Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Major reading

 I stopped and thought about when they brought up the idea of personifying numbers with characters. What an interesting idea! How do you connect number with these characters? What does that mean?

I stopped at 5 being a funny by accident woman, what a weird way to personify a number. Who is deciding these? When?

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