Myth and mathematics

Gildroy, Doreen, Myth and Mathematics , Antioch Review, 53:1 (1995: Winter) p.60 Gl Dany, D. 60 The Antioch Review vaas MYTH AND MATHEMATICS by Doreen Gildroy “The beginning of the knowledge of beings is in the beings that produce themselves.” Pythagoras 1. It was there before I came. He did not read it, yet proceeded on to additions and abstractions— his hand calculated over print and picture— devotedly, devastatingly, with a total lack of self-counting. An old man, not quite a plaid shirt, inquired if the newspaper was mine. It takes hours of doing nothing to get it done. 2. If a quota has 7 and 2 which cult are you? I rhyme most in my perversions. Walking around in a robe is a difficult thing. Earth + Water sometimes equals Cold + Dry. Before a man i can get home, they’ ve sold the house— it’s not only his imagination. Gods like wine— so as to be drunk, to pass through the words until the end— the gesture that moves back before going forward. The shortest distance is not always a straight line.

Gildroy, Doreen, Myth and Mathematics , Antioch Review, 53:1 (1995: Winter) p.60 Poetry 61 The mind, an archeological find, at intervals, filled with figures. ‘Pythagoras gave us a tetragon for a soul. Who knows what's gone on in there (and for all those body cells!). How we unlove ourselves, even in our shapes and sizes. Maybe my problem in life is mathematics: lack of practice? The soul rides older, in musical order, the first of the unities, 384. 4. An octave can be half or twice the vibrations. How large can the hand expand, then contract, over a dark mass? 5. If you think in myth, having towed this side of the modern... If you think in mathematics, a big bang of revelation... At the castle in the greenery lost— a child calls to the child. If we are not in a labyrinth— let’s get out.