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27 March 2004. Today I made another standard mathemaku:
When I got done and looked at it as a whole, my first thought--which I suspect will be the first thought of many looking at it--was: "magazine cover." Not sure what to do about that. Nor have I decided whether the piece is much good or not. The haiku I used as my denominator is rather bland, I fear. The divisor is okay, but not exciting. I like the subdividend product, which those who have been following my blog will recognize as a slightly changed version of an asemantic litragraph (to start using my new terminology) I posted in an earlier entry. I got working on it yesterday to make some points about taxonomy to Gregory St. Thomasino, with whom I'm arguing, and liked the addition of "Agamemnon," so kept it in, and decided to use the image in a mathemaku. "November" soon suggested itself for the dividend, because of the colors, I guess, and the suggestion of loss in the image. And the "em" in Agamemnon's name.
Note: a few hours after posting the above, I came up with the brilliant solution to my "too-much-like-a-magazine-cover" problem:
"Agamemnon," printed backwards, is at the bottom, to the right. Its being barely visible is intentional. The colors are a little light in this version because my printer prints too dark.
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