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Variation on a Shifting themes

by mwp (Hermit)
on Aug 08, 2000 at 11:20 UTC ( [id://26745]=poem: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

The fading ties
or
Variation on a Shifting themes

#--------------------------# our @emotion = qw( love shame hurt blame ); our @devotion = qw( ropes pain locks chains ); tie $me, 'Up', \@emotion; tie $you, 'Down', \@devotion; tie $us, 'Together', [\($me, $you)]; package Together; sub TIESCALAR { our($heart,$soul) = @_; return bless $soul, $heart } sub FETCH { return ${ shift @{ +shift } } } package Up; sub TIESCALAR { our($heart,$emotion) = @_; return bless $emotion, $heart } sub FETCH { return shift @{ +shift } } package Down; sub TIESCALAR { our($soul,$devotion) = @_; return bless $devotion, $soul } sub FETCH { return shift @{ +shift } } #--------------------------# package main; print <<FADE; even $you are not able to keep $me away because for $us, there is but one cure it comes not from $me and not from $you but if $you fall away will I still be bound by $us? FADE

Author's Note:

There are three poems here. First, the actual Perl code itself is to be read as a poem. It integrates well with the bottom half, but there is a sharp transition in which the message takes a turn for the bitter. The second poem is the FADE print block, in which a negatively-connoted love letter is conveyed. The third poem takes the first two and outputs the sum, being a positively-connoted love letter. Originally, a fourth poem was woven around the first two via comment blocks. I removed it because three is enough!

This is a variation of the proposed changes (via an implementation of tie) to Shifting themes by osfameron. Otherwise, this entire work is original, albeit a tad redundant. :-)

Alakaboo

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RE: Variation on a Shifting themes
by Adam (Vicar) on Aug 28, 2000 at 22:10 UTC
    This is really cool.

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