Couldn't resist the temptation to translate poetry... here's mine (sorry this is utterly off-topic):
The poet, like a prince of clouds, storm-jockey, sneers at heaven's slings. Earth-exiled amid the jeering crowds, Stumbles over giant's wings At 08:03 AM 8/26/99 -0400, Cordasco, Anthony (NJ Data Services) wrote: >You wrote: >why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see >what is on >earth?' >Aesop's Fables > >Baudelaire was writing about a poet (and an Albatross) but I think it could >easily have been an astronomer; or a dialist. > >Le Poete est semblable au prince des nuees >Qui hante la tempete et se rit de l'archer; >Exile sur le sol au milieu des huees, >Ses ailes de geant l'empechent de marcher. > >The Poet is like that wild inheritor of the cloud, >A rider of storms, above the range of arrows and slings; >Exiled on earth, at bay amid the jeering crowd, >He cannot walk for his unmanageble wings. > >Regards, >Anthony > >-----Original Message----- >From: Pace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:48 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Laser Trigon > > >Hello sundial friends > >Some time ago I read on some website about a Laser Trigon - which was a >laser fitted onto an equatorial axis which I believe simulated the sun and >could be used for the projection of the sun rays on any surface. > >However I have no idea where I saw this and would be grateful if someone >knowledgeable about this Laser trigon would give further information about >this instrument. > >Thanks all! >Alexei Pace > >--------------------------------------------- >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >fax: +1 (603) 853-2666 > >The Astronomer > >AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One >evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole >attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep >well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and >cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning >what had happened said: "Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to >pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on >earth?' >Aesop's Fables
