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Similar Triangles Poem

El Puente Del Corazón

2022
Digital
El Puente Del Corazón, 2022 — Vacuidad over Forma equals Forma over Vacuidad, worked out to Vacuidad squared over Forma squared equals one
El Puente Del Corazón, 2022 — digital
The poem Vacuidad ⁄ Forma  =  Forma ⁄ Vacuidad

The value of emptiness is to the value of form as the value of form is to the value of emptiness.

The middle term repeats

In the ordinary similar triangles poem the four terms are four different things. Here the two inside terms are the same word, and so are the two outside terms. That symmetry has a consequence you can work out on the page: cross-multiplying gives Vacuidad² = Forma², and dividing through gives Vacuidad² ⁄ Forma² = 1.

The two terms are not merely proportional. They are, in the ratio, indistinguishable.

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