TITLE: Artistic Diversions from Artistic Work
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: April 20, 2006  6:54 PM
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
This<BR/>
blog<BR/>
speaks in<BR/>
rhythms of<BR/>
numbers in patterns.<BR/>
Words in patterns entice the mind.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

That bit of doggerel is my first
<A HREF="http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2006/04/fib.html">
   Fib</A>
-- a
<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/books/14fibo.html">
   poem</A>!

Each
<A HREF="http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/fib.html">
   poem</A>
is six lines, twenty syllables.  You should see a familiar pattern.

The syllables of a Fib follow the Fibonacci sequence.  And, for my
own amusement, the last three paragraphs extend the pattern.

Don't I have something better to do, like prepare slides for my
talk on steganography at this weekend's
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/camouflage-conference/">
   Camouflage Conference</A>
at UNI?  Of course!  But sometimes the mind chooses its own direction.
(Count the syllables!)
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