Chapter 13 Start with Sidley Manor in Germany

Sidley Manor from Germany (1) "Sidley Park, April 11th, 1809. Sir--I call you a liar, a womanizer, a slanderer in the press, a thief of my reputation. As a man and Poet, when you are ready to agree to my duel request. Mr. E. Chater." (There is a brief silence.) Hannah is great, but not believable.It would take another seven years for the book to reach Byron.It couldn't hook Byron and Charter or Sidley Park or, for that matter, Hodge.Again, nowhere in Byron's letters does this appear to be implied, and he could never have said nothing about such conflicts. Bernard conflict?

Hannah, he's going to end it comically. Bernard's comedic ending, blah blah blah! (He pauses for effect) He killed Chat! Hannah (disdainfully) Oh, come on! Bernard Chater was thirty-one years old at the time, and had already published two books, but since The Bed of Eros, he had not been heard from at all, and after April, 1809, he disappeared altogether.And Byron -- Byron had just published his satirical poem, "The English Poet and Scotch Critic," in March, when he was just starting to become famous.As soon as he could find a boat, however, he sailed to Lisbon and spent two years abroad.Hannah, this will make you famous.Somewhere in the Krum family papers, there would be something--

Hannah no, I've seen it. But you're looking for something else, Bernard!It doesn't jump out like "Lord Byron said something funny at breakfast"! Hannah You're right, but it's unlikely he wouldn't have mentioned it if he was there.But there is nothing to suggest that Byron has been here, and I believe he never has been. Bernard All right, but let me see. Hannah, you're delaying me. Bernard dear girl, I know what to do-- Hannah Don't call me my dear girl.If I see anything about Byron, or Charter, or Hodge, I'll let you know.Nightingale in Sussex.

(A brief silence. She stands up.) Thank you Bernard.Sorry about my last name. Never mind Hannah... Bernard By the way, what college did Hodge go to? Hannah Trinity. Bernard Trinity? Hannah is right. (she hesitates) Yes, Byron did. How old was Bernard Hodge? Hannah I'll have to look it up, just a year or two older than Byron.twenty two…… Bernard was at Trinity College at the same time? HANNA (wearily) Yes, Bernard, Harrow and Eton must all be in elevens when they play cricket at Lords! (Bernard goes to her and stands in front of her.) Bernard (smoothly) You mean Septimus Hodge and Byron were classmates?

Hannah (a little hesitantly) Yes...in fact...he must be. Bernard Cough, you fool. (Bernard throws Hannah into his arms, exaggeratedly, and kisses her loudly on the cheek. Enter Chloe at the end of the scene.She carried a small tray with two large glasses on it. ) Chloe oh-hmm... I thought I could bring it to you. Bernard, I have to go and see my car. Is Hannah going to hide? Bernard hiding?I want to sell it!Is there an inn in the village where I can stay? (He is leaving across the garden, his back to them) Don't you like me here? (He gets off.) Chloe he said he knew you. Hannah couldn't.

Chloe, yes, maybe not.He said he wanted to surprise you, but I guess that's different.I think he's super sexual, don't you? Hannah what? Chloe walks briskly, which, you see, is an unmistakable sign.Shall I invite him for you? What is Hannah doing?do not. Chloe you can invite him - that's even better.He can be your dance partner. Hannah stop talking.Thank you for the tea. Chloe, if you don't want to find him, I'll go.Is he married? Hannah I have absolutely no idea.Shouldn't you find a lad? Chloe, I'm just trying to set you up, Hannah. Hannah, trust me, it doesn't matter that much.

Chloe I mean dancing, he can come dressed as Playboy Brummel. ①Refers to George Bryan Blummel (1778-1840), a well-known playboy, very particular about dressing, and had a certain influence--Annotation.Hannah I don't want makeup, I don't want a partner, but the last thing I want is Mr Nightingale.I don't dance. Chloe, stop being so boring.You were still kissing him anyway. Hannah It was him who kissed me, and only with general enthusiasm. Hi Chloe, don't say I didn't give you the first chance.My genius brother will put a stone in his heart.He loves you and I think you know that.

Hannah (angrily) That's a joke. Sidley Manor from Germany (2) Chloe was no joke to him.Of course Hannah is--not even a joke--how do you put it so bafflingly? (Gus enters from the garden, as usual, silent and clumsy.) Chloe Hi Gus, what are you holding? (Gus has a freshly picked apple with a leaf or two on it. He hands the apple to Hannah.) Hannah (startled) Oh! ……thanks! Chloe (as she walks away) I told you. (Chloe leaves and closes the door.) Hannah thank you.Oh my God. third game classroom.next morning. Currently there are: Thomasina, Septimus, Jerabai.We've seen this scene before: Thomasina sitting at the table; Septimus reading a letter that has just arrived; Jerabai, who has just delivered the letter, waits. "The Bed of Eros" was opened in front of Septimus, and there were a few sheets of paper he used to write on beside it.His portfolio is on the table. "Plautus"① (turtle) is a paperweight.At this moment there is an apple on the table, and in all respects, it is the original apple.

