CANTO ONE: "slain/By"

charles albert calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Thu Jul 24 11:57:58 CDT 2003


Cgnsider that one of the many names of Jack Grey is Degree, and also gradus
(grad is swedish for degree).

Now think back to the Zembla excerpt from Pope.....

love,
cfa



> This is a pretty cool exercise, guys.  I, for one, have a problem with
1881
> suggesting "life" only because the time between the two "walls" of birth
and
> death are hardly infinity (much less infinity doubled/squared!).  But 131
> has more of a suggestion of "life" to me because that there 3 is
> significantly less than 8 (i.e. infinity).  Further, the visual aspect of
a
> 3 has an unfinished quality to it compared to the infinite cyclicality of
an
> 8.
>
> Who said studying literature doesn't involve numbers?
>
> Tim
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> > Jasper, this is wonderful. [snip great MJ stuff] >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>  [and snip great Jasper stuff]
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