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23 February 2005: I got a comment on the dyptich below yesterday. Who-knows-Who said, "Bob, Forget the remainder. They stand firm on their own, although neither one works alone by itself. They both have to be shown in the same context to make any sense. They are nice as they are leave them alone."
Result: I don't know what to do. I see that the comparison of moonlit ocean to sunlit ocean can stand by itself. But I can't leave a long division example unfinished, can I?! Assuming I wasn't making some point by doing so, which wouldn't be the case here. The easiest solution would be to assume no remainder in either case. Then I could just make my sub-dividend product equal to the dividend in each. I don't think that's look good, though.
It wouldn't be a disaster to not show the sub-dividend product, I guess. I just don't want to. I'm going to go ahead and try to make products for both long divisions, concentrating on trying not to distract from the central comparison. That is, I must try for subtle understatements. I do think if I succeed with them, they'll make my poem (and I consider the pair a single poem) better. I'm also sure that they can easily damage it. Simple enough to delete them in that case, though.
Remainders will still have to be made, but I'm sure I can come up with very quiet ones to still make a contribution. We'll see. . . . In any case, nice to know someone is interested enough in my mathemaku to give me advice on them!
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