①The name comes from the ancient Roman comedy writer Titus McHughes Plautus (254 BC-184 BC) - Annotation.Septimus (looking at the letter) Why did you stop? (Thomasina is studying a piece of paper, an impromptu Latin translation lesson. She is having difficulty translating.) Thomasina "Solioinsessa"..."inigne"...on the throne...in the fire...also on the boat..."Sedebatregina"...sat the queen... Septimus does not answer, Gerabai.Thank you. (He folds the letter up in The Bed of Eros) Gerabai I'll tell you so, sir. Thomasina... the scent of the wind... "purpureisvelis"...for, with or from the purple sails--

Septimus (to Gerabai) I have something to send, please. Jalabai (about to leave) All right, sir. (Gera bows.) Thomasina... like - something - because, with or from lovers - oh, Septimus! "musicatibiarumimperabat"...wind order... Septimus "Dominates" is better. Thomasina...Silver Paddle--Stimulate the Sea--Like-Like-Sentimental-- Septimus is good. (He takes the apple, removes the stalk and the leaves, and puts them on the table. He cuts a piece of the apple with a knife, eats it, and cuts another piece for Plautus the turtle) Thomasina "Regina Reclinabat"... Queen -- lying -- "PraeterDescriptionem" -- indescribable -- under a golden tent... like Venus, but more --

