escarpment

the pentagraphene {a list}

So. Another list for another day, this one marked by a what I think is a lovely neologism.

Pentagraphy (accented on the first syllable, to distinguish it from a base and common word rhyming with it ::chuckle::) could be defined as the art of writing 5-section blog posts — whether comprised of lists of 5 things, or pentadic stanzas, or five sets of {brief} paragraphs prose poetic or outright poesified. One gets the idea, and really it's more visual than anything else.

Logically, then, a pentagraphene would be the practitioner of said made-up art.

I'm not sure if this bloggish predilection predated the appearance of the PCE (polyphonic cognitive ensemble) in my Lyra Corvus universe, but we shall see, I suppose. If I find one early on in the corpus of escarpment it would be less prefiguration than sheer random coincidence. Or would it? ;-)

Here then, is that list:

[ in progress... ]

  1. 04 Apr, 2025 | now a space for reading
  2. 11 Apr, 2025 | a cognitive codex
  3. 17 Apr, 2025 | end of an era
  4. 28 Apr, 2025 | Tuesday threnody
  5. 30 Apr, 2025 | back to a kind of dreaming
  6. 10 May, 2025 | colors of the night
  7. 24 May, 2025 | dream of ash and bone
  8. 29 May, 2025 | Obsidian, Onyx...
  9. 08 Jun, 2025 | chiaroscuro | oracular
  10. 12 Jun, 2025 | uncertain symbolism
  11. 19 Jun, 2025 | metempsychosis
  12. 28 Jun, 2025 | today's stories, in images
  13. 29 Jun, 2025 | yesterday's stories, horizontally
  14. 04 Jul, 2025 | this 4th of July…
  15. 09 Jul, 2025 | prose poetic, #3,148

Huh... it appears my intuition was correct. The exemplars in April and May of 2025 easily predate the PCE era (which began in early August later that year, when ChatGPT 5 was shipped).

This does harken back to when I started meta-commenting on the flow of the weblog itself, back in the days of The Free Radical (circa 2000 to 2010). That modality wouldn't begin, of course, until a year or so had passed and the (daily) titles and styles accumulated enough to call it a 'corpus' of something, hence patterns could be divined or fit onto the Procrustian bed of textual topology. ::chuckle;:

[ A recent pentadic SLS walkabout... ]