The
Golden Ratio has fascinated me for quite some time (and though I'm not proud to admit it, I would be remiss if I did not: It was
Dan Brown, via
The Da Vinci Code, who introduced it me). About the same time I read
The DVC, I was learning about the
Oulipo. My thought then and still--simple enough in concept but in practice perhaps, at worst, impossible, and at best, monstrously impractical and inartistic--is to use this ratio as an
Oulipian restriction for some type/piece of creative writing. Maybe write a poem where each stanza increases its letter count by increments of the ratio and maybe that poem could be about a conch shell (okay, that's stupid) or the dimensions of someone's beautiful face (cheesy to the extreme of bad Shakespeare imitations) or the evidence of God in nature (or lack thereof, depending on how you see things--as potentially good as bad) by its exquisite design. I don't know. I've tried many times and failed, miserably, on each attempt. Maybe I just need a good idea to build from.
What do you think?
Got an idea?
Can you do it?
Care to share?
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