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*artwork: hans.wyrdweb
Source material: Edmonton Journal - on-line version April 4, 2014 - using the whole of the first article in the first section, and thanks to the wonderful machine devised by one of the other Oulipolians, Douglas J. Luman, sussed my Fibonacci. The article was the lead and was entitled:
"An 'unspeakable devil' was yelling, says woman who laid oil and syringe trap for her husband"
[Select an article from your newspaper and create a poem using
Source material: Edmonton Journal - on-line version April 4, 2014 - using the whole of the first article in the first section, and thanks to the wonderful machine devised by one of the other Oulipolians, Douglas J. Luman, sussed my Fibonacci. The article was the lead and was entitled:
"An 'unspeakable devil' was yelling, says woman who laid oil and syringe trap for her husband"
Instructions for writing the poem:FIBONACCI (VARIATION)
In a
Fibonacci sequence, each term is the sum of the two terms
immediately
preceding it; typically with 1 as the first term: 1, 1, 2,
3,
5,8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and so on.
[Select an article from your newspaper and create a poem using
the
words that correspond with the numbers in the sequence.
Your
poem will take the form of first
word, first word, second word,
third word, fifth word, eighth word, thirteenth word, etc. You can
continue
until you’ve run out of words in your article or until
you’re
happy with the poem’s conclusion.]
Side Note: I'm not sure anyone's ever totally happy with their Fibonacci, especially those created under more constraints than the math itself, but, I have to admit - it was an interesting challenge...
Side Note: I'm not sure anyone's ever totally happy with their Fibonacci, especially those created under more constraints than the math itself, but, I have to admit - it was an interesting challenge...
This is amazing! I have to wonder about the mental health of the writer of the article, if they used the word "devil" with such frequency that it hit all the Fib numbers, but it worked out amazingly for your poem..
ReplyDeleteI think this is my favorite so far of the Oulipost Fib poems. The repetition really carries the sense of mad desperation that may have been at the heart of that news story.
ReplyDeleteNice spiral downward...in words, and the layout of your words. That must have been an interesting article!
ReplyDeleteThe "devil" was used again and again by the defendant, the prosecutor, and the judge, as well as the reporter so it was a pretty good bet that it would be the word that popped up as often as an article (definite or indefinite) throughout...I trusted Doug's machine to do the math especially because it was a lengthy article; the people involved did seem more than a little "disturbed" for sure.
ReplyDeleteBoy, this is great! And I like the way the poem spirals on the page.
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