Chapter 4: The Golden Ratio
While Isaac was experiencing a plethora of emotions in the shed, Billy and his troupe watched intently, hoping to hear echoes of a possible mating ritual.
"Oi Phillip how is it that a dimwit like Isaac gets a bonny lass like that?" Billy was fuming with envy.
"Hush, Billy. I'm trying to listen" Phillip snapped back at him. With every passing moment, the group got increasingly anxious. However, a few minutes later, they heard the grumpy farmer yelling. The shed door swung pen and a gorgeous brunette walked out, leaving the door open. They stared at her, totally mesmerized by her form. A moment later, Isaac walked out, looking perplexed. The group jumped out of their hiding place and ran up to him. Billy took the opportunity to push him from behind.
"Take that, ye vermin!" he screamed in sheer rage. "Stop it, Billy. The lad has some answering to do" Joe interrupted before Billy could go at him again. Isaac got back on his feet, confounded by Billy's behavior.
"Alright scum. What witchcraft did you do to make that lass fall into your lap?" Phillip asked. "I didn't do anything! She just asked me if I liked her curves so I described them in detail." Isaac replied. The crowd broke into whispers after hearing this. "We might have something to learn from this prat after all." Tom chimed in. Some agreed to this. Some were still not sure what to do. All of them wanted to feel the soft touch of a feminine form and to say goodbye to their innocence once and for all. Billy realized there was going to be a falling out. Or, even worse, Isaac might take his place. "Keep it together lads! Let's leave this scum for now" he shouted as Tom helped Isaac get back up on his feet. Unable to decide anything, the group headed back, with Billy at the helm.
Isaac tried to make sense of the whole situation as he headed back home. First, the girl. Agreed, she was beautiful. And so were her curves. What would she show him in the next "lesson"? Second, Billy's gang. Why were they furious? And what did they think was happening in the shed? People in general were very confusing; that's the realization he came to. Their behavior couldn't be predicted, and there was nothing rational about their thought process. In a certain sense, they were close to the very animals they labeled as being "wild". Despite having the ability to expand on their scientific knowledge, they chose to remain ignorant and lead foolish lives. Or so he thought. Upon reaching his home, he went to his room and lit the candle on the desk. He decided to sketch the curvaceous form he saw in the bath and analyze every detail.
He split the page into three sections: the front, rear and side view. He went about the task, jotting down everything he remembered on the parchment. Whilst drawing the side view, he realized something; he opened a drawer and scrambled through some of his old sketches. There it was, in all its glory. The shape of a snail's shell he had drawn a few weeks ago. Comparing that to the side view of the girl's curvy posterior, he concluded that he was right all along. There was a relation between the two shapes. Both were curved at the same angle, and the spirals coincided with the curves. They were a perfect fit, with the same curvature and angular deviation. Isaac still wasn't sure what to name his discovery. Or was there any existing documentation of this somewhere in the outside world?
Little did he know that he had just stumbled upon the Golden Ratio.