Sean Howard

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SHADOW GRAPH 129: THE BEHAVIOR OF THE DEEP

(poetry detected in jerome friedman’s  nobel physics lecture, 1990)

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pranks, parties, prizes – ‘the behavior of the deep.’ (‘vast numbers’: jerome a factor

in the equation?) religion, science, ‘the dependence remaining unchanged.’ (waiting

on godot…) ghetto – ‘the world on the same page.’ pedagogy? tried & tested, make

work programme. (trip – the light elastic…) atom; melting pot. (pure moth.) angler-

saxons. poetry, differential elations. (braille teaching the sighted to feel!) ‘new waves’:

reggae in vienna… ‘emerging’ – models from the deep? after the operation, a choice of

new features… the bear shitting the woods. men spinning their grave. (at least until…;

‘the incredibly strong final states.’) nuclear waste: 1968, ‘all summer in the lab.’ c bree-

ze in the interior. the stilts in the cell. (war, different camps?) school & state, the wooden

rulers. physics; ripping yarns… (‘momentum as a function of plot.’) bullshit in the lab-

yrinth. (message parlors.) the public’s crucial/frame of deference. scaling the majestic

data-ranges… (‘back down?’ our ascent now complete/all that’s left is the peak!) square

wasps. quantum kabbalah: smearing god’s name... jung on dreams, ‘the sea has been

strangely neglected.’ (landlubber, the thinking man’s self!) ‘final product’ – glue from

horses… (science; art history?) ‘liberated’ – figures, emerging from the picture…