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April 17: Here's my latest exercise from Paint Shop:
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Kinda pathetic but a few possibilities may be in it. I don't seem to be going anywhere in these efforts, but I've now done something at Paint Shop every day for nine days in a row. I always luck into at least one color combination I like. I don't feel any two of my words have made a Eureka click with one another. But a few unexpected words that could be effective have slipped out--"pebbles" here. What I'm mainly hoping for (but trying not to try too hard for) are visual techniques with metaphorical potential. In this piece, for instance, I tried, tepidly, the device of two dividend sheds, one using the end of the other as a pivot, and each holding a different dividend, as part of a different long division example. It's hard to make out, for I also re-tried the device of duplicating part of my piece, then overlaying the piece with an enlargement of it, its transparency increased. Several layers, each with a different version of a poem should be worth doing. . . .
What haven't done today and should, since I have the day off, is my new sequence of long divisions of poetry by the eight parts of speech. I know pretty exactly now how I'm going to lay it out. All I lack are remainders, but they shouldn't be hard to come up with. I had a major problem with making it mathematically sensible that I solved yesterday--twice, the first solution turning out to be only partially effective. I wanted to divide by "nouns" first, then by "verbs," with the resulting subdividend product of the division by "verbs" being a variation of the subdividend product of the previous division. The quotient in both cases would be the same slant version of "words." After several days of having this planned, though, I saw that this would mean "verbs" was larger in mathematical value than "nouns," which I didn't want. It would also suggest that "verbs" somehow contained "nouns," which didn't make sense.
I'd be surprised if anyone can follow this reasoning of mine. I'm not sure I entriely do. I'll try to make it clearer in due course. Posting the series will help. I'm having trouble getting started with that because most, if not all, the ideas I have for it are too directly rational: for example, "verbs" will introduce motion. I have to force myself to go with my present uninspired ideas and trust my imagination to go off the track as I work on the poems.
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