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	The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks
		Hex, a mid-life obsession that I am passing on to my children, and Grooks, brilliant little poems that I should really get my kids interested in, were all the product of one man, a Danish polymath named Piet Hein (1905-1996).
		‘Grook’ is a meaningless word, pulled out of thin air; when they came to number in the 1,000s, Hein said that he should have named them more carefully.
		If it happens, it won’t be for his games, science, or the Grooks; it will be for the philosophy underlying all of his work.
	www.powerweb.net /playandlive/piethein.htm (889 words)

	Grooks
		I'm sure that many of you wonder what a grook actually is. I discovered these extraordinary short poems on the internet (thanks to a fellow translator on ProZ) and wanted to share them with anybody who happened by my page.
		A Grook is a short aphoristic poem accompanied by an appropriate drawing, revealing in a minimum of words and with a minimum of lines some basic truth about the human condition.
		Grooks were created originally during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
	members.tripod.com /greekdaffodil-ivil/id9.html (244 words)

	[minstrels] On Problems -- Piet Hein
		'Grook' ('gruk' in Danish) is a word invented by Hein to describe his short, aphoristic poems.
		Pithy, perceptive, varying from the gently quirky to the funny, and with a deceptively simple style that hides their richly multifaceted nature while robbing it of none of its impact - the average grook reads like something between a nursery rhyme and a proverb, and like them, is absolutely distinctive.
		Indeed, that is what most impresses me about Hein's grooks - how, with very little in the way of formal structure, they manage to be so strongly stamped with his very individual style.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/668.html (412 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Piet Hein (Denmark) - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym Kumbel Kumbell.
		He was a direct descendant of Piet Pieterszoon Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century.
		He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called Grooks (Gruk in Danish) and creations like the games of Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, Pyramystery, and the Soma cube.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Piet_Hein_(Denmark) (316 words)

	Grooks by Piet Hein
		AN ETHICAL GROOK I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best.
		GROOK ON LONG-WINDED AUTHORS Long-winded writers I abhor, and glib, prolific chatters; give me the ones who tear and gaw their hair and pens to tatters: who find their writing such a chore they only write what matters.
		A REPROOF Grook in answer to a long explanatory letter In view of your manner of spending your days I hope you may learn, before ending them, that the effort you spend on defending your ways could better be spent on amending them.
	chat.carleton.ca /~tcstewar/grooks/grooks.html (4649 words)

	Aetolia, the Midnight Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Perhaps the most intelligent of the mortal races, the Grook are a people shrouded in mystery.
		The only known settlement of Grook is located within the misty swamps of the island of Ulangi, and its people are quiet and secretive about their ways.
		As a result of this, it is not unusual for one to see a great number of Grook within those organisations that have dedicated themselves to the study and practice of ancient and arcane disciplines.
	www.aetolia.com /grooks2.htm (108 words)

	Amazon.com: Grooks: Books: Piet Hein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Grooks are short poems, often humorous and sometimes politically correct, but mostly entertaining and accompanied by amusing illustrations
		Grooks is one of the few books I've read many times.
		In the 6th grade in 1969 I found Grooks in a secondhand bookstore (in SLC) and still refer to the poems.
	www.amazon.com /Grooks-Piet-Hein/dp/0262580071 (967 words)

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		AN ETHICAL GROOK I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best.
		GROOK ON LONG-WINDED AUTHORS Long-winded writers I abhor, and glib, prolific chatters; give me the ones who tear and gaw their hair and pens to tatters: who find heir writing such a chore they only write what matters.
		A REPROOF Grook in answer to a long explanitory letter In view of your manner of spending your days I hope you may learn, before ending them, that the effort you spend on defending your ways could be better spent on amending them.
	www.leptonica.com /cachedpages/grooks/grooks.html (3813 words)

	Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - Harmonic forming in words: Grooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many people have tried to define what a grook actually is. It may be said that most grooks say what anybody may think out themselves, but they put pertinent new perspectives on everyday observations which present the reader with small instructions in the finest of all the arts: the art of living.
		Piet Hein called it pedagogical grook and mentioned it afterwards in other connections as a kind of key to all the other grooks.
		The small grooks belong to everybody, exactly as was Piet Hein's original intention.
	denmark.dk /portal/page?_pageid=374,899041&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (284 words)

	Books
		Grooks, by Piet Hein (ISBN 0-262-58007-1, also, Grooks II and Grooks III, published by MIT Press)
		Three volumes of "Grooks" (Piet Hein's poetic form) offer deep and often profound commentary on life and values in a terse, structured rhyming presentation.
		Among his inventions are the Soma Cube puzzle and the Super Egg—a superquadric of degree 2.5 with unique stability properties in 3D.
	www.primacy.org /readings-book.htm (681 words)

