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When you clean something, then something else must become soiled.

Paul Uccelo, The Enigma of the Box.

3, 6, 9, 12 [1+2=3], 15 [1+5=6], 18 [1+8=9], 21 [2+1=3], 24 [2+4=6], 27 [2+7=9], 30 [3+0=3], 33 [3+3=6],

36 [3+6=9], 39 [3+9=12, 1+2=3], 42 [4+2=6], 45 [4+5=9], 48 [4+8=12, 1+2=3], 51 [5+1=6], 54 [5+4=9],

57 [5+7=12, 1+2=3], 60 [6+0=6], 63 [6+3=9], 66 [6+6=12, 1+2=3], 69 [6+9=15, 1+5=6], 72 [7+2=9],

75 [7+5=12, 1+2=3], 78 [7+8=15, 1+5=6], 81 [8+1=9], 84 [8+4=12, 1+2=3], 87 [8+7=15, 1+5=6],

90 [9+0=9], 93 [9+3=12, 1+2=3], 96 [9+6=15, 1+5=6], 99 [9+9=18, 1+8=9], 102 [1+0+2=3], 105 [1+0+5=6], 108 [1+0+8=9], …

Myron Dowsie, Voice of Numbers.

“Just what I need,” cried Mr. Jackson. “Another object.”

Hollis Beddoes, Counting the Magpies.

I’ve got spangles.

And I’ve got bangles.

And a brand new shovel in me shed.

I have tangles, sir, and dangles, sir.

And thoughts—four and twenty—in me head.

E. E. Bynum, A Thump upon the Head (and Other Poems).

“I do like that style of high-heels, though. Very much.”

“We do not need to hear about your preferences, John. Not at this time.”

Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.

“She was strangely convinced that the cement brick—as an art material—was ‘owned’ by a close friend of hers. So, only he could use them. And no one else should even consider it. I accomplished exactly nothing by pointing out that cement bricks were ordinary construction products and had already been used by dozens of artists, and in a variety of ways.”

Nicholas Bruhns, Otto the Magpie.

And now considering the interval of “9”: 9, 18 [1+8=9], 27 [2+7=9], 36 [3+6=9], 45 [4+5=9], 54 [5+4=9], 63 [6+3=9], 72 [7+2=9], 81 [8+1=9], 90 [9+0=9], 99 [9+9=18, 1+8=9], 108 [1+0+8=9], 117 [1+1+7=9], 126 [1+2+6=9], …

Myron Dowsie, Voice of Numbers.

The website offered access to “100 million songs”. But Albert wanted to know how many of them had been written by music-industry giant Paul Simon.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

Upon changing the interval of “3” to an interval of “6” we obtain similar results: 6, 12 [1+2=3], 18 [1+8=9], 24 [2+4=6], 30 [3+0=3], 36 [3+6=9], 42 [4+2=6], 48 [4+8=12, 1+2=3], 54 [5+4=9], 60 [6+0=6], 66 [6+6=12, 1+2=3], 72 [7+2=9], 78 [7+8=15, 1+5=6], 84 [8+4=12, 1+2=3], 90 [9+0=9] 96 [9+6=15, 1+5=6], 102 [1+0+2=3], 108 [1+0+8=9], 114 [1+1+4=6], 120 [1+2+0=3]…

Myron Dowsie, Voice of Numbers.

The thing to remember is that the model—any model—always leaves out almost everything.

Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.