Marion Deutsche Cohen
Turquoise Green
dream, Sept. 'O8
A writer friend sends me a first draft of her next book, typed and bound, bound
but no cover like one of those old-style yard-sale 5 X 8 paperbacks. The trouble
is, it's on purple paper, black writing on purple paper. More trouble, I can't
remember the word for that shade of purple, it's a bright purple, too bright a
purple; if it were green it would be chartreuse, if it were blue it would be
turquoise. 'Way too bright a purple, 'way too purple a black.
Oodles of Googles
All of a sudden in the middle of the day I thought of the idea of Googling the.
How many the's would come up? I was curious. But I was afraid to, it might
break the computer and then the world, the way too much curvature can make
matter, the way too much thought can make disaster, so too much virtual space
can take up actual space, all of actual space, use it up, surely too many the's
could make an explosion.
But Jon said no, it would be ok, the won't come up, that's how Google is
designed. But it did come up and only in the thousands of trillions. And then
we tried if, tomorrow we'll try in and it and of and on. There's no end to the
little things we can try.
Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 18 books, including Crossing the Equal Sign (Plain
View Press, about the experience of mathematics), Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a
Well Spouse (Temple University Press), and the forthcoming Chronic Progressive (Plain View
Press). She teaches math at Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Other interests
are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, four grown children, and two
grandchildren.
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Turquoise Green
dream, Sept. 'O8
A writer friend sends me a first draft of her next book, typed and bound, bound
but no cover like one of those old-style yard-sale 5 X 8 paperbacks. The trouble
is, it's on purple paper, black writing on purple paper. More trouble, I can't
remember the word for that shade of purple, it's a bright purple, too bright a
purple; if it were green it would be chartreuse, if it were blue it would be
turquoise. 'Way too bright a purple, 'way too purple a black.
Oodles of Googles
All of a sudden in the middle of the day I thought of the idea of Googling the.
How many the's would come up? I was curious. But I was afraid to, it might
break the computer and then the world, the way too much curvature can make
matter, the way too much thought can make disaster, so too much virtual space
can take up actual space, all of actual space, use it up, surely too many the's
could make an explosion.
But Jon said no, it would be ok, the won't come up, that's how Google is
designed. But it did come up and only in the thousands of trillions. And then
we tried if, tomorrow we'll try in and it and of and on. There's no end to the
little things we can try.
Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 18 books, including Crossing the Equal Sign (Plain
View Press, about the experience of mathematics), Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a
Well Spouse (Temple University Press), and the forthcoming Chronic Progressive (Plain View
Press). She teaches math at Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Other interests
are classical piano, singing, Scrabble, thrift-shopping, four grown children, and two
grandchildren.
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