The Language of Flowers is an emblematic mapping of flowers onto "sentiments"
(whether single-word emotions or descriptions of emotional complexes) which,
according to the author, expounds the meaning of flowers and their internal
textual poetry. Since this text structures itself as a sort of systematic
dictionary, in which flowers are directly matched with sentiments in one-to-one
correspondence, the organization may be crossed and utilised beyond the simple
deployment of flowers as supplementary within a narrative. Keep in mind that
there are over 1000 editions of The Language of Flowers which may include more
or fewer flowers. Some possibilities utilising the Milner & Sowerby edition
from 1862:
V1 -- A Word Becomes Emotion
A word, name, or sentence may be transformed into a sequence of "sentiments" as
follows: Choose a word, name, sentence, or sequence of letters. For each letter
in the name, word, etc... look up the corresponding flower in The Language of
Flowers. If there are multiple flowers slotted under said letter, which there
usually are, use the next letter to further specify. If there are multiple
flowers slotted under said double letter combination, use the position of your
letter to specify which flower to choose. If your letter combination does not
appear, choose the previous letter combination. Once you have completed this
process for each letter in the word, name, etc... you may utilise this sequence
in further operations. Some possibilities could include: the choreography of a
conversation, direct transcoding of the sentiment sequence as a poem,
subjection to expansion-by-tautogram, combination through Mathews' Algorithm,
etc...
Deeply interesting, You freeze me, Voraciousness, Poor but happy, Frugality, Fidelity/Remembrance
V2 -- A Bouquet Is Decoded
A bouquet of flowers may be decoded into a complex of sentiments communicated
through matching each flower to its meaning in The Language of Flowers. This
could be utilised to construct narratives out of bouquets, choreograph a
conversation or narrative through "reading" the bouquet, etc...
