M. De Marco

To talk at a distance, when you have nothing to say, though you were ever so near; to go fast from this place to that, with nothing to do either at one or the other: these are powers certainly. - John Ruskin

Miss De Marco is a recent graduate of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University in scenic Middletown, Connecticut. Her dissertation on logic programming, under Professor Jim Lipton, is available on-line. She was also the long-time secretary of the Wesleyan Graduate Student Association. Besides the literary excursions below, this page features latex instructions for the math department.

Em português:

• On the value of higher education: Liberdade by Fernando Pessoa
• A brief pastoral: Sete anos de pastor Jacó servia by Luis de Camões

Poetry and Prose of the Industrial Revolution:

• Songs of Education: Part III by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from my G. K. Chesterton Page, featuring a special section on distributism)
• The Cry of the Children and more by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• A selection from Book Eighth of The Excursion by William Wordsworth
• The Roots of Honour (Unto This Last) by John Ruskin
• William Jennings Bryan`s "Cross of Gold" speech

Last Updated: 24-IV-2001

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