tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post176019349812382650..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: Overheard on a SaltmarshRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-79116866901149096842013-09-02T16:04:36.315-07:002013-09-02T16:04:36.315-07:00Thanks! That's rather cool - I'd never hea...Thanks! That's rather cool - I'd never heard of Schauffler, and he looks an interesting author (see <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_Haven_Schauffler" rel="nofollow">Wikisource</a>. This would be the 1933 <i>Hallowe'en: its origin, spirit, celebration, and significance as related in prose and verse, together with Hallowe'en stories, plays, pantomimes; and suggestions for games, stunts, parties, feasts and decorations </i>. Sounds like my kind of thing.Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-59453608010886355292013-09-01T21:17:04.963-07:002013-09-01T21:17:04.963-07:00This poem was included in "Hallowe'en&quo...This poem was included in "Hallowe'en", edited by Robert Haven Schauffler in the late 40's. It was a collection of legends, traditions, stories, poems and party suggestions, part of a series of books Schauffler wrote under the umbrella title "The Days We Celebrate." I first read the book around 1960 when I was in junior high and have remembered the poem ever since.Gene B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526757085571558682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-31502977736229418612010-03-30T01:16:47.190-07:002010-03-30T01:16:47.190-07:00I'd neve encountered Saltmarsh before. It'...I'd neve encountered <i>Saltmarsh</i> before. It's spellbinding.Felixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-61104770555139374842010-03-30T10:29:45.638-07:002010-03-30T10:29:45.638-07:00I have to admit that for me the word "Saltmar...I have to admit that for me the word "Saltmarsh" is indelibly associated with geometry. When I was doing mathematics at school, we had Saltmarsh (a previous pupil) held up as an example of creativity. I never met Saltmarsh, but apparently he had rather stereotypical genius style, such as long hair before it was fashionable. Anyhow, he invented a short elegant proof of the <a href="http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/BOOKS/bkmm7xtn.htm" rel="nofollow">Alternate Segment Theorem</a> using symmetry; the teacher, Mr Armstrong, wrote it up in <i>The Mathematical Gazette</i> <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/3614244" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-53472458739592753812010-03-31T14:30:12.056-07:002010-03-31T14:30:12.056-07:00[grin] so, you all fantasised about giving Saltmar...[grin] so, you all fantasised about giving Saltmarsh a good kicking behind the bike sheds?Felixnoreply@blogger.com