Re: numbers (was: Synaesthesia)

Why, Hello, Aidan, the gourmet! <G>  I still have to get those other recipes
up in Teonaht!  There's another Tyzwya, and several "layers" and soups and
sauces.  There's a new greens stew.

Zero is white, neuter, and a big fat nothing.  One is black, and he faces to
the left towards zero, without seeing it.  He's solitary, and cares for no
one.  Two is light blue, and kneeling.  She is a nun, deep in her prayers.
Three is a blousy, talkative, yellow lady who is shouting over Two's bent
shoulder at One.  Four is purple, dapper, pointy nosed, mysterious, and is
looking at Three.  Five has two faces.  He/She is ambisexual: if she is
facing towards Six, then she's saying something sarcastic, her round cheek
coming up and pushing her eyes up in a malicious smile.  If Five is facing
Four, than he is angry at him, his mouth dropping down to denounce him, his
hair flying straight back from him.  Six is deep-red and submissive, bowing
her shoulders away from Five's harangue.  Seven is magenta, magnificent and
confident.  She faces Five defiantly.  Eight is a curvacious woman dressed
in pale yellow.  She faces us squarely, elbows akimbo.  Nine is a gangster,
dressed in a green suit, bowing unctiously towards Eight who ignores him.
Ten is a businessman dressed in tan and carrying a briefcase, walking
steadily towards us.  Eleven is on a ledge, down from Ten.  She is a young
girl dressed in grey, but quietly mysterious.  Twelve shares the ledge with
her, and is a young boy, combining the colors of Three, Four, and Six in a
patchwork cloak.  Thirteen is down on in a valley, looking up at Eleven and
Twelve and their innocence.  She is a smoker, a fucker, and a trouble-maker,
and she's gold.  That's as far as it goes.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Aidan Grey" <grey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: numbers (was: Synaesthesia)


> Quoting Sally Caves <scaves@...>:
> >
> > For me, all the numbers have colors.  And personalities.  And directions
> > they face, and interaction with other numbers.  This helped me with
> > arithmatic and multiplication.
>
>    Heya sally! If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to get some of these details
from
> you, for 1 through 9. I know they're personal, but sometimes "universals"
sneak
> in there and could be useful to the more mystically inclined of us...
>
>   Aidan
>
>

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