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Marsfall

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Mars always falls.
Carry a day, play a part;
All hands add laws,
And all ways shall part -
Sharply.

What a man calls a fact
Falls apart, gladly

Mars always falls;
What man calls art
Shall stand – as parts.
This one was interesting: a single vowel gives you a /very/ limited choice of words, even using several pages of source text. Lots of words like "a", "an", "and", etc. for support, but few /actual/ words to do stuff with. Not extremely happy with it, but I feel I made the most of what I had available. Will be interesting what other people using A come up with.

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WAIT SO WHAT IS THIS?
I found myself motivated by this contest from CRLit, and so I wrote a couple of 'found' poems using the amazing Applied Poetics Website. As a nod to the whole Mathematics & poetry concept, I constructed all poems in this series from a) a translation of one of Einstein's articles (in which he tries to fight the notion of quantum mechanics as a feasible description of reality) and b) a translated lecture from Max Planck on Reversibility and Irreversibility in physics.

For each of these, I'll state which article I used and which 'constraint' from Applied Poetics I used to generate my word choices.

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This one is based on:
Planck, M., 1909. Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909 - Introcution: Reversibility and Irreversibility. Translated by A.P. Wills, 2012.
Using the Univocalism on "A" (meaning the only vowel that I had access to was a!)

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Rest of the series:
Assumptions
Contemplations of Completeness
Waves of Reason
Foundations
Absolute Amalgamations
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ilyilaice's avatar
this is wonderful, especially when read aloud. :heart: