The engine of difference
runs black or white;
significance emerges,
separation appears,
stripped by numbers,
significance dissolves:
information devoured
by the matrix of an answer.
© BH, 2021
Found some words - as written - as revised - in a notebook begun in 2013. Herewith revised again.
This was around the culmination of my 'Initialising' cycle in 2014 and is a discarded fragment from, possibly, a poem called Juxtapositioning.
It follows the same science-cosmology, deep time flavour of the series. In this case, not forgetting the term 'difference engine' refers to the early computational devices of the 18th century pioneered by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage.
For more about Ada look for her on Wikipedia in her own name, The Babbage entry reduces her to a mere footnote. You'll find her vision for computing was the more visionary. Oh, and she was the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron - that dissolute Scots poet we all 'admire' and slap our foreheads about.
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