{"id":333,"date":"2003-03-24T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/stanislaw-lem-translated-by-michael-kandel\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:22","slug":"stanislaw-lem-translated-by-michael-kandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/03\/24\/stanislaw-lem-translated-by-michael-kandel\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanislaw Lem &#8211; (translated by Michael Kandel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Love and Tensor Algebra&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> Come, let us hasten to a higher plane<br \/>\n Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,<br \/>\n Their indices bedecked from one to n<br \/>\n Commingled in an endless Markov chain!<\/p>\n<p> Come, every frustrum longs to be a cone<br \/>\n And every vector dreams of matrices.<br \/>\n Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:<br \/>\n It whispers of a more ergodic zone.<\/p>\n<p> In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space<br \/>\n Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.<br \/>\n Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,<br \/>\n We shall encounter, counting, face to face.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ll grant thee random access to my heart,<br \/>\n Thou&#8217;lt tell me all the constants of thy love;<br \/>\n And so we two shall all love&#8217;s lemmas prove,<br \/>\n And in our bound partition never part.<\/p>\n<p> For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,<br \/>\n Or Fourier, or any Bools or Euler,<br \/>\n Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,<br \/>\n Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?<\/p>\n<p> Cancel me not &#8211; for what then shall remain?<br \/>\n Abscissas some mantissas, modules, modes,<br \/>\n A root or two, a torus and a node:<br \/>\n The inverse of my verse, a null domain.<\/p>\n<p> Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!<br \/>\n the product o four scalars is defines!<br \/>\n Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind<br \/>\n Cuts capers like a happy haversine.<\/p>\n<p> I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,<br \/>\n I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.<br \/>\n Bernoulli would have been content to die,<br \/>\n Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Love and Tensor Algebra&#8217; Come, let us hasten to a higher plane Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-thoughtful","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}