Re: poetry and science
[{"sender": "Lisa New", "recipients": ["Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "12/2/2014 7:15:11 PM", "subject": "Re: poetry and science", "body": "okay. you let me know when you can talk.\n\nAnd I hadn't added to this list neuroscience--where Emily Dickinson has it nailed-- and maybe this would be the\nright poem for your group. Notice how many metaphors are operating simultaneously here\n\nThe Brain, within its Groove\nRuns evenly--and true--\n\nBut let a Splinter swerve--\n'Twere easier for You--\n\nTo put a Current back--\n\nWhen Floods have slit the Hills--\n\nAnd scooped a Turnpike for Themselves--\nAnd trodden out the Mills--\n\n| get to New York Thursday am or perhaps tomorrow night...haven't decided quite yet which. Always\nprefer face to face if you have time\n\nlisa"}, {"sender": "Lisa New", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM", "subject": "Re: poetry and science", "body": "Dear Jeffrey,\n\nApropos of our conversation of a few minutes ago, This proposal went to someone I thought was\ninterested in the environment and science but who seems, in fact, far more interested in supporting TV\non a broad range of topics.\n\n500,000 would fund this initiative as the second HGSE course (after Poetry of the City) and could begin\nimmediately, Jan 1. . I'd be thrilled to include other scientists you name, perhaps taping the group in a\nsession on metaphor at the edges of fields.\n\nINote that taped sessions already include economics, marine biology, astronomy, evolutionary biology,\nzoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David"}]