<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338222" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>P.s.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:The statistician and the poet need each other,<br>But not yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S:You need us now.<br>Without a theory of probability<br>To guide you -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:Not the unguided but the unguarded moments<br>Are the most beautiful</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S:Poetry is measure and measure now is population<br>All signs signify groupings: we count people.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:There are nonmeasurable groupings that defy<br>Time and space and run wild as numbers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S:We call that Brownian motion, stochastic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:Stochastic rain, stochastic snow, the populace,<br>The monkeys who sleep in different groups each night<br>Unpredictable in the rain forest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S:I seem to remember that image from the work of Cohen,<br>A statistician of monkey sleeping groups</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:This is the rain forest and it has no scientists<br>Only invaders, stripminers, depopulaters<br>The clever critic made a joke about the word<br>Depopulater and the sophomores laughed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S:What you need isn't the apocalypse but the apocalyx<br>Taking off the green shield of the flower<br>In whose middle you'll find the new peopling</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:Number may be the sine qua non of lyric<br>But without number lyric is still lyric<br>Without number or the space or time it yields it is still lyric<br>But strip statistics of number and there is nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S:There is collective rhythm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">P:The next dance then?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aaron+Fogel">Aaron Fogel</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338222" data-title="P.s. de Aaron Fogel" data-description="P:The statistician and the poet need each other, But not yet. S:You need us now. Without a theory of probability To guide you - P:Not the unguided but the unguarded moments Are the most beautiful S:Poetry is measure and measure now is populatio..."></div> </div> </div>

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