THE MEDIUM

depends on the connected parts.....and the relativity of perspective, doesn't it?  

"THE SOUNDS of SILVER": Some years ago, I was guest at the charity opening of an opulent New York antiques show. I found myself tapped as the unofficial tour guide for a group of the more than mildly affluent, dressed in "Manhattan Smart Casual" lest they arouse too much attention. As since the dawn of civilization, the dealers smelled potential, eyeing us like bears during a salmon run. We moved from booth to booth; the treasures of ages splayed before us by merchants in full obsequious flower. A celebrated procuror from "the Old South" invited us into his lair. He specialized in ornate association items; objects once possessed by one of the numbered Louis of France, their mistresses, or other unmentionables among the great and infamous of epochs past. As if preparing for a seance, our little coven was gently seated at an elaborately decorated marquetry table, purportedly from the boudoir of Napoleon III. With a flourish, our host produced his...

Well, the symbols change every time you click to throw you off, but simply represent the relationship described in an equation and... It would appear that where x and y are real integers between 0 and 9 inclusive, (x * 10^1 + y * 10^0) - (x+y) = 9x, because, well, 9x = 9x. So, I guess they don't actually have to be integers or within any particular range, as this is a tautology. The only possible answers in the list from 0 to 99 are the multiples of nine:   0, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, and 99 You'll always get a symbol next to one of these numbers, and the same symbol is always next to all of these numbers, but the particular symbol changes every round. If a person keeps guessing random numbers, they might never realize they were getting only multiples of nine, or that the symbols were constantly changing, as they'd likely keep jumping all over the list.   but that's not quite right, is it? the highest number you could possibly get on the list is 99 - 18, o...

I had a labyrinthine, abstract dream....last night....it seemed to last for hours.....Yet, when I awakened and noticed....viewing the clock....that I had 'slipped' into a slumber, filled with 'Dreaming'......The complex dream is now 'jotted down' so that I won't forget it......to be 'made' into some short story or poem....illustrated with abstract, 'automatic drawing'......white on black.......the drawings were done with a 'OOO' tip.....even smaller than depicted, above.......then, 'magnified'.... .

Each of us, in intimate self-contemplation, thinks himself unique, singular, knowing and right; yet, we congregate like lemmings, who...like dragon lizards.....inflate this part or that or this thought or another....in conjunction with our not-so-particular genetic proclivities.....that we might be 'viewed', with some focus of intentions, toward our presentation...as worthy of the spotlights and microphones......scripted with the moment's words and postures..... Yet, there is little variation....for variation produces long-range Change..... impatient, we may be, but remember....it took a billion years for us to leave the primordial swamps... just to walk on our back fins, drop our gill slits and flare our nostrils, you know..... And now, we can even 'read' and 'write' and develop rudimentary logic circuits to analyze the rhetoric and constructs of other humans...... But, we are still 'naming', then 'name-calling', then locking horns, fins,...