Cadaeic Cadenza
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Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an example of constrained writing, a book with restrictions on how it can be written. It is also one of the most prodigious examples of piphilology.
Cadaeic Cadenza has perhaps the harshest limitations on the exact words that can be used, but also results in uncommon sounding language. In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature (The Raven, Jabberwocky, the lyrics of Yes, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rubaiyat, Hamlet, and Carl Sandburg's Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme.
When the number of letters in each word are written out, they form the first 3834 digits of pi.
One A Poem A Raven Midnights so dreary tired and weary, 3. 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5
While in this example each word is the same number of letters as the next digit of pi, some sections use words of more than ten letters as a one followed by another digit:
And fear overcame my being - the fear of "forevermore". 3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 11
where 11 represents two consecutive ones in pi.
Taking "A" as 1, "B" as 2, "C" as 3, etc., the name of the piece itself is based on pi, as "Cadaeic" is the first 7 digits of pi, when rounded.
C a d a e i c 3.1 4 1 5 9 3
