two-and-two-makes-four

Updated: May 4, 2025

The poet Longfellow or was it Confucius, the inventor of wisdom? remarked: "Life is real, life is earnest; And things are not what they seem." As mathematics are or is: thanks, old subscriber! the only just rule by which questions of life can be measured, let us, by all means, adjust our theme to the straight edge and the balanced column of the great goddess Two-and-Two-Makes-Four.

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