Past Changes and Future Dreams
HOLY MOLY
I feel like Michael the Traveler! I keep blasting through worlds, and I barely have enough time to adjust to the last before I'm thrown into yet another new one! Perhaps that's the lesson I'm exploring as I write about that boy: the world around him changes, and all he can do is learn to embrace it and learn to control himself.
The world is changing — and it's terrifying.
What's even more terrifying, however, is the pervasive perspective that nothing has changed. It has been said many different ways by many different people, but it was said at least one way by George Santayana:
"Mixed-up Magic" seems like a cute, little, rhyming book. The "Multiplying Jar," however, is an eery, beautiful mix of art and math! What what! What! A treasure! An unexpected diamond!
It starts off with one island on the sea. Then, "on the island there were 2 countries." It continues with 3 mountains per country, 4 walled kingdoms per mountain, 5 villages per walled kingdom.
And so on and so forth.
The second half of the book just explains factorials. Can I tell you?! This is yet another dream of mine: to create compelling literature that also shows math realities! I've been dreaming of "The Knights of Arithmetic and the Dividing Dragon" — or something like that. I dream! I dream! What do I do with all these dreams?!
I have to pursue them I suppose.
I feel like Michael the Traveler! I keep blasting through worlds, and I barely have enough time to adjust to the last before I'm thrown into yet another new one! Perhaps that's the lesson I'm exploring as I write about that boy: the world around him changes, and all he can do is learn to embrace it and learn to control himself.
The world is changing — and it's terrifying.
What's even more terrifying, however, is the pervasive perspective that nothing has changed. It has been said many different ways by many different people, but it was said at least one way by George Santayana:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.Fun fact: I was at Starbucks, but I had to go to the library because I couldn't concentrate, and they were giving away free books! I acquired "Mixed-up Magic" by Joanna Cole and "Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar" by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno!
"Mixed-up Magic" seems like a cute, little, rhyming book. The "Multiplying Jar," however, is an eery, beautiful mix of art and math! What what! What! A treasure! An unexpected diamond!
It starts off with one island on the sea. Then, "on the island there were 2 countries." It continues with 3 mountains per country, 4 walled kingdoms per mountain, 5 villages per walled kingdom.
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| In each village there were 6 houses. |
The second half of the book just explains factorials. Can I tell you?! This is yet another dream of mine: to create compelling literature that also shows math realities! I've been dreaming of "The Knights of Arithmetic and the Dividing Dragon" — or something like that. I dream! I dream! What do I do with all these dreams?!
I have to pursue them I suppose.
A million dreams is all it's gonna take!
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