numeration-table

Updated: May 15, 2025

She says it forward; she says it backward; she begins at the middle and goes up; she begins at the middle and goes down; she rattles it through in French, she groans it through in German, she falters it through in Greek. She attempts the numeration-table, flounders somewhere in the quadrillions, and forgets where she left off.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Men, Women, and Ghosts