Modal Textualities is leveraging literary analysis of Big Pun's rhyme schemes to create modal texts with the finest self-similarity ratios and most precise syllable placement in American Letters.
Consonance + Assonance = [Echoes]
[Echoes] / Syllables = Self-Similarity
Self-Similarity Threshold (i.e. >.75) = Modal Text
This website is a repository for my Modal Texts.
Featured on the About Page is the short essay "Self Similarity in the Extended Line (w/ Reference to Big Pun)", which expands on that concept.
A list of PDFs can be found here.
I live on the Southside of Providence RI USA w/ my wife Tree and my impending son Nikolaos Enrique (Iglesias) Katsafanas.
Prior to going Modal Textual, I spent my teen years rapping in an avant-garde rap group (inSTEREOtype) and spearheaded a tanka poem screamo band called The Massachusetts Dept of Revenue.
Feel free to send me an email at 2gyroz [at] gmail or connect w/ me on Instagram.
This modal text is my official autobiography. Everything in this work is 100% accurate and basically reflects my exact experiences as a human being living on this circular planet we call “Earth.” At this time I’m unsure if Ben Shapiro has received eyebrow fillers or not. I’m not going to speculate on that right now. This isn’t the place for that. I used to get my eyebrows threaded fairly regularly and I feel like they actually reduced the girth of my brow over time. That’s all I can really say.
1st Edition Released: 3/13/2026 | Mode: >.75 | Syllabic Self-Similarity: 7565:8896 .850 | 125 pp.
Reimi and Buddy share what can only be deemed God-given honest opinions that they have every right to express on their trip to East Asia. Then Reimi and her sister Nikke take in an anonymous French Mannerist's painting. Finally, Reimi shares with Buddy a particularly noteworthy month-long dip into insanity her sister Nikke recently endured.
1st Edition Released: 12/24/25 | Mode: >.75 | Syllabic Self-Similarity: 12,393:15,330 .808 | 152 pp.
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Audio Excerpts
I.I to "West Wing politicians"
I.I to "reintroduction to fascism"
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NICHOLAS SYRIANUS KATSAFANAS
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