The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[Robin Landseadel]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Great Quail wrote:
> I do not mean to sound like a snob! I just find most written erotica  
> to
> be formulaic and tedious. Now, the bit where Cyprian serves as a
> go-between, well, that's *interesting.*

I wondered if this scene was supposed to be a representation of the a  
sexual act as the topology of a Quaternion surface in motion:  taking  
the Kama Sutra to an extreme next step, so to speak, and much in  
concordance with

	"Of course not, it's in code, isn't it, said Bevis. "Fiendish code, I
	might add. Right off I noticed it uses both Old and New Style
	alphabets---quite pleased with myself until twigging that each
	letter in this alphabet also has it's own numerical value, what
	was known among ancient Jewish students of the Torah as
	'gematria.' So, as if there wasn't quite enough threat to the old
	mental balance already, the message must now be taken also
	as a series of digits, wherewith readers may discover in the text
	at hand certain hidden messages by adding together the
	number-values of the letters in a group, substituting other
	groups of the same value, so generatting another, covert
	message. Furthermore this particular gematria doesn't stop at
	simple addition."

	"Oh, dear. What else?"

	"Raising to powers, calculating logarithms, converting strings of
	characters to terms of a series and finding the limits they
	converge to, and---I say Latewood, if you could see the look on 	
	your face. . . ."

	"Feel free, please. As there's little enough hysterical giggling
	out here, why we must snatch it wheree'er find it, mustn't we."

	"Not to mention field-coefficients, eigen values, metric tensors----"
	Against the Day, page 799