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Similar Triangles Poem

The Epistle of Timo

2024
Digital
The Epistle of Timo, 2024 — Man = ((God)(Blood)) / Money
The Epistle of Timo, 2024 — digital
The poem Man  =  (God)(Blood) ⁄ Money

The value of man is to the value of God as the value of blood is to the value of money.

The same poem, solved four ways

A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.

  1. Man = (God)(Blood) ⁄ Money
  2. God = (Man)(Money) ⁄ Blood
  3. Blood = (Money)(Man) ⁄ God
  4. Money = (Blood)(God) ⁄ Man
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