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- ↑ "Database of Gruks". piethein.com.
- ↑ This webpage [1] is a database of over 7,000 gruks by Piet Hein, in Danish. The page says (in Danish) that you can freely search it and have them emailed directly to you.
- ↑ Hicks, Jim (14 October 1966). "A Poet with a Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science". Life. Vol. 51, no. 16. pp. 55–66. ISSN 0024-3019.
- ↑ A long article in Life Magazine [3] talks about Piet Hein's becoming a passive resister beginning on page 63. It corroborates what is said here. At the time, he thought there would be 4-5 grooks, not the ~7,000 that he later wrote.
- ↑ piethein.com Archived 4 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Here is the reason why: Piet is the Dutch form of the name Peter or Petrus, which means rock, stone, and Hein is a way of spelling 'hen', the old Danish word for a whetstone. 'Kumbel', or 'kumbl' as it strictly speaking should be written, also means stone, though more a grave monument. In other words, Piet Hein, or Stone Stone can, in a way, be translated by Kumbel Kumbel. He originally wrote the second word with two Ls, also later the signature became just Kumbel – the name he is at least as well known by as his own." [5]
- ↑ Piet Hein (1966). Grooks. Translated by Jens Arup. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262580076.
- ↑ Piet Hein (1968). Grooks 2. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN 978-8741810942.
- ↑ Piet Hein (1970). Grooks 3. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0773610040.
- ↑ Piet Hein (1972). Grooks 4. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385006590.
- ↑ Piet Hein (1973). Grooks 5. Translated by Jens Arup. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385029681.
- ↑ Piet Hein (1978). Grooks VI. Translated by Jens Arup. Borgen's Pocketbooks. ISBN 978-8741846811.
- ↑ Piet Hein (1984). Grooks VII. Translated by Jens Arup. Borgen's Pocketbooks. ISBN 978-8741871639.
- ↑ "Books in English". PietHein.com. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ↑ Piet Hein (2002). Hugo Piet Hein (ed.). Collected Grooks I (2nd ed.). Borgen. ISBN 87-21-01859-6.
- ↑ Piet Hein (2002). Hugo Piet Hein (ed.). Collected Grooks II (2nd ed.). Borgen. ISBN 87-21-01861-8.
- ↑ Piet Hein. Jens Arup (ed.). Runaway Runes: Short Grooks I. Borgen. ISBN 87-418-2620-5.
- ↑ Piet Hein. Jens Arup (ed.). Viking Vistas: Short Grooks II. Borgen. ISBN 87-418-5639-2.