the line it fabricated would stretch on,
encompassing an infinite amount of graph paper.
As the line traveled, it would pass by many data points
and the wispy voices of the outliers would be heard on the wind
calling to the line from worlds away, asking it to contort
to come and gather the lonely dots, and hold them shaking in its tepid arms
but the line never does.
Instead, it continues on without a sideways glance
forever the same slope
forever the same straight line.
The Number Won
by Austen Mazenko, Cherry Creek High School
Hatred of numbers, a cardinal sin,
Merely encumbers, hides beauty within
Mathematics. In abelian groups, numbers commute,
Their supremacy and distance from zero absolute.
So hear me out, for I’m the mathematical exhorter,
Urging pattern discovery amidst chaos and order.
From noise find the signal, elucidate nice behavior.
Discover zeta’s zeroes, be number theory’s savior.
Appreciate numbers’ divine perpetuity,
Perceiving their secrets with mathy acuity.
In logic, truth, and in algebra, Lie,
In numbers, gold, the irrational phi.
Six is perfect, pi transcendental,
The monstrous moonshine of McKay monumental.
In our physical world, such numbers abound,
Bastions of constancy making reasoning sound.
Since math fields possess unity and division,
It’s the numeral lens that ensures us precision.
x squared + y squared = 1 (if e)
by Chenyu Lin, Colorado Christian University
Ceaseless are the points
Its path does not terminate
Round and round it goes, from the
Central point everything else flows.
Lo and behold, is it a circle? Or more
Enigmatic – like the paths of life? Perhaps both.
References
Saturday, May 2, 2020
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Rain Night (translation)
Watching a sky that’s no longer azure
Covered by the pitch black cloud shadows
Looking at the dense raindrops
Joyous thoughts are also covered
Warm spring light leaves further and further away
Who knew spring can also be bitterly cold?
Who knew a rainy night can also hold sadness
Monday, December 23, 2019
Literature: 2019 Business Books
Transitions: Making Sense Of Life's Changes
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZY23TS?ref=dbs_p2d_P_R_popup_yes_pony_T1Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
https://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416626167&sr=1-1&keywords=give+%26+take+by+adam+grantFor generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.
Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Winning-Streaks-Losing-Begin/dp/1400052912Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?
There’s a fundamental principle at work–confidence–that makes the difference between winning and losing in any competition, be it a high school basketball game or a high-stakes business situation. In Confidence, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter shows why organizations of all types may be brimming with talent but not be winners. Based on her extraordinary investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines and Verizon and sports teams such as the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the arenas of education, health care, and politics, Kanter explores a new theory and practice of success and provides people in leadership positions with a prescriptive program for maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.
Packed with brilliant, practical ideas, Confidence provides fresh thinking about success in all facets of life—from the factors that can make or break corporations and governments to the keys for successful relationships in the workplace or at home.
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Literature: Retribution of Tears
Retribution of Tears
First
Published: 25 MAY 2011 / Last Edited: 12 DEC 2019
Her
soulful violet eyes blurred with tears as she stood on the edge of the seawall and
gazed outwards at the turbulent waves below. Cupped in her two small hands were
the broken jagged shards of a crystal ball. In the next second, with her mind already
set, she knew that everything would change. She imagined herself plunging into
the dark turquoise sea below her, forever erasing all traces of the broken
shards of her and her memories. Yet, even in what she thought would be most
likely the last moments of her life, she secretly longed for someone to save
her.
As
swift as a silent arrow, a memory flashed by in her mind of her inhumanity a moment
ago. She hesitantly shifted her gaze from the waves to the shards in her hand
one last time. Scarcely several dozen heartbeats ago, these shards piercing
into her soft flesh didn’t exist. Her former lover was alive and well. He
looked too well, she had thought. At
this very spot, she had accused him of betraying her trust.
He
had mocked her and said that she deserved it for believing him. He said that he
has slept with other women all during the relationship. His barbed words jabbed
relentlessly into her fragile heart and he did not appear to care. She realized
that he had thought she was the type of girl who lacked a sense of self-worth
who could be easily deceived into falling “in love” with a charming guy. In
truth, she feared being in love with anyone since she feared what would happen.
She
had fallen into his trap of lies so easily and revealed to him everything about
her. She thought that opening her heart would lead to a buildup of further
trust but it had the opposite effect. Before she opened up, anyone could see that
between the two of them, she had more potential – writing incessantly and publishing
her works in well-known journals. On his side, since he quit school, he has worked
at a coffee shop as a barista for the last year and didn’t have the faintest
inkling of where he was going in life. He seemed fine with his situation and
she wasn’t going to push him to change.
After
she revealed her secret to him though, he started to distance himself from her.
He didn’t reveal his heart and she could only guess that perhaps he thought she
was delusional and insane. She had told him to never make her cry since looking
at her eyes when she was crying could transform him into glass. He had laughed
at it and became quiet when she kept insisting that it was true. She thought that
meant he believed her but now she knew that wasn’t the case.
His
schedule suddenly seemed busier. They saw each other infrequently and he cancelled
on several dates. The final straw was seeing him kiss a girl in front of his apartment.
This was the unlucky encounter from trying to surprise him with a visit. The two
didn’t noticed her and she had hurriedly departed before they saw her. Later,
she called him to ask him who that girl was.
That
was a week ago though it felt like a lifetime. They had agreed to meet at this spot
today. A year ago this was the place of their first date. She came thinking
that he wanted to meet her here to apologize and ask for her forgiveness. Instead,
he came to mock her openly. She had tried to not cry but the tears still pooled
out. Once they did, she couldn’t stop herself and could only watch helplessly
as his body turned into glass. Her retribution of tears was swift and deadly. He
could barely shout before he was completely gone. The shore wind was strong and
blew his glass form over the seawall where it shattered against the rocks below.
The only remnant was his eyes that flew like tiny pearls from his head to land
miraculously in her open hands.
She
steadied herself for an end to this life. He was a cheater but she was a
killer. Now seemed like the perfect poetic end. She took out a mirror and gazed
at her reflection held within, the last visages in her vision herself at her
worst. There was barely a moment of regret before she toppled over, the second
glass statue to fall into the waves that day.
Friday, December 6, 2019
Literature: Books on Utopia
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| Utopia? |
This Perfect Day
https://www.amazon.com/This-Perfect-Day-Ira-Levin/dp/160598129X
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139390.This_Perfect_Day
Considered one of the great dystopian novels―alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World―Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.
The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will―men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.
With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin`s most haunting novels.
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