IT'S PUNCTUATION, JIM. BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT.

THE STORY OF ZIPPO SIX

Formerly, there was an artist known as Six. Six didn't think about his enumeration too much until looking in the mirror one day. Six, no longer a mere decimal, had grown into numeralhood. Six had a hypercomplex feeling about the converse image peering back in the mirror. It produced a sense of negativity. The reflection looked pointedly angry and mean, the kind of numeral that others wouldn't want to kern closely to, a reversal of Six's self image. It gave Six a terrible case of Gauss.

Upon looking back, the larger Six became, the farther away other numerals kerned. Six didn't understand but came to realize that most other numbers were too distant for a close relationship. Six's earliest recollections had been of feeling odd about being a decimal place among whole numbers. Six didn't feel real or natural. Was that irrational or imaginary? Six felt infinitely out of sorts and could not remember ever knowing inclusion. Six became even more uncomfortable when realizing that one linear childhood fear was of the relational operator, Seven. It wasn't completely clear until Six became recursive: At a very early age Six remembered: Seven Eight Nine!! That made Six's spines stand on end. Six was decimated and felt vectorized! It equated it to a googol transposing Six's grave! But it was only an arbitrary function field analogy.

Still, Six belonged to no proper subset and felt semiprime, infinitely zero. Then, one day, Six met the elegant Nine! Nine was no ordinal number! Six felt re-enumerated, even exponentiated! Nine gave Six a logarithm, an extension. Six had a function, a base, a prime factor to live! Six could only think about multiplying with Nine for a product in bijective numeration! But there was a difference between Six and Nine, one that almost hexed a binary relationship. Six wanted a closed field with Nine, but Nine just wanted to trig with Six. Nine wanted a polynomial relationship. Six wanted Nine to be a chained notation and felt divided. Six wanted to sum in Nine and make Nine sum two. Six wanted to be singular with Nine's positional system, a cardinal mistake since Nine was binomial.

One day, while they were Turing together, Nine told Six about a sets-change operation. She was an XY. Nine was transcendental! Six felt like a residue numeral system. Six considered having been Fibonaccied to, but knew that was not the real Nine's sequence! Nine was not that Golden Mean! But Six desperately wanted to make Cuipu with Nine, despite Nine's serial transivity. Six had a number theory. It didn't matter if Nine was quadratic, just look at their geometry when they were serialized! A perfect fit! Though it turned him upside down, Six decided that Six in Nine was better than empty sets with another XX.