1, 2, 4, 8 and 16.25 unless I’m somehow miscounting due to jetlag…
Nope, you’re exactly right. The final line has more than 24 words.
Anyone want to tell him the fourth line isn’t twice as long as the 3rd?
It’s doubling the word count, not the physical length.
Fair. But if that’s the case, the last line is over budget with the last “f…”
And that’s why art is art.
there are 17 words if you also count the one that didn’t fit.
fucking fast fits neatly :)
compare to:
Oulipo (French pronunciation: [ulipo], short for French: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: “workshop of potential literature”, stylized OuLiPo) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques.
