[math-fun] Mallarme and Thue-Morse
Do any of you know any comp lit or poetry afficionados who'd have access to the first draft of Mallarme's poem "Le Pitre Chatie", which I gather used an abbabaab rhyme scheme for its first eight lines? I would like to use it in my essay on the Thue-Morse sequence. As always, I prefer using a couple of minutes of someone else's time (and giving them credit) instead of spending an hour of my own time (especially since a book giving preliminary versions of Mallarme's poems might be in French and hence hard for me to navigate). Thanks, Jim Propp
I prefer using a minute of Google's time instead... https://books.google.com/books?id=wynUDVmDsvEC&pg= PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=Mallarme%27s+poem+%22Le+Pitre+Chatie% 22&source=bl&ots=GrolovV7AT&sig=iW2g_IAL8OfCoFGL7ZQzIARltbs&hl=en&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwjyv8TC1LjRAhXG6RQKHRB6AE4Q6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q= Mallarme's%20poem%20%22Le%20Pitre%20Chatie%22&f=false --Michael On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:24 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Do any of you know any comp lit or poetry afficionados who'd have access to the first draft of Mallarme's poem "Le Pitre Chatie", which I gather used an abbabaab rhyme scheme for its first eight lines?
I would like to use it in my essay on the Thue-Morse sequence.
As always, I prefer using a couple of minutes of someone else's time (and giving them credit) instead of spending an hour of my own time (especially since a book giving preliminary versions of Mallarme's poems might be in French and hence hard for me to navigate).
Thanks,
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Have you considered using a couple of minutes of your own time first? Like try googling on the string mallarme rhyme scheme "abba baab" and I suspect you will find what you're looking for. (I did.) —Dan
On Jan 10, 2017, at 2:24 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Do any of you know any comp lit or poetry afficionados who'd have access to the first draft of Mallarme's poem "Le Pitre Chatie", which I gather used an abbabaab rhyme scheme for its first eight lines?
I would like to use it in my essay on the Thue-Morse sequence.
As always, I prefer using a couple of minutes of someone else's time (and giving them credit) instead of spending an hour of my own time (especially since a book giving preliminary versions of Mallarme's poems might be in French and hence hard for me to navigate).
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