This chaotic cadence is not unexpected,
found verse as found sounds, patterns
erupting from the formless. Zoom out:
watch the brush-strokes merge into the
ballerina. The shapes come, motifs repeat -
try your pi-philology on me.
(try a poem a verse lettering by
number shows our clear and brave
attempts revealing pattern deploying
our pi and beautys open secret)
Codes in plain sight, but undeciphered.
Until Lorenz' butterfly effects a change and
Mandelbrot changes nature's geomancy
to geometric exactitude - but fractally:
objects' irregularity is constant over
different scales; the noise in statistics
is the sound of one line rhyming.
(try kochs curve closing a finite area
being an infinitely long line
as fantastical as mengers sponge
which cannot clean his carpet and failed
to blow vaslavs gasket in warsaw)
The numbers are the secret and
the secrets are in the numbers.
Comments
FTSE100 | August 7, 2009 - 15:23
I know the answer. It's seven.
I had my first taste of algebra in Mr. Barber's class in primary school, just after the eleven-plus exams. We did an equation and discovered that x is seven. I've remembered that ever since. If anyone wants to know what x is, it's seven. Mr. Barber said so.
At the time I wondered how long x stayed seven for because we did another equation afterwards and found it was something entirely different. But I'll stick with the first answer, thank you. Life's complicated enough without having letters that can't make up their minds what number they want to be.
threeleafshamrock | August 7, 2009 - 21:47
The only thing I'd enjoy more than a dose of algebra would be ...err, syphilis maybe?
Enjoyed this but remember asking my dad what the value of Pi was and he told me; 'it puts hair on your chest lad!'...and he never told lies - except about Santa!
lenchenelf | August 7, 2009 - 23:56
Hmmmn, but as a cute poster boy, what do you think of ...
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~dusautoy/
..and I hated using slide-rules :)