Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem or A dream about The Lady and The Unicorn The sad fact is we are running out of blue. So we'll use red instead and a thousand flowers to bedeck the gaudy sky. The trees are striking, but draw your attention here to the cool smooth spiral of horn, mouthwatering tang of a tourtelete, heady fragrance of daisies, the plaintive toot of a portatif, your inverted gaze returned in a mirror. Like monkeys we are, in all but this, my sole desire: to know the unprovable. In truth, our systems cannot see themselves.
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Richard Weiser is a musician and playwright. His work has been produced at The Toronto Fringe Festival. He’s written ads for almost 20 years and recently won a Cannes Lion (advertising’s version of the Oscar). Richard studied creative writing at York University with Don Coles and Robert Casto. He’s written a biography of the Canadian painter Tom Thomson (unpublished) and is working on a novel set during the First Crusade.
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