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Dec 2017
it happens to me all the time,
every time i mention roman numerals
i take to slacking off when using modern
numbers, that so resemble letters...
B, 8, I, 1, 3, E, S, 5, b, 6, 0, O,
              9, g, L, 7, 2, Z...
                  4 amputee john jr.,
          i am close to despair about
how numbers and letters have merged
in the latin graphic..
it's one way or the other,
either the number as letter:
       II + IV = VI -
the challenge of rewriting all, modern,
mathematical proofs using roman
numerals...
     man's greatest feat is not the fact
that he disappears,
it's that he erases what he uncovers,
and then disappears...
                         take this example on
the demand that it be a cautionary affair
of conscience: no. 9497

7  5  9  3  6  4  1  8  2
4  2  3  7  1  8  5  9  6
6  1  8  9  2  5  4  7  3
8  9  2  4  5  3  6  1  7
3  6  1  8  7  2  8  5  4
5  4  7  6  9  1  2  3  9
2  3  6  5  8  7  9  4  1
9  8  4  1  3  6  7  2  5
1  7  5  2  4  9  3  6  8

i made a mistake, yet i completed
the puzzle...
  
            which is why i mention
it, for it rarely happens...
          and it all began with the unravelling
of the numbed in bold
      (shh, one of the sevens)...

         i can only claim to have exploited
retaining roman artefacts of the psyche,
nothing more...
       architecture of such calibre would
still exist if letters and "numbers"
were almost Siamese -
but then the current mathematics couldn't,
wouldn't exist...
            
  yet the resurrected nature of
the Siam twins which makes letters
akin to numbers, in the ancient guise,
opposite of making numbers abstract
in the guise of letters...
  all the arabic squiggly bits in between...
duped by the feral creature,
nomad, camel herder...
  
                    i can't contain myself
being fascinated by: numbers as letters...
i prefer this adoration than
having to labour on my "jolly"
touristy feet to stand in the shadow
of the coliseum...
                      a piece of architecture
born from the hydra of I V X L C D M...
only a greek could have been
so obvious in a book of
"revelation": that doesn't actually
reveal much...
                  but the proximity
of letters to numbers being "slightly"
adjusted, the beast from the sea
gave rise to the beast from the earth...
a modern numerical alphabet came
from 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9,
i.e.: O I Z E R S b Γ B P...
notably, with that year "0" of yours...
i thought i'd insert gamma and the many
mirrors, it takes to refine
numbers with the current letters,
the ever present letters...
             if the greeks can keep
their joke for two thousand years,
how strong is the Torjan
interpretation, done by no 4, not twelve,
but by one man?
               obviously there are
refinements to the letters to make numbers,
and there's the one greek letter,
and there's also the Bb debacle...
mirror mirror, the gamma could have
been an L...
         in a language that sings,
and has no actual name for any letter...
  imagine to write something
as simple as
          2 + 3 + 4 + 1....
Z + E + R + I...
        "alphabetically" speaking how
would that look?
                      IZER?
               well, if we're going to waste
the point of language on games,
akin to crosswords...
              why not waste our engagement
with language, on games akin
to this one?!
Mateuš Conrad
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Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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