Of Carrots and Donkeys

When as a child put in front of cartoons and fairy tales it was not uncommon to encounter the image of a donkey lured down a dirt road or a lane by a carrot dangling from a string tied to a stick held by the hand of the rider of the cart.

Mathematics and the Silence of Oblivion

an infinity of ones

and each one has a name

for it has been made a property

an infinity of ones

and each one has a voice

with which to speak infinity into being

and to rule all that infinity has made inevitable