This is my fourth post today in the last two hours! I can't stop! Gaaah! I even ran out of stuff to talk about!
Well, there is that... but do I really want to bring that up?
Nah.
"1984" by George Orwell has got to be the greatest sci-fi book of all time. Earlier this week, Gabby brought a copy to school and near the end of breakfast, I not-so-subtlely grabbed the book and opened it to the first page. Awesomeness reigns supreme. The concepts, the plot, the stuff with O'Brien...spoliers! "Big Brother is Watching You.", the concept of Newspeak. You know, I use Newspeak.
It's a word I call mindsee. It also has extensions, "sciencesee", "mathsee", "wordsee", and their relative extensions. And no, Rodney, there is no "foreign-language-see", okay? It's too easy, and the rules of mindsee don't apply to it. You know you possess a particular mindsee if you can hear an explanation of a certain thing once and bam! you get it. My Biology teacher once referred to this as "*snap* Math." I possess sciencesee. I love science. Cracking the universe? Yeah, that's awesome! My mom has mathsee. Sure, everyone knows their eights and nines. I know my twelves off the top of my head up to 12*6 and 100/8 (12.5, by the way). My mom knows her 17's. I just asked her what 17*17 was, and in less than 10 seconds she told me it was 289, and she was right. Shakespeare had wordsee. Wordsee works different than the other mindsee's, in that words are very simple, compared to science and math. Wordsee involves using words brilliantly and perfectly, in intriguing ways, and make a compelling story when put together in the right order. All writers have wordsee to some degree.
Well, I'm out.
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