| My Birthday Jumble |
[05 Sep 2003|12:24pm] |
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Harem Man // Jeff Buckley |
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- = 3 x 7
- = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6
A triangular number.
- 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...
A Fibonacci number.
- The total number of spots on a normal die.
- Formerly the legal coming-of-age when you received the `key of the door'.
- A game of table tennis is won by the first player reaching 21 points.
- We live in the twenty-first century.
- A twenty-one gun salute is fired in the UK for royalty and in the US for the President. It comes from the time when the largest ships of the British navy had 21 guns along one side.
- Twenty-one is a card game which is also known as Pontoon or Vingt-et-un. Its object is to have a total score in one's hand nearest to, but not exceeding, 21.
Counting The Years
Where blood is a rock too big to understand. Ball of the foot. Or your fist, that jellyroll of sorrow. This is the eviction notice. The body's overflow. Someone says: there now, there now, there, But the blood is biting, it's biting through. You're trying to say...But there now. Go easy. Spit on your shoe. It's what you know that resists you. Even after all these years. Stray bone in your throat. A ring of keys at the waist. All these sons and daugters, blindworms or seaware. Something that's in your eyes, making them open and shut.
- Anne Marie Macari
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