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heard of 33 and 1/3 degree masons?
They're slow.
Alice is mathematical
>The Caterpillar's warning, at the end of this scene, is perhaps one of the most telling clues to Dodgson's conservative mathematics, Bayley suggests. "Keep your temper," he announces. Alice presumes he's telling her not to get angry, but although he has been abrupt he has not been particularly irritable at this point, so it's a somewhat puzzling thing to say. But the word "temper" has another meaning of "the proportion in which qualities are mingled." So the Caterpillar could well be telling Alice to keep her body in proportion - no matter what her size. This may be another reflection of Dodgson's love of Euclidean geometry, where absolute magnitude doesn't matter: what's important is the ratio of one length to another. To survive in Wonderland, Alice must act like a Euclidean geometer, keeping her ratios constant, even if her size changes.
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_03_10.html
>scholars had started routinely using seemingly nonsensical concepts such as imaginary numbers – the square root of a negative number – which don’t represent physical quantities in the same way that whole numbers or fractions do. No Victorian embraced these new concepts wholeheartedly, and all struggled to find a philosophical framework that would accommodate them.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391-600-alices-adventures-in-algebra-wonderland-solved/
There is a weird story about Tallyrand setting up a fake rabbit hunt for Napolean
Have to fo look it up now and this is my undertaking to do so, though may not be tonight.
Probably nothing anyway.
NAPOLEON TALLEYRAND & RABBITS
The 48 Laws of Power
There's a MUCH better account - in Robert Callassos book - but this is curiouser enough for now.
The interpreations a little of. Nappy never trusted Talleyrand, why would you, Talleyrand's strength was that he knew what he was able to confer on government - legitimacy - was a symbolic effect not related to him personally but to his information history - the geometry of his relations to other players on the historical stage.
Talleyrand would make fun of Layfayette for example for riding up on a white horse at the "founding of the republic."