Monday, April 17, 2017

Monologue Mania Day # 1160 About Love and Math in the Time of Chemistry (for Osculation) by Janet S. Tiger (c) April 17 , 2017

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Monologue Mania Day # 1160 About Love and Math in the Time of Chemistry (for Osculation) by Janet S. Tiger (c) April 17 , 2017               
           (This scene is at the beginning of the play, not sure exactly where, but it will fit eventually! 

  Other scenes from this play are on these days - Days # 308,396, 470, 490, 698, 750, 804, 817,825, 1060, 1100, 1133, 1146, 1150, 1151, 1153, 1159  and today 1160)

            This will precede yesterday's scene, very close to the beginning of the play

                                 About Love and Math in the Time of Chemistry
                                                    (from Osculation)
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              (The young man- teenager- Isaac -  brings chalk onstage - a board is not necessary, as most of the audience will not understand what he is saying.  He wears glasses and is nervous, but is determined to get his points across to the female student he is tutoring - Ariana, who is trying to pay attention, but having trouble)

ARIANA -  I just don't get it!

ISAAC - Now, Ariana, I am going to go over this again, since you didn't seem to understand it the first time.

ARIANA - What gave you the clue?  By the way, can you go a little faster?  I didn't miss all the words.....

ISAAC - All right, I'll slow down a bit....

         (He draws a circle, then a line through the circle)

ISAAC - .A chord of a circle is a geometric line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circle.

ARIANA -  A chord is two or more notes.....Accord is agreement.....a cord can also be used to strangle people.....

ISAAC - Okay, a straight line connecting two points through a circle is called a chord......

ARIANA -  Thank you!  That I can understand.

          (He draws a curve and a line)

ISAAC - And an asymptote of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as they tend to infinity.....(quickly) Okay, okay! It's when a curve approaches a line but never reaches it....

ARIANA -  If this doesn't get any easier, I'm going to ask you to kiss my assymptote....

ISAAC - (Cuts her off)   OK!  (Very slow) And this is a curved line........and this......


         (He draws a circle)

ISAAC - Is.....a....circle.......The point of contact, where these two different mathematical forms have a common tangent.....is called osculation...

ARIANA -  (Laughing)  Now that's a word!  So this is all about getting together....(suggestive)  Intersex-tion!

ISAAC (Understanding, but starting to get annoyed)  No!  Intersection involves either sets or lines!  You have to get this, because next month's Academic Decathalon is going to focus on just these types of questions!  Maybe you're good at Jane Austen and Moby Dick, but you have to have some of this math, too!

ARIANA - Then connect it to something I know!  I know words - make it into words, real words!

ISAAC - Okay, maybe I can give you some eytomology..... ....asymptote is from the Greek,
asumptōtos which means "not falling together", and osculation is from the Latin.....ōsculātiō -“a kissing”,

       (Starts to realize what he is saying, starts backing away)

ISAAC-...... from osculor -“I kiss”-......

ARIANA -  Now you're talking my language!

       (She gets closer, smiling.  Getting nervous, he takes off glasses and wipes them)

ISAAC - Do you have to stand like that...I mean......

        (He is up against the wall and it is obvious what is about to happen, he wriggles away to leave, stops, looks back.)

ISAAC - I think this is a good time to end this lesson!

         (He goes to exit...... stumbles off, glasses askew, but he is smiling.  Lights down.  End of scene)

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First posted as a monologue on Day #308   About Love and Math in the Time of Chemistry  Dec. 17, 2014 
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