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LEGO Bricks are the Order of the Universe

This is pretty profound.  It creeps me out to see these two paragraphs juxtaposed. 

The two paragraphs are perfect anagrams of each other. 

Atoms bombard the unplumable void, plunging like
silvery raindrops or drifting like twinkly hoarfrost;
and by coalescing (if kindred), they cause things to
appear, and by separating (if opposed), they cause
things to vanish - and from these interknit vectors,
objects interlock, forever becoming one prolific
universe, dinstinctive for its mild infinitude of forms.

Democritus - “The Great Order of the Universe”

Toy elements of this kind will be referred to gen-
erally as building bricks, and the principal object
of the invention is to provide improved coupling
means for clamping such building bricks together
in any desired relative position, thus providing for a
vast variety of combinations of the bricks for making
toy structures of many different kinds and shapes.

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen - “Patent #3,005,282”

NOTES/REFERENCES: “The Great Order of the Universe” (above) is a response to the 50th anniversary of the LEGO patent. Using a conceptual strategy reminiscent of Sol LeWitt, the image enumerates every possible way of combining two LEGO bricks, each with eight pegs: 25, good trivia. The caption consists of two texts: the first, a translated paragraph from a volume by Democritus; the second, a transcribed paragraph from the now infamous patent by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen.

SOURCE: Poetry (July/August 2009).

EDIT: There are many websites now posting this with glaring typos (“six pegs” - really?) and missing spaces between words; I guess proofreading/paraphrasing by ‘auto-reblogging services’ is flawed? :3