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The Great Order of the Universe
NOTES: “The Great Order of the Universe” is a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the LEGO patent. Using a conceptual strategy reminiscent of Sol LeWitt, the image enumerates every possible way of combining two LEGO bricks, each with eight pegs. The caption consists of two texts: the first, a translated paragraph from a volume by Democritus; the second, a transcribed paragraph from the patent by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. The two paragraphs are perfect anagrams of each other.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2009).
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Activities, School & Learning, Arts & Sciences, Sciences, Language & Linguistics
POET’S REGION Canada
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Visual Poetry
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