Math is turning bad
“Psst, c’mere,” said the shifty-eyed man wearing a long black trenchcoat, as he beckoned me off the rainy street into a damp dark alley. I followed.
“What are you selling?” I asked.
“Geometrical algebra drugs.”
“Huh!?”
“Geometry drugs. Ya got your uppers, your downers, your sidewaysers, your inside-outers…”
“Stop right there,” I interrupted. “I’ve never heard of inside-outers.”
“Oh, man, you’ll love ’em. Makes you feel like M. C. ever-lovin’ Escher on a particularly weird day.”
“Go on…”
“OK, your inside-outers, your arbitrary bilinear mappers, and here, heh, here are the best ones,” he said, pulling out a large clear bottle of orange pills.
“What are those, then?” I asked.
“Givens transformers. They’ll rotate you about more planes than you even knew existed.”
“Sounds gross. What about those bilinear mappers?”
“There’s a whole variety of them. Here’s one you’ll love – they call it ‘One Over Z’ on the street. Take one of these little bad boys and you’ll be on speaking terms with the Point at Infinity.”
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