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The blueprint to my latest ink:‘…The question, Just what is a language? was a little more tricky to workout. In the course of her workings out, Anna had come to the conclusion that in the realm of numbers there was one number which was far more important than other number. This was the number 1 important because any other number could be made up by adding sufficient numbers of ones. True, there was a tricky way out.You could, of course, use signs like 5 or 37 or 574 instead of saying, “One plus one plus one plus one,” etc. This method merely saved you time; it didn’t alter the argument that 1 was the most important number. Like numbers, words also had a most important word and this word, naturally enough, was God. Anna saw the “most important number 1” as the apex of a triangle only her triangle was standing on that apex! Number 1 had to bear the weight of all the other numbers.Words were different. Words seemed to stand on piles of other words. These other words served the purpose of explaining the use and the meaning of the word on the top. The word ‘God’ stood on the top of the pile that contained all the other words, and somehow or other you were expected to climb to the top of this pile to understand the meaning of the word God. This was a daunting idea. The Bible, the Church, the Sunday school were all busy building this colossal mountain of words and it was doubtful if anyone could climb to the top of such a pile.Fortunately, good old Mister God had, in his wisdom, already solved the problem for us. The solution of the problem did not lie with words but with numbers. The number 1 bore the weight of all the other numbers, so it must be wrong to expect words to bear the weight of the meaning of the word God. No! It must be that God is the word that bears the weight of all the other words. So the pyramid idea of words with God on the top is wrong side up; so turn it upside down.That’s better. Now the whole pyramid of words is standing on its apex like the numbers. The apex of the word pyramid is God, and that must be right because now the word God carries the weight and meaning of all the other words. Anna showed me her workings out. One sheet contained an upside-down triangle standing on the point labeled 1 this was the numbers triangle. One sheet showed a triangle standing on the point labeled GOD, and the last sheet in the shoe box showed a triangle standing on the point marked ANNA!”Ha,” I said, “you’ve got a triangle all to yourself, I see!”“No. Everybody has got one.”“Oh. What’s it mean then?”“It’s for when I die and Mister God asks me all them questions.”“What about it?”“Well, I’ve got to answer them all by myself. Nobody can do it for me.”“I see, but what does the triangle mean?”“That I have got to be “”Responsible?” I suggested.”Yes, responsible.”“Yes, I see. You mean you’ve got to bear all the weight like those other triangles do?”“Yes, of the things I’ve done and the things I’ve thought.”Each word was underlined with a nod of satisfaction. She left me in the silence of her full stop. It took a little time for all this to sink in, but it was true. We’ve all got to bear the weight of our own actions. We’ve all got to be responsible either now or later. We’ve got to answer Mister God’s questions all by ourselves…’

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"I can’t wait to kiss my boyfriend again!!!!!!!!!"

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9 months ago

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Awesome doesn’t age… and that’s why I don’t fret about how they’ll look when I get older :) 
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Marchesa Spring 2013 -> AH-MAZE-BALLS