	Grooks By Piet Hein - Piet Hein - Piet Hein - Home Furnishings - Unica Home
		Many people have reviewed Piet Hein’s ingenious verses over the years and sought for a deeper meaning hidden in their overall name ‘Grook’.
		One thing is certain — Grook was a completely new and brilliantly apt title for the ingenious verses paid for by the line and written for the ‘Politiken’ column ATS from 1940 until 1961.
		Mogens Lorentzen reviewed the Grooks in 1944 in Politiken, where he wrote, among other things: “Kumbel (the pseudonym Hein used) has a strange brain, specially tuned in to things that can neither be weighed or measured.
	www.unicahome.com /p15763/piet-hein/grooks-by-piet-hein.html (320 words)

	MAIN MENU
		Grooks are simple verses that contain hidden meaning.
		Grooks can rhyme, but don't always have to.
		Grooks are four lines long, with the last word of lines two and four rhyming.
	www.angelfire.com /bug/dstockwell/grooks.htm (101 words)

	Puzzle: Snip and Clip
		Hein was a man of many talents who happened to write poetry in addition to his many other avocations.
		Below this picture is a copy of one of Hein's Grooks: "Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by hitting back." This Grook epitomizes Jim's approach to puzzles and problems - he loves a challenge and over the years has been able to motivate his students to relish challenges as well.
		You and your students may not be able to clip together three or more paper clips right away, but it can be done if you accept the challenge and persist.
	www.aimsedu.org /Puzzle/snipnclip/snip.html (619 words)

	Amazon.com: Grooks 1: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A grook is a short, aphoristic poem, accompanied by an appropriate drawing, revealing in a minimum of words and with a minimum of lines some basic truth about the human condition.
		Grooks were created originally during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
		Grooks are the product of one of the most ingenious minds of this or any other century.
	www.amazon.com /Grooks-1/dp/0385041403 (477 words)

	Grooks by Piet Hein
		AN ETHICAL GROOK I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best.
		GROOK ON LONG-WINDED AUTHORS Long-winded writers I abhor, and glib, prolific chatters; give me the ones who tear and gaw their hair and pens to tatters: who find heir writing such a chore they only write what matters.
		A REPROOF Grook in answer to a long explanatory letter In view of your manner of spending your days I hope you may learn, before ending them, that the effort you spend on defending your ways could be better spent on amending them.
	www.btinternet.com /~tsunamiblue/grooks.html (3793 words)

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		Not for nothing did Piet Hein, as mentioned, begin his career at the Swedish school of art, and countless drawings of the thousands made have been executed with sometimes baroque sometimes elegant lines as a pictorial supplement to texts that one would never have believed could be illustrated.
		It ought also to be mentioned that he did not only translated a host of his Grooks into English – there is a whole collection of them with the title Grooks – but also a number into Spanish.
		One is that which is characterised by the Grooks that are extrovert, which have a satirical barb or which contain experiences and observations of use to other people, and which more or less directly give guidance in the art of living.
	www.piethein.com /usr/piethein/HomepagUK.nsf/0/2e8962af9e1fffeac1256c860039c7eb?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1 (2513 words)

	Grooks by Piet Hein
		The very characteristic flavor of grooks is hard to describe, but is easy to recognize.
		Piet Hein wrote grooks in both Danish and English, and there are a few matched pairs.
		The only problem with this, is that the several volumes of GROOKS and FURTHER GROOKS published by Doubleday and Co are all out of print.
	www.beagle-ears.com /lars/dansk/grooks (189 words)

	Piet Hein (Denmark) at AllExperts
		His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym Kumbel Kumbell.
		He studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen (later to become the Niels Bohr Institute), and Technical University of Denmark.
		He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called Grooks (Gruk in Danish) and creations like the games of Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, Pyramystery, and the Soma cube.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pi/piet_hein_(denmark).htm (394 words)

	COLLECTED GROOKS ll af Piet Hein • Borgens Forlag
		I GROOKS I og GROOKS II er en lang række af Piet Heins glæder og suk samlet til glæde for alle, der gerne vil have et særligt minde fra Danmark eller gerne vil forære venner og bekendte i det fremmede noget helt enestående dansk.
		His grooks often open a small window on a large world.”
		a best-selling author and poet, a popular convenor of assemblies of Nobel Laureates the undoubted inventor of a form of small aphoristic verse called a Grook the undoubted inventor, too, of a totally new shape, the Super Ellipse, that now rules Danish and Swedish design from the Stockholm City Centre to salad bowls.
	www.borgen.dk /product.asp?product=253&page=4 (338 words)

