HIST 15

Joe Bunnett, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Narration in verse was the rage

In earlier years of our age

Factual statements appeared

Lucid discourse was cheered

Pleonasm* was simply an outrage.

Presentation written in verse

Is characteristically terse

It takes so much time

to find rhythm and thyme

To state a truth or deny its inverse.

* from the Greek, "redundancy of words in speaking or writing."

A Festival of Chemistry Entertainments
9:00 AM-11:55 AM, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Marriott Convention Center -- Fulton, Oral