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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: R.I.P. Marian Parry, 100? (illus: "The Space Child's Mother Goose")
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 13:34:30 -0000 (UTC)
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Lenona wrote:
> This matches with both Radaris and the street address I had for her in
> Cambridge, Massachusetts.
>
> https://veripages.com/profile/Marian-Feld/CHHQFCDB
>
> But, again, there's no death date!
>
> (I THINK I saw some site that said she made it to 100...)
>
> Her husband's name was Maury Feld. He was a librarian who died in 2005.
>
> https://www.un-gyvelimitedgroup.com/releases/marian-parry-and-the-atelier
> (about her work, from 2016)
>
> "The Space Child's Mother Goose" was written by Frederick Winsor
> (1900-1958), an MIT architect.
>
> https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winsor_frederick
>
> "US architect, anthologist and poet, the main author of The White House
> at Pooh Corner (performed 1938; 1938 chap) with Richard H Field, a
> mildly Satirical spoof play in verse on Politics in the years
> approaching World War Two. He is best known for the witty sf Parody
> Poetry assembled as The Space Child's Mother Goose (coll 1958 chap), the
> most sustained poem being a version of 'This is the House that Jack
> Built' in which Cybernetics is evoked to demolish what looks very much
> like an edifice of Scientific Errors."

<snip>

FWIW Poem 30 in my printed book opens with "This is the Theory Jack
built."

The coda in my book is shown below - slightly adulterated to fit my
agenda. Purists who are stumped by my adulteration can "just google
it." There's a good chance disinformation site Wikipedia contains a
correct version, too. YMMV.

    This is the Space-Child with Brow Serene
    Who pushed the Button to start the Machine
    That made with the Cybernetics and Stuff
    Without Confusion, exposing the Bluff
    That hung on the Turn of a Plausible Phrase
    And, Shredding the Erudite Verbal Haze
    Cloaking Constant K,
    Wrecked the Summary
    Based on the Mummery
    Hiding the Flaw
    And Demolished the Theory [Frank] built.

Poem 33 is a favorite:

    The Colloid and the Crystalloid
      Were fighting just in jest
    The Colloid called the Crystalloid
      A Pseudo-Anapest

    Some called them physical
      And some thought them chemic-
    And some said the whole affair
      Was slightly academic.

Danke,

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