Sah'ot's Poetic Form OK, I'm having fun trying to plot out a novel where there's going to be an Uplift Ceremony on Hurmuphta, and our good Dr. Brin says he's already got it all set out so that Tom and Gillian will be meeting elsewhere.
So he says, "How about Sah'ot?" The civilian poet anthropologist. The dolphin civilian poet anthropologist. There's no way I can write about how the Skiff's occupants went their seperate ways. (I figure that revelation is at least six years away.) But I do need a back story as to how Sah'ot can earn a living for a year or two without revealing the fact that he is a dolphin. (Oh...he's hitching a ride with a whale sized alien with a pelican-like mouth pouch.) He can't write dolphin poetry--that'd be too revealing. So he has to invent a new form of poetry. Has Holopoetry been used much --or at all, in Science Fiction? As a Google search, I found out that there already is at least one holo-poet. Holopoetry and fractal holopoetry: Digital holography as an art medium To quote the opening: A holographic poem, or holopoem, is a poem conceived, made and displayed holographically. This means, first of all, that such a poem is organized non-linearly in an immaterial three-dimensional space and that even as the reader or viewer observes it, it changes and gives rise to new meanings. Thus as the viewer reads the poem in space â that is, moves around the hologramâhe or she constantly modifies the structure of the text. ---I beg to differ, just a bit. Why not have it stay lineal. Sah'ot invents a new kind of poetry. Holo-cubism. The idea borrowed just a bit from the movie Contact, and inserted into the bit where Mudfoot runs through the floating letters. Dr. Brin had floating holo words being used as a tool of the author. Why not make it the art form used by the poet. Thus the invention of Holo Cube Poetry. If you place yourself inside of the holocube, you can read six poems on the cubes six faces. Say six haiku of 5,7,5 syllables. If the observer spacially stays still and the cube rotates, the lines change and you get six new poems. But not using any new text! Maybe a word from the third line now appears on the first line. Maybe a world flips upon the face of the cube and "saw" becomes "was." Four poems per face. So the six poems now become twenty-four poems. Now step outside of the cube and look through two faces at the same time. The words on both the close and far face flip so that they can be read You're looking directly through the near and far face to read a single _double_ haiku of 10, 14, and 10 syllables. That's four more poems per face. You now have forty-eight poems to read. And if you stand the cube on an edge, you have four faces to look at. You actually wind up reading a single poem of six lines of 10, 14, 10. 10, 14, and 10 syllables. Four edges per face.... That's seventy-two poems in all. All from six haiku... Anglic might be a challenge. Gal One is all dots and dashes may be too boring.Is it Gal 2 that's mostly dots and dashes? Maybe Gal Three as dolphins are dood at it. And it'd be fitting to take all that money from the unsuspecting Gubru. So, ya think this might be original enuff that it aint already in the Library? William Taylor ------------------- And I'm NOT going to even try to do this. I think you'd need a large computer....
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