	Piet Hein Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		He secured his place in Danish literature, however, with his pithy poems and aphorisms, well known in Denmark as gruk (translated as grooks).
		With growing recognition in Denmark and abroad, through his grooks, designs, and games, Hein came to embody the character of his country and to represent it in an official capacity.
		Piet Hein was born on 16 December 1905 in Copenhagen to Hjalmar H.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/piet-hein-dlb (181 words)

	Zoology 304, Evolution
		And no effort at understanding is likely to be rewarded without a sincere presumption that something worth knowing might lie behind these terms (see Grooks).
		Although both presume that the same questions and the same subject matter properly concern both Science and Religion, they disagree over whose methodology is presumed to be more reliable (see Grooks).
		However, these hypotheses are basically assertions that the concepts of physics, chemistry, and biology, including evolution by natural selection, are fundamentally inadequate to explain the emergence of life and adaptation (see Grooks).
	www.science.siu.edu /zoology/king/304/wrldview.htm (8134 words)

	Quotations from Piet Hein's Grooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Danish philosopher, mathematician, scientist and author - and the inventor of the superelips.
		His grooks are aphorisms - a sort of rhymed epigrams.
		The word 'grook' in another invention of Piet Hein.
	www.nbi.dk /~petersen/Quotes/Grooks/grooks.html (85 words)

	MazeWorks - Hex: The Inventors
		He is known primarily for his numerous original creations, including the super-ellipse and super-egg, the Soma cube, many intricate mathematical games, and the short, aphoristic poetical form he called the "grook" (gruk in Danish).
		He wrote thousands of grooks, sometimes under the psuedonym "Kumbel." (A few of the English language grooks appear scattered through these pages.)
		Piet Hein said that the game of Hex occurred to him while contemplating the well-known four-color problem in topology.
	www.mazeworks.com /hex7/about/invent.htm (346 words)

	Edinburgh Geologist - Astro-gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The poem in this issue of The Edinburgh Geologist is a grook.
		It was a gem and, search though I did, I never found any books entitled 'Grooks' or even 'More grooks' that I could add to my collection.
		Piet Hein has one of those rare and psychologically mysterious minds, possessed by so many great creative scientists such as Einstein and Niels Bohr, a mind going straight to the heart of the problem, seeing all its aspects in a single unity, then finding a solution that is as unexpected as it is beautiful.
	www.edinburghgeolsoc.org /z_41_08.html (367 words)

	Projects - Millennium Puzzles - Soma Cube
		Besides his Soma Cube, he discovered a new geometrical form called "the super-ellipse" and then developed its 3D version - "the super-ellipsoide" mostly called "the super egg." He developed a very popular strategy game for two players - Hex.
		One more of Piet Hein's super creations is "Grooks" - short philosophical, aphoristic poems well-known all over the World.
		Many more details about Piet Hein and his wonderful creations can be found at the Thorleif's SOMA Page - The Official History of SOMA.
	www.puzzles.com /Projects/MillenniumPuzzles/SomaCube.htm (833 words)

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		Like so much of filk, this effort is not going to be particularly accessable to you unless you've read Forward's book.
		A few years after I had written the lyrics, I noticed that the first two lines of the third chorus were remarkably similar to one of Piet Hein's "Grooks." I don't know if this was a recovered memory or a case of similar invention, but I don't consciously rip off other authors.
		Title: The Cheela Marching Song Lyric: Duane Elms, © 03/07/86 Tune: Duane Elms, © 11/28/85 E A E A E A E A We are the Cheela, ours is the hard way, E A B G E A E A We choose our path through the flow.
	copper.wnmu.edu:8100 /~dkelms/cheela.htm (419 words)

	Grooks - CANNABIS.COM Message Boards - Quality Marijuana and Hemp Information
		Just goes to show you, despite what many think, words can be very fun.
		Try making some Grooks of your own- post 'em.
		A grook is a form of short aphoristic poem- something that may give advice, make no sense at all, be ironic, sad, funny, anything.
	boards.cannabis.com /cannabis-com-lounge/100674-grooks.html (607 words)

	commonplace_sam: Grooks
		Since all of his Grook collections seem to be out of print, it can be very difficult for people to be exposed to Piet Hein's wonderful way with words.
		This is a sampling of just some of the thousands of Grooks that this Danish poet/scientist/architect/all-round human being wrote in his lifetime.
		That's something over three hundreed grooks in the two volumes.
	community.livejournal.com /commonplace_sam/9585.html (484 words)

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