How the Consolations of Philosophy Worked Out in Actual Practice
Anthony Haden-Guest 1937 (Paris)
Plato and Pythagoras
And I, and Wittgenstein, and Locke
Have all been wired together as
Components of the Speaking Clock.
Encased in shields of plexiglass
We drool with philosophic shock.
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This poem, first published in 1969, was included in a collection of Science Fiction Verse. The "I" in the poem is not identified, but may be Boethius, the author of The Consolations of Philosophy.
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| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2 |
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