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Wystan Hugh Auden

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Minus times minus equals plus,
The reason for this we need not discuss.
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As stated in "The Poet Himself" by Paul Fussell, in The New York Times (4 October 1981), these lines were a "math mnemonic" which Auden "had to memorize as a child."

 
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