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Only 60% of the UK-voters bothered to turn up at a polling station. Now I don’t know how difficult voting is in the UK, maybe you need to walk 25 kilometers to the nearest polling station, through hailstorms, beset by rabid dogs all along the way, only to solve the Riemann hypothesis before you are allowed to vote.
But bleeding hell, if you can’t find something to vote for (and I get that, had the same issue myself a few elections), at least vote against the worst option.
Liz Truss and Rees-Mog lost their seats. The dreams of sunlight uplands and Singapore on the Thames scattered so quickly. Only despair and stagnation awaits.
I’m so in love with the idea of coming up with harmonies from divisor sets of numbers, I wish I had read about this earlier. My friend and I have this project where certain temporal elements of it should have an unmarked ending, and for this reason I’ve been composing a piece with a circular structure where it oscillates between two themes where one is the inverse of the other. And this ends only when you stop it.
Then I looked into this thought of representing harmonies as divisor sets of numbers, and there would have been so many ideas there. If you don’t know what amicable numbers are, they’re numbers where the sum of the divisors of a number, excluding the number itself, equal another number, and the sum of the divisors of that other number equal the original one. The smallest and the most famous ones are 220 and 284. 1+2+4+5+10+11+20+22+44+55+110=284, and 1+2+4+71+142=220.
Working off of the harmonies of 220 and 284 (or another pair of such numbers) would have been so fitting, because the ”aliquot sequence” of them goes forever between the two. Just like my two themes are supposed to. But I’ve already completed like 40% if it, and there is too much ideas I like there to throw away.