UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS
William Lattimore was writing again;
another one of his tomes on mathematics
and history, sort of bundled together in
ways you'd not normally think of. Outside
the trailer, the chickens pecked by. I was
tempted to count them, but I didn't even
try. Things like that are but passing
phenomena only. Why bother?
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I can weather the storm, and I can
weather the heat, and the way I see it
those are two conjoining factors which
usually work in opposition, or maybe
it's 'apposition?' to each other. Once
again, why bother, and who cares?
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Some men are sticklers for grammar,
all the correct niceties - all those
correct tenses and phrases. To me,
it's but a varmint's curse, and for such
reasons does Lattimore write about
number first. He says it's way easier,
and he can forget all about grammar by
talking numbers and theory instead:
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Stuff no one understands, but pretends to.
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