guardian.co.uk / forumlaic verse artistofideas ["BOKE" disallowed as username by the guardian] Comment No. 1097153 May 11 17:09 {high science / low verse / fill-in-the-blank}   STRING THEORY doesn't do a thing for me. No image streams to mind but Silly String. Of course some hi-sci folks say image-free conceptualizing is the scaffolding.   But surely there's a metaphor more clear. A solar system size experiment would be required to prove its truth is near reality. The price would more than dent ...   ... the gross domestic product of the earth. Perhaps some interplanetary love that spans two galaxies might yet give birth to proof. The string now stitching up a glove ...   ... to fit the hand on some rich bride across the universe... ____________________________. *   ////////////////////////////////////////////// * WARNING: The groom's suitability [i.e., the fate of earth] shall be determined by the quality of response. And no, the answer is not 42. ;) BOKE'S FILL-IN-THE-BLANK: "New meta-flora toss." guardian.co.uk / formulaic sonnets [2] artistofideas Comment No. 1100990 May 13 18:37 {soft science is harder, or, pre-emptivity, too} NETWORK EQUATIONS often are confused for value of Community effects. The Blob's (Arendt: The Social's) not amused by conscious calculation of its sects. While Google's algorithm aggregates a healthy (uncorrupted) info-field, ... ... the New York Times tonight pre-moderates out some haiku by (someone) who's not kneeled ... ... before the altar of "within the pale." And so those words fly from the tight-fit crowd ... ... and end not in the belly of the whale but in the search results (though not as loud). The calculus of why I'd post this here's not based on summing those who'd count as peers. /////////////////////////////////////////// (NOTE: Wishing for narrow white space between each line; settling this time for breathing room between each pair.)