Mastodawn

Poetry: Representations

Finally, a revelation! I was asking myself: Why do I often find ancient, terse, illustration-free textbooks easier to follow than their modern, friendly, playful, illustrated, multi-media-enhanced counterparts? Case in point (and I know that not everybody will agree): Paul Dirac's legendary Principles of Quantum Mechanics or the definitive course on theoretical physics, the volumes by Landau and Lifshitz. In modern lectures and articles such resources may be announced as "valuable but not […]

https://elkement.art/2026/06/11/poetry-representations/

elkement Sep 24, 2020

Poetry: Dynamical Variables and Observables

The lines of the following poem are phrases selected from consecutive pages of the second chapter of Paul Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition, Dynamical Variables and Observables. we may look upon the passagefor the triple product We therefore make the general rulein spite of this fundamental difference which conforms with our notationThe rule may easily be extended By repeating the processUsing this terminology, we can assert that Suppose we have a solutionTaking the […]

https://elkement.art/2020/09/24/poetry-dynamical-variables-and-observables/

elkement Sep 13, 2020

Poetry: The Principle of Superposition

The lines of the following poem are phrases selected from consecutive pages of the first chapter of Paul Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition (Revised), The Principle of Superposition. ~ one would be inclined to think There must certainly be some internal motion from general philosophical grounds we cannot expect to find any causal connexion observe what appears on the back side of the crystal all that can legitimately be asked somewhere in the region of space […]

https://elkement.art/2020/09/13/poetry-the-principle-of-superposition/

smorgasborg Jun 1

@10MARC
I'm the one who found the haikus in your amiga haiku video transcript.
This is my vibecoded tool for finding haiku in any text-
https://mastodon.social/@smorgasborg/116613593157844268

(youtube transcripts don't generally work well since they don't have punctuation.)

I used to teach basic programming on vic-20's for an after school program.

#haiku #FoundPoetry

smorgasborg May 21

a new discovery tool: Haiku Reveal

paste in any text, or give it a link to an RSS feed, and it surfaces the accidental 5-7-5's hiding in the prose. some writers' rhythms produce a lot of them.

cassettes are the worst
way to listen to music
ever invented

-found in the wild, on a tech blog

https://smorgasb.org/haiku-reveal/

#Haiku #FoundPoetry #SmallWeb