At bedtime last night, I was reading (in The Story of World) a Hindu creation myth. It said "Long, long ago, there was only one gigantic man who lived in the whole universe. His name was Purusha. He had a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, and a thousand feet."
Vincent commented that this meant he only had one eye on each head. "That's right!" I said.
Then Eddie commented that it wasn't necessarily so; he might have two eyes on some heads, and no eyes on other ones. "That's true, it could be like that," I conceded.
What smart and mathematically astute kids!
ReplyDeleteWhat i want to know, is if the feet are in pairs, and at the other side from the head, or if the heads and feet are scattered all over, so that he can run sort of like a ball rolling along.
And in the land of Boulder there dwells a great mathematician who has two great mathematician sons. And it is hard for them to get to sleep because of all the mathematics running around in their heads. And despite the lack of sleep they head happily into the ever after.
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