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- From: billbill@wetware.com (Bill Bill)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: sliding numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.050507.1441@wetware.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 05:05:07 GMT
- Followup-To: misc.test
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- my house is a sliding numbers puzzle.
- to get into the kitchen, i have to shift
- three boxes in the bathroom closet.
- to finish reading a book, i must lift
- seven bags, place them in the refrigerator,
- and unfold a chair from under the mattress.
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- there's always an empty spot somewhere that i
- can slide a foot or a number, so my location
- can gradually change. i can't say the place is
- small, though, since any fractal region
- examined closely has an infinite boundary.
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- i want to live in a spherical house with
- complete graph connections. to go from the
- kitchen sink to the guitar, i hop on the
- tram that runs straight (Euclidean/Newtonian)
- between them. to go from the guitar to the
- blue silk shirt in the closet, i hop on
- the little tram specific to those two points.
- a spider would get lost in my routes,
- but *I* would be able to go my myriad ways.
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- bill bill @ wetware. com
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