<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bacchic geometry [Geometrie bahică]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fed with sweet milk and yogurt quite a lot<br>A Greek whose mind was brilliant and divine,<br>By looking at two dots at once he thought<br>The shortest of the roads was the straight line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This axiom, accepted as we see,<br>And which today all people can explain,<br>Was valid in the past and still will be,<br>But only for the horizontal plane. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if you want some knowledge to derive,<br>When think of horizontal planes you'll find,<br>That nature doesn't feel for them a drive<br>And so, they're just a whim of the Greek mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead of milk we drink “Madeira” wine<br>And all of us can easily observe<br>That on the sphere each carefully drawn line<br>Stays never straight, but turns into a curve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thinking at the straight of the dead Greek<br>Until an areopagus decides,<br>After debates and thoroughly critique, <br>In zigzag lines each goes where he resides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Al.+O.+Teodoreanu">Al. O. Teodoreanu</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<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=589854" data-title="Bacchic geometry [Geometrie bahică] de Al. O. Teodoreanu" data-description="Fed with sweet milk and yogurt quite a lot/A Greek whose mind was brilliant and divine,/By looking at two dots at once he thought/The shortest of the roads was the straight line./This axiom, accepted as we see,/And which today all people can expla..."></div> </div> </div>

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