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From hall%vice.ico.tek.com@relay.cs.net Fri Aug 17 09:17:19 1990
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From: hall%vice.ico.tek.com@relay.cs.net
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Subject: Pure Mathematics
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Keywords: science, smirk
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[Acquired many years ago from the Math Department at Brigham Young
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University. They credited it to the _Princeton Tiger_]
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POOR PURE PERCY P
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Percy P was a mathematician
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whose "pureness" was never denied.
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But he found one day, to his sorrow,
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that his theorems had been applied!
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He had used all the standard precautions;
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his papers were pointedly dry!
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But his own esoteric notation
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had been solved by a physicist spy!
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The colloquium buzzed with the gossip;
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he could offer no valid excuse.
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Percy P was a traitor of traitors,
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for his work was of PRACTICAL USE!
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Nobody dared to defend him.
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Could it be that he'd plead the crime
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That his work was just then needed
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to effect quantization of time?
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Ignored when he joined conversations;
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one would think that he poisoned the air.
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And he felt on his way to the office -
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a new man might be in his chair.
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A committee was in operation,
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working twenty four hours a day,
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Deleting his name from the journals,
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and throwing his reprints away.
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He knew where his future was leading,
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no sense in prolonging the pain;
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He left with a handful of papers,
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and never was heard from again.
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So take heed all you mathematicians
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who pretend your endeavor is pure;
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Tho' your luck may hold for a decade,
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in the end you can never be sure.
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--
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