Fwd: ATDTDA (18) ‘That is that of which I speak!’ (489-90)
Michael Lee Bailey
mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Wed Sep 19 23:37:39 CDT 2007
John Bailey wrote:
>Nigel and Neville. The 'two N's' - if 'n' is, mathematically, the basic >blank slate we use for an unknown number, is it impossible to employ two n's >in an equation that aren’t identical? Mathematically, I've no idea. Please >help.?>
you could use N sub 1 & N sub 2 -- like in the tv cartoon "Bananas in Pajamas" (a show I used to wake up to) where they call each other B1 and B2...
the bananas were somewhat Nigel- & Neville-y...
>scornfully describe him as the Cyprian Latewood of “Latewood’s Patent >Wallpapers? Surely not.”
couldn't help thinking of GR pg 25 "...the powdery wipe of Nothing's hand
across wallpaper awhisper with peacocks spreading their fans down deep lawns
to Georgian houses long ago..."
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