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inspired by this post on my friend matt pearson’s professional website, i thought i’d have a stab myself at transcoding a william blake poem into code (using actionscript, as it’s what i’m most accustomed to)

var garden:OfLove = getChildhoodGarden();

if (garden.chapel is Chapel)
{  
  garden.chapel.x = garden.width / 2;
  garden.chapel.y = garden.height / 2;
  garden.chapel.shut = true;
  garden.chapel.doctrine = “Thou shalt not”;
  
  var len:int = garden.sweetFlowers.length;
  for (var i:int=0; i<len; i++){
    garden.sweetFlowers[i] = new Tombstone();
  }
  
  var priest:Priest;
  len = garden.priests.length;
  for (i=0; i<len; i++){
    priest = Priest( garden.priests[i] );
    priest.setStyle(”gownColor”, 0×000000);
    priest.walk();
    priest.bind(BRIARS, my.joys);
    priest.bind(BRIARS, my.desires);
  }
}

the necessity to develop and apply geometry to farming produced by the seasonal flooding of the nile found expression in a series of mathematical papyri. the great egyptian mathematician ahmose was responsible for the moscow mathematical papyrus:

moscow mathematical papyrus - courtesy of wikipedia.org

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reality is overrated.

“filtration, as anyone with sunglasses knows, gives magic to the world”
alan sondheim

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