Wednesday, February 16, 2005

West and East....

Last night Sandra had me trying to explain vectors to her. It was not that easy to describe to her that a vector has magnitude and a direction. At one point I asked if she knows the difference between West and East.

"Of course," she replied.
"West is capitalist and East is communist..."

ummmmm.
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.. It's in words that the magic is -- Abracadabra, Open Sesame, and the rest -- but the magic words in one story aren't magical in the next. The real magic is to understand which words work, and when, and for what; the trick is to learn the trick. ... And those words are made from the letters of our alphabet: a couple-dozen squiggles we can draw with the pen. This is the key! And the treasure, too, if we can only get our hands on it! It's as if - as if the key to the treasure is the treasure! ------- John Barth, Chimera