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- 4 Poems /caught in the act of being female
- 6 Poems /a short letter to an old love
- 2 Poems /wild man of letters
- 3 Poems /consequences; knife
- 6 Poems /falls from grace; how to let go
Coney Island Parachute Jump, and Here is New York, by E.B. White (1949): “There are roughly three New Yorks.
There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable.
Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.
Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.”
Airplane vortex. Turbulence in the tip vortex from an airplane wing. Studies of the critical point beyond which a system creates turbulence was important for Chaos theory, analyzed for example by the Soviet physicist Lev Landau who developed the Landau-Hopf theory of turbulence. David Ruelle and Floris Takens later predicted, against Landau, that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a main concept of chaos theory. (chaos /limit /design dynamic systems /models)
♫ Reality is a Dish Best Served Wet »
…direct from the madman himself: Welcome to the soundtrack of your New Year : ”No uncouth chaos here my good fellows and prancing madams, we are dealing solely in the deeply preposterous. Steve Neon, Discovery, George Lenton, Mount Sims, and Robot Koch all keeping their lamps in one submarine (if you’re picking up what I’m putting down).”
Peace Like A River. Bret Batchelder, commander, Carrier Air Wing 11, render salutes during a burial at sea on the flight deck of Nimitz while underway off the coast of California.
The Fold, Cusp, Swallowtail, & Butterfly
Catastrophe theory. In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry.
Bifurcation theory studies and classifies phenomena characterized by sudden shifts in behavior arising from small changes in circumstances, analysing how the qualitative nature of equation solutions depends on the parameters that appear in the equation. This may lead to sudden and dramatic changes, for example the unpredictable timing and magnitude of a landslide. (/design dynamic systems)
Cessna, 182 model, wingtip vortex. The flow field around an airplane is a vector field in R3, here visualized by bubbles that follow the streamlines showing a wingtip vortex.
First in flight. Wilbur Wright pilots the 1902 glider over the Kill Devil Hills, October 10, 1902. The single rear rudder is steerable; it replaced the original fixed double rudder.
