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how far?


i spend all
day holed up
making
calculations. after 
doing it for so 
long, you 
begin to notice
that you can
plug in all the right
numbers for the
formula,
 
but it doesn't necessarily mean 
that you'll always 
get a good 
answer, or 
that you'll 
even get 
one at all.
a word problem fully
demonstrates this
demarcation:
 
 
if in ten
years' time,
i'm typing out memos in
some corporate function
and making math from
seven figures for the 
account of 
mr. jack-in-giant's-
house (and his
children's-children's
children),
 
how far
have
i gotten?
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damien.wren.

i'm not anybody. i don't like capitalization. but i do like Camus and Bukowski.

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