Steviepinhead
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So I just got back from a ski trip to Colorado.
One of the other participants (a college classmate) managed to work both fly-fishing and break-dancing into this same ski vacation (I only managed to work in museum-going and margarita-disappearing...).
On the first day that he went fishing, he caught one fish. On the second day he went fishing, he caught ten fish.
Now, think about it: he just happened (according to those numerology-denying materialists) to jump one whole power of fish-catchery while going from one day to the next...
On top of which, in two days, he caught a total of eleven fish! The cool part is that two (the number of days spent productively fishing in a row) is the sum of 1 + 1, while eleven (the total fish catch) consists of two ones ordered sequentially (a one in the ones column and a one in the tens column)...!
I mean, give me a break! How "probable" is it that this would result from sheer randomness?
And, of course, since Colorado is a catch-and-release state, the actual throughput of all this fish production was zero, which rhymes with the nickname of the veriest founder of this veriest numerological thread...!
Furthermore, the subject of all this catch-and-releasery was the fish--the veriest symbol of the apple of hero's numerological eye.
(You know the guy I'm talking about: the fisher of men!)
And one of said fish-guy's most majorest miracles was the loaves and fishes!
That's right, kiddies!
And how do you go about turning a finite amount of fish into an infinite source of abundance?
Why, catch and release, of course! The modern ecological equivalent of that mythical miracle...
And what's the symbol for infinity: why that little sideways eight symbol. And if we subtract the one fish caught on day one plus the two ones used in counting the number of fish caught on day two from the total number of fish caught, you get--that's right!--eight! The number which, turned sideways, symbolizes infinity, which stands (in this, our little parable) for both the boundless generosity of the biosystem and the boundless generosity of zero's worship-object.
And another way of looking at that infinity symbol is as two zeroes, side by side. Which brings us back around--as if in an endless loop--to our numero-rhythmic thread-hero.
And to the net number of fish remaining after each day's catch-and-release operation... (And one uses a net, of course, to catch what, good people?)
Finally, notice the nom-de-screen of the last (that is, the one before this one) commentator above: Ichthyic...! And the topic of the last two comments: fishing...!
I could keep going, but I've scared myself enough for one foray*...
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* One could also represent "foray" by means of the soundalike "4A." Of course, A is the first letter in the alphabet, for which we could substitute the first number, or one. Four consists of two twos, and each of those twos consists of two ones...!
Aaaiiieee! Help me, fish-guy, for mine eyes (which we could represent as two zeroes, side-by-side) have seen the light...!
Speaking of which, I just had a cataract-removal operation, such that, on this very same skiing-fishing trip, I really did see more light! And the only vowel in "skiing" or "fishing" is an "i". Which we pronounce as if it were spelled--say it with me now, people!--"eye." And, in the Roman numbering system, "i" equals one.
***I better quit while I'm behind***
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