the three stigmata of palmer rockey

"Everything about a creature that comes out of a shell is dialectical." --Bachelard

"The movie suggests a Chick Tract as directed by a redneck Ed Wood—if that description doesn’t make you want to hit 'play,' I’m not sure what will."

Aelindromes set me to thinking. At last I came up another way to encode Pi in a poem, & this one is really devious. Taking the basic metric feet: 1. iamb, 2. trochee, 3. anapest, 4. dactyl, 5. amphibrach, 6. cretic, 7. antibaccius, & 8. bacchius, since there aren't fully ten usable, i have to convert the digits of pi into base-8 (with 8=0)--fortunately there are online computer programs that will do this for me-- 3.11037552421026430215142306305. So i think, what i need is a Latin Square to order the number of feet per line, vis. 4 1 5 2 3/ 2 3 4 5 1/ 3 5 2 1 4/ 1 2 3 4 5/ 5 4 1 3 2, which gies me: **-/*-/*-/*--//**-//--*/*-*/*-*/-*/-**//-*/*-// and so on. Throwing some words into this, i wrote:

In the wyrd of words there is no downfall
no despair
setbacks & digressions aplenty, waging limitless
peace in the noise
of blindfold choosing--here is where
perilous to the touch
the rainbow bridge of complete
uncanny the grand canyon & nearer
gapjil & erase switchback constant plan to remainv before now

I call the form a "koph" (or "qoph" if quantitative versification is used instead).

All the Pale Fire references in Blade Runner 2049.