: a
calculating man
Poor
fellow creature!
attempting
to add up
what
was beyond calculation
(and
trying to make the balance
sum up
in his favor,)
figuring
irrational numbers
to
infinite digits
(a
strange tesselation of loss…)
Mental
math was never his forte.
It
should have worked out—
but in
this too-unbalanced equation
there
were missing signs of negativity
and
multiplications of error
in the
millions column.
What a poor sot indeed! My favorite line is "a strange tesselation of loss..."
ReplyDeleteUsing the word tesselation here conjures up an uncommon pattern of shiny, cold black subway tiles that make up the pattern of loss.