Taking Names, Giving Numbers I was reading a book and fell down a hole surrounded by high weeds, distracted finding myself in an etiquette class, all of us being taught to recite its myriad rules each of us from different starts carousel fashion having joined at odd times, when a thought pulled itself up in my face that all names offend and should be replaced by numbers mother’d be one, father three, liar five, using primes for basic concepts, earth would be seven, food would be four, violating the prime number rule, tax return would be 347A for individual, 347B for partnership and 347C for corporate, death would be 0.
Gene Goldfarb
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