You have heard how Socrates died

MATHEMATICOS

because there are two sources

and three conversations

:

Alexander, when they meet Dinostratus,

query: is there a shortcut to

geometrical knowledge: this one said:

there is only one path for everything

:

and Ptolemy, in Alexandria, when he was looking for a shortcut

to mathematics: oh, there are no imperial roads: he said

Euclid: this path is difficult

:

and the lyricist Simonides from Syracuse, when they meet

Pindar, met him at the court: and asked: does he exist

a shortcut to poetry?

:

huh,

there is not even a path:

no one goes to poetry, no one leaves it,

if you're not there already, don't go there.

WHAT THE BUILDINGS, HOUSES, STABLES AND HALLS WOULD LOOK LIKE,

what would the world look like without me?

that's what the nail asked itself: and said: I am

outlived the Roman Empire, and I am older than him

:

and I'm the younger brother of Ekser,

says the twister:

after the nail, I was invented by Archimedes.

(20.11.2023.)

ARCHIMEDES WOULD ASK THALES:

the point of no return

and the point of no arrival.

Are those two points close?

ARCHIMEDES DREAMED OF TWO IDEAL STUDENTS

and said:

you need knowledge

because you are stupid. and

you need knowledge

because you are smart.

BLURRY PICTURE

a night in Syracuse: a silent and terrible night:

I hear the roar of the sea, for a moment,

i see:

in a city:

in a street:

in some yard:

yes breathless

I approach some door,

and the door moves away.

like a grain of salt he lives in me

of mutna slika:

have i ever been there

or I dreamed it

or someone dreamed of me

or I dreamed that someone was dreaming of me.

GOSSIP ARRIVES IN SICILY

you have heard how Socrates died

ali

Metrocles: strangled himself.

Diogenes of Sinope: killed himself by holding his breath.

and Streton, historians report: he was so thin,

he didn't even feel when death came to him.

INSCRIPTION ON A FOUNTAIN IN SYRACUSE

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long ago, when a pipe was just an idea of ​​a pipe, it needed a cavity through which water flows towards the mouth because there is a thirst that exists as a memory of water

even Sicily would not be an island if it were not surrounded by water

O HOLIDAYS

: in childhood, nothing scared me like the thought of emptiness

: Horror vacui: when air is extracted from the pipe, the water rises; on the basis of this physical principle, Aristotle interpreted how water escapes from the void

: I bought a notebook: I opened it and cried over the emptiness: that's why I have to write

: Parmenides rejected the empty, but he did not reject the ugly

: Solon, Plato's ancestor, said: if someone puts out the eye of a man who has one eye, let both eyes be dug out: that is the uniform production of emptiness

: Democritus, the great traveller, after many years of wandering returned home with empty pockets as befits one who meditates on emptiness

: man invented cans, but it took him 50 years to invent the can opener; those years were important when you could feel the emptiness of something to come

O HOLIDAYS, AGAIN

there is no Archimedes today: and that hurts.

and how was it for him: when the tooth

becomes a hollow tooth, then the gap hurts

:

Archimedes takes the pliers and pulls out his tooth

:

a hole remains in the flesh and the pain increases: pain for what is not there.