Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 01:13:35 05/05/00
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On May 05, 2000 at 00:32:10, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>On May 04, 2000 at 20:56:29, Mark Ryan wrote:
>
>>>"Solutions to problems are easy to find:
>>>the problem's a great contribution.
>>>What is truly an art is to wring from your mind
>>>a problem to fit a solution."
>>
>>Piet Hein again?
>>Mark :)
>
>Yes, it is. Nothing like a grook to please a Moq. Out of curiosity, how did you
>know?
>
>Sincerely,
>Mogens
"Simply Assisting God"
by Piet Hein
"I am a humble artist, molding my earthly clod,
Adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God;
Not that my toil is needed, yet somehow I understand
My Maker has willed it that I too should have
unmolded clay in my hand."
That grook is recited from memory after over 20 years. A long time ago, my
insightful sister gave me a book of grooks. She knew that I would like them
even though I had never heard of Piet Hein. Here is another one from memory,
though I do not recall the title:
"My old clock used to tell the time,
And subdivide diurnity;
Now it's lost both hands and chime,
And only tells eternity."
( But I do not know what a Moq is. )
Cheers,
Mark
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