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La mia risposta: &#8220;ho un CD triplo con le sue canzoni!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tom Lehrer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpv02yd2714o\">morto ieri<\/a> alla bella et\u00e0 di 97 anni, era un matematico che aveva tra l&#8217;altro insegnato a Harvard, al MIT e alla University of California. Ma nel sottobosco matematico era conosciuto per le sue canzoni parodia che scrisse tra gli anni &#8217;50 e &#8217;60, a volte su musica altrui altre volte con melodie originali. Io sono venuto a sapere della sua esistenza da Adam Atkinson: tra i suoi brani quello che ho apprezzato forse di pi\u00f9 \u00e8 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lobachevsky_(song)\">Lobachevsky<\/a> (il nome era stato scelto solo per ragioni metriche) in cui il protagonista decanta le meraviglie del plagiarismo. Traduco al volo l&#8217;ultima strofa (parlata, non cantata):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Io non mai dimentico il giorno il mio primo libro fu pubblicato:<br \/>\nogni capitolo io rubato da qualche altra parte.<br \/>\nIndice l&#8217;ho copiato da vecchio elenco telefonico di Vladivostok.<br \/>\nLibro \u00e8 stato sensazionale!<br \/>\n<i>Pravda<\/i>&#8230; <i>Pravda<\/i>&#8230; <i>Pravda<\/i> disse: (**)<br \/>\n&#8220;Una schifezza!&#8221;<br \/>\nMa <i>Izvestia<\/i>&#8230; <i>Izvestia<\/i> disse: (**)<br \/>\n&#8220;Una schifezza!&#8221;<br \/>\nMetro-Goldwin-Moskva compra diritti cinematografici per sei milioni di rubli,<br \/>\nCambiando titolo in &#8220;L&#8217;Eterno triangolo&#8221;,<br \/>\ncon Ingrid Bergman nella parte dell&#8217;ipotenusa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Le parti con l&#8217;asterisco erano pronunciate in russo con parole casuali se il pubblico non capiva il russo e altri giochi di parole (spesso osceni) in caso contrario; al posto di Ingrid Bergman c&#8217;era una qualunque attrice famosa al momento.<br \/>\nCome avete capito, musicisti come Weird Al Jankovich si sono ispirati a lui. Non ho idea se gli Elii conoscessero la sua opera, ma non mi stupirei. Tra l&#8217;altro un paio di anni fa Lehrer ha lasciato tutti i suoi testi <a href=\"https:\/\/tomlehrersongs.com\/\">nel pubblico dominio<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Se volete sentire e vedere un suo brano, vi lascio <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/91BQqdNOUxs\">&#8220;Silent E&#8221;<\/a> (via l&#8217;obituary di <a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=70210\">Mark Liberman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E chi l&#8217;ha detto che i matematici non sanno fare parodie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"modified_by":".mau.","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hcSh-8DN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11749,"url":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/2015\/08\/27\/_100-math-brainteasers_-libro\/","url_meta":{"origin":33219,"position":0},"title":"_100 Math Brainteasers_ (libro)","author":".mau.","date":"2015-08-27","format":false,"excerpt":"molti bei quizzini (facili)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;recensioni&quot;","block_context":{"text":"recensioni","link":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/category\/recensioni\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"[copertina]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/08\/9781623210298.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20845,"url":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/2020\/08\/23\/quizzino-della-domenica-colpo-fortunato\/","url_meta":{"origin":33219,"position":1},"title":"Quizzino della domenica: colpo fortunato","author":".mau.","date":"2020-08-23","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom Sawyer vede un corvo in cima a un palo su una collina: prende la sua fionda e lancia un sasso contro il corvo, che per\u00f2 al momento del lancio si allontana immediatamente in direzione opposta a Tom, muovendosi in orizzontale alla velocit\u00e0 di un metro al secondo. 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