Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 02:04:17 05/05/00
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On May 05, 2000 at 04:40:54, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On May 05, 2000 at 04:13:35, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>"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." > >I'm glad that Piet Hein is known somewhere else than in Denmark. I'll try to see >if I can find the one you mention as unknown. If I find the time that is. > >"Does time exist? I gravely doubt it. >But gosh, what would we do without it?" > >>( But I do not know what a Moq is. ) > >Moq is just my nickname and since it rhymed... :o) > >Regards, >Mogens Three quick questions: 1. Did Piet Hein, by any chance, write any computer chess programs? (This is my desperate attempt to keep this almost on-topic.) 2. The poem might simply be titled My Old Clock, or My Old Watch. I can't recall; so much (non-existent) time has passed since I read it. 3. Does "grook" rhyme with the English word "book", or "smoke", or something else? Cheers, Mark
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