#pilish

[pearlhoardingdragon]

I just learned about composing verse in pilish, where the word lengths correspond to the digits of pi.

And that's exactly the sort of nerdy hobby Pearl would be into.

[pannan-art]

sketch vs final

[marklakshmanan]

File under who thought of this?: “Pilish” is a type of constrained writing in which the lengths of consecutive words match the digits of the number pi. This of course can be a mnemonic for remembering the consecutive digits in pi. The longest known example is a novel of 10,000 words by Mike Keith, Not A Wake.

[shakindave]

“Circle Digits – A Self-Referential Story,” Mike Keith (1986)

[tinababeh]

My piem for Pi Day

See (3) a (1) love (4)

A (1) lover (5) enigmatic (9)

Of (2) future (6) absent (5)

Run (3)

[cognitioncorsair]

Pilish

A beautiful form of writing where the numbers of letters in the words you are writing are the digits of pi, for example:

“How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!” by physicist Sir James Jeans

There are numerous works that have been written in this language, some of which I will be posting later on.