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Show Prosy. The late Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice In Wonderland," used to tell this story to illustrate the average mathematician's mathe-matician's contempt for poetry: "In the course of an argument about poetry with an instructor In trigonometry trigonom-etry he gave the instructor Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade' to read. " 'There, read that,' he said, 'and If you don't find it full of beauty I'll give in.' "The instructor sneered, looked at the page and began to read: "'Half a league, half a league, half a league ' 4 "Then he threw down the book. " 'If the fool means a league and a half,' he snorted, 'why can't he say so?' " |