Mike Keith – Cadaeic Cadenza

One
A Poem

A Raven

Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap – the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber’s antedoor.
“This”, I whispered quietly, “I ignore”.

Seems an ‘ordinary’ text from a poem or story. But the text below is actually a part of an amazing short story by Mike Keith, where length of every word spells out the digits of Pi – actually the first 3835 digits of it. Even the name ‘Cadaeic’ is encoded to the Pi, if ‘A’ is ‘1′, ‘B’ is ‘2′, ‘C’ is ‘3′, etc…

Even more, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature (The Raven, Jabberwocky, the lyrics of Yes, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rubaiyat, Hamlet, and Carl Sandburg’s Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme.

Here to the Cadaeic Cadenza page.

Read also Demetri Martin – Dammit I’m Mad.

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