Thursday, September 20, 2012

Retrodictions, canto 6, quatrain 4

A hollow tube with glassy eye
upon a stand of iron furled
shall ten times, hundreds, magnify
the tiny world within the world.


Commentary by Brother Quark:
This is some sort of meditation amulet.
 

Commentary by N. Hellerstein:
This is about microscopes.

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