In my physics class, my teacher tells me to analyze my data points in order to linearize the function. He tells me to find a pattern in the points and to cube them, or take the square root, in order to plot the points in a straight line. If the graph isn't linear, he says, we can't understand what it represents. Our memories are like this too. In fact, every human is a mathematician of …showed first 75 words of 441 total…

…showed last 75 words of 441 total…flashes of image coughed up into the mouth of the conscious from the phlegm-filled throat of the subconscious. It can happen at any moment-that is why you will see me scribbling poetry on Papa Gino's napkins, dancing in the corridor when there is no music. Within the optic, the olfactory, the tactile, the audible, one has the essence of memory as drawn in through the senses - there is the reality that I have perceived.