I think I may have blogged about this before, but all too often when I am reading books -- even books I am enjoying like my current one, Tana French's The Searcher, my brain is obsessively looking at the page number I'm on and calculating where I am in the book. This book troubles my brain in particular because it has 450 pages, so 2 x 3 x 3 x 5 x 5 (I'll be damned if I know how to write exponents in HTML). So many ways to divide almost every page! The whole project of reading the book devolves into something straight out of Zeno's paradoxes where each little step yields a fresh new number and opportunity to calculate, challenging my ability to move forward.
Of course I strongly identify with the Count.
It's enough to make me wonder whether, given that I am in finance, I ought to stop spending time on DuoLingo learning languages and switch over to Khan Academy and embrace math wholeheartedly.
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