The Ecphorizer
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 Just as cynicism makes us say sometimes, many of the
things in our lives are nothing more than illusions hanging in the air. How many times we dream of possibilities which never came true. But that never stops our dreams from shaping. We rationalize,       synthesize, weigh all possibilities in our minds, but still there is that child-like quality in our innerselves which dismissing everything our intellect has learned, yearns for those brilliant, elusive and mysterious bubbles of illusion that seem to stay                                                                                                                                                                  just                                                                             one                                                    inch                                                          away                                                                from                                                                      our                                                                         reach.  Logic or imagination, experience or dreams, reality or the wondrous world of make-believe,  a constant struggle between extremes. But we'll always want to find the exact position where standing on our feet we can let our imagination fly to unknown worlds and realities.  She's a former Program Officer for San Francisco Mensa and is noted for her cool parties and fiery Latin American cooking. More Articles by Phyllis M. Bourne |
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With this issue, Professor Lobachevski leaves on sabbatical. Because we have not asked readers to send in answers to his puzzles, we have no idea how many of our subscribers follow his column. If you would like to see it resumed on his return, just drop us a lime. Last Month's Solution. The archaeologist marks storage locations (call them x and y) at 150 and 400 miles along the route from the starting point. He travels to x, using 30 gallons for the round trip and storing 45 gallons there. He repeats this, storing another 45 gallons at x. He now starts out with 75 more gallons, stopping at x to pick up 15 gallons from the 90 there and proceeding to y. At y he leaves 25 gallons and then returns to x to pick up the remaining 75 gallons. From x he proceeds the rest of the way across the desert, stopping at y to pick up the 25 gallons he left there. Total fuel consumed: 225 gallons. Staff Member and occasional Cover Artist Martha Johnson embellished Phyllis Bourne's poem with a girl blowing soap bubbles in the original Ecphorizer by simply drawing on the pasted up camera-ready galley. I thought about asking her to do the same for this online reprint but we figured that it would mess up my screen! The artwork was so good and so in keeping with the poem that I did a bit of web tomfoolery to insert those bubbles. -Tod, 2006 More Articles by Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevski |
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