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Similar Triangles Poem

Obscuration, Contention
In The Persistence Of Self

2012
Digital
Obscuration, Contention In The Persistence Of Self, 2012 — Dharma = ((Fog)(Island)) / Ocean
Obscuration, Contention In The Persistence Of Self, 2012 — digital
The poem Dharma  =  (Fog)(Island) ⁄ Ocean

The value of dharma is to the value of fog as the value of an island is to the value of the ocean.

The same poem, solved four ways

A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.

  1. Dharma = (Fog)(Island) ⁄ Ocean
  2. Fog = (Dharma)(Ocean) ⁄ Island
  3. Island = (Ocean)(Dharma) ⁄ Fog
  4. Ocean = (Island)(Fog) ⁄ Dharma
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