6416 - Exercises with flowers

N. Lygeros
Translation: Paola Vagioni

– Exercise 1: How many flowers does the garden have?
– I don’t know.
– Thus you will pay attention to it.
– When I will be counting them?
– When you will be noticing them.
– What is the second exercise?
– How many petals does each flower have?
– Would I have to cut them?
– Of course not.
– Great, because I like them…And I don’t want to hurt them.
– Since centuries nature is making them petals but who pays attention?
– Those who put exercises with flowers!
– Who else?
– I don’t know.
– The little prince.
– With the roses?
– Him!
– I thought it was a fairy tale…
– So the grown ups say…
– And it isn’t?
– Read the preface first.
-The preface?
– Or rather the dedication.
– I read it now. I have no words.
– The silence is enough. Listen to the music of silence…
– But how?
– With the Fibonacci sequence…
– Meaning?
– Write down two times 1.
– 1, 1.
– And now add the last two numbers that you write.
-1, 1, 2, 3…
– Continue…
– 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, should I continue?
–  Until the roses.
–  The roses?
– They don’t always have 30 petals…
– Really? I wanted to say… 34.
– And then?
– 55, 89…
– There are the daisies as well…
– Before or after?
– Will you count?
– And the cyclamens?
– “Il faut cultiver son jardin !”
– Voltaire was saying it!
– Himself.
– How Candide I am!