re: #735 iceweasel

As with the primacy of the number 0, we see in geometry that the fundamental figure is a point. And what is a point but yet another iteration of the circle-shape? Like the great Goddess, infinitely divisible yet always herself, inviolable no matter what shape-rape may be committed.

I hope you’ll consider reworking the Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics. See how the dot is cruelly portrayed as ‘fickle’ and shallow!

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And shouldn’t semiologists change their name as well? Phallocentrism continues to stain the sheets, and the Gap dresses, of us all.

If the baby had slept more today, I could go into much detail (learned from a couple of Freudian supervisors through the years-you have to talk the talk even if you’re a cognitive-behaviorist if you want to get good recommendations) about how 0 looks like a breast and symbolizes the Oedipal fixations of mathematicians.