Septimus tried to put some poetry into it. Thomasina doesn't have it in Latin, so how can I? Septimus Oh, what a critic! Is Thomasina writing about Queen Dido? ①The legendary queen of Carthage, the founder of Carthage, fell in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas, and committed suicide after being abandoned--annotation.Septimus was not. Thomasina Who wrote this poem? Septimus you know. Thomasina I know? Septimus was not a Roman. Mr. Thomasina Chater? Septimus you translated it very much like Chat wrote. (Septimus picks up his pen and continues writing on his own.) Thomasina, I know who it is. It's your friend Byron. Septimus Lord Byron, please call him that. Thomasina My mother is in love with Lord Byron. Septimus (concentrating on writing) Yes.nonsense. Thomasina is no nonsense.I saw them in the gazebo. (Septimus stops writing and looks up at her at last.) Lord Byron was reading fragments of his satirical poems, and my mother was smiling and moving. Septissis She doesn't understand the satire, she's just being polite to her guests. THOMASINA: She's angry with my father because he's determined to make the estate better, but that alone doesn't explain her politeness to this guest.She came down a few hours earlier than she was used to.Lord Byron was very funny at breakfast.He praised you, Septimus. Is it Septimus? Tomasina he said you were a funny talker and he almost memorized one of your articles about- well, I forgot what title, but it was about a book called The Turkish Maiden, and said you Why don't you want to feed it to your dog. Sidley Manor from Germany (3) Septimus Alas.Charter was having breakfast, too, of course. Thomasina is here, not like some lazybones. Septimus He didn't have to prepare Latin and correct math homework. (He pulls Thomasina's textbook from under the turtle "Plautus" and throws it over the table to her) Thomasina correction?What's wrong? (She flips through the book) You Xia?Hello!How to bring a "down"? Septimus for answering more than what was asked. Thomasina you don't like what I found? Septimus whimsy is not discovery. Thomasina scoffed not retorted. (Septimus has finished and folds the pages into a letter. He has sealing wax and tools to melt it. He sealed the letter and wrote on the cover.Meanwhile, Thomasina kept talking. ) You are grumpy in front of me because my mother favors your friend.Well, let them elope, they cannot reverse the development of knowledge.I think it's an amazing discovery.Every week, I follow the algebraic relationship between xs and ys in various ways, and draw your equations, point by point.But week after week, the figures they drew were just ordinary geometry, as if the world of forms were nothing but arcs and angles.Indeed, Septimus, if there is an equation for a curve like a clock, there must be a curve like that of a bluebell, and if there is one for a bluebell, how can there not be a rose?Do we believe that nature is written in numbers? Septimus believed it. Thomasina, but why do your equations only describe the machined shape? Septimus I don't know. THOMASINA If only these equations were available, God could only make a cupboard. The equations mastered by God Septimus lead to infinite possibilities that are beyond our comprehension. Thomasina had no guts!We must find our way out from the center of the maze.Let's start with the simple stuff first. (she picks up the apple tree leaf) I will draw the leaf and derive its equation.You will be famous for being my teacher, and Lord Byron is dead and forgotten. (Septimus has finished the letter. He puts it in his pocket.) Septimus (resolutely) reads Cleopatra again. Thomasina is Cleopatra?I hate Cleopatra! ① Cleopatra (69-30 BC), queen of Egypt (51-49 BC and 48-30 BC), famous for her beauty and charm - Annotation. ②Refers to the dynasty that ruled Egypt from 323 to 30 BC--annotation. ③A city in northern Italy—annotation.Septimus You hate her?Why? Thomasina, whatever it was, fell in love with her in the end.New loves, unrequited loves, lost loves -- I've never seen a heroine make our gender look so stupid.All it takes is a Roman general outside the window to anchor the ship, and the empire is handed over, like a baptismal cup to a pawnshop.If Queen Elizabeth had been Ptolemy, history would have been very different—we would have admired the pyramids of Rome and the Sphinx of Verona.Septimus God save us. THOMASINA But this Egyptian fool fucked the enemy who burned the library of Alexandria to avoid overdue fines!O Septimus!Can you take it?So much drama for the Athenians!At least two hundred—thousands of poems—of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides—and Aristotle's own library, brought to Egypt by the fool's own ancestors!How can we sleep when we are so sad? ① In 48 BC, Caesar, the Roman commander, pursued Pompey into Egypt after winning the Battle of Farsaro, and then helped Queen Cleopatra fight for the throne, and set fire to the enemy's fleet and port while fighting with his brother .The fire spread to the city of Alexandria, causing the library to suffer, and more than half of all collections were destroyed--Annotation. ②Septimus made a joke with Thomasina. This translation assignment was originally based on Shakespeare’s play "Antony and Cleopatra", Act II, Scene 2. Septimus put it first Translate into Latin, and then let Thomasina translate it back--annotation.Septimus can do it by taking an inventory of our stock.Aeschylus seven, Sophocles seven, Euripides nineteen, my lady!You shouldn't be more heartbroken over any other drama than over the buttons on your first pair of shoes, or the textbooks you grow up to throw away.We pick up things and throw them away at the same time, just like travelers who hold everything in their arms. What we drop will be picked up by those who come after us.The road is long, but life is short, and we die on the way, but we have nothing but the way, so we have nothing to lose.The lost plays of Sophocles will appear one by one, or be written in another language, ancient cures will be rediscovered, and mathematical discoveries that have been lost before their appearance will be rediscovered.Don't you think, my lady, that if all the inventions of Archimedes were hidden in the Library of Alexandria, we would have no corkscrews?I have no doubt that the papyrus records of the heat-engine, improved, steam-driven, which fascinated Mr. Knox, appeared at the same period as Mr. Knox and the modern world.The steam engine and brass were not invented in Glasgow.Um, where did we translate?Let me see if I can paraphrase for you.I was better than Lord Byron in this subject at Harrow. (He takes the paper from her and looks at it carefully, trying a Latin phrase or two thoughtfully before starting to translate) Um--"The boat she was sitting on was like a glowing throne...on the water Burning up... that - what - the helm tower is made of gold, and the sails are purple, what is this? Oh yes - sweet"-- THOMASINA (understood furiously) Liar! Septimus (calmly) "The wind loves them too"-- Thomasina is a liar!Septimus "The oars were of silver, and moved to the sound of the flute"-- THOMASINA (jumping up) Deceitful!lie!lie! Sidley Manor from Germany (4) Septimus (seems too easy to bother translating)--"The waters that make them paddle more hastily, as tenderly as their paddling. To herself, it is impossible to describe--she really lies under the tent"-- (Thomasina, weeping with rage, rushes out into the garden.) Septimus I wish you dead! (She nearly bumps into Bryce, who is about to come in. She runs out of sight. Enter Bryce.) Bryce God, hey, what did you say to her? Septimus told her?Say what? Bryce Hodges! (Septimus looks out, slightly regretting what happened to Thomasina, and sees Charter hiding out of view of the audience.) Septimus Chatter!my dear friend!Don't stay back--come in, sir! (Charter, looking cowardly, is pulled into the room by Septimus without resistance. Bryce stood with dignity. ) I am honored by Colonel Charter Brice—I mean, sir, if you have anything to say to me, go to Colonel Brice. Septimus is not easy. (to Bryce) Didn't see your wife yesterday, sir.Hope she's not sick? Bryce my wife?I don't have a wife.What the fuck do you mean? (Septimus does not answer, but hesitates and is puzzled. He speaks to Chater again.) Septimus I don't see how it's arranged, Charter.Who should I talk to when I want to speak to Colonel Bryce? Bryce Oh, cunning, Hodge - cunning! SEPTIMOS (to CHAT) By the way, CHAT--(He turns to Bryce in mid-sentence, and continues as before)--By the way, CHAT, I want to tell you something surprising news.An ill-advised letter has been written in your name.I got one less than half an hour ago. Bryce (angrily) Mr. Hodge!Be careful with your reputation!If you must talk to me so stupidly, you appoint a deputy, who may settle matters between gentlemen.Your friend Byron is sure to be your second in command. (As the following dialogue proceeds, a poorly played piano is heard from the next room.) Septimus (no longer amused) Oh, yes, he can be my second-in-command. (He changes his mood, speaking to Charter) Sir - I am sorry for what you have been hurt.You are a man of undeniable honesty, and you, like your poems, have no malice. CHAT (happily) Oh!That's the way to say it! (he is suspicious again) Is he apologizing? Bryce's cohabitation rights are still compromised, Mrs. Charter she-- Chater spit on me, sir! Bryce Then do as you say - she spits on you.although-- (But their conversation is interrupted by the Countess of Croom, who also enters the room from the garden.) Countess of Croom Oh - how good to find you!Mr. Charter, this thing will make you very happy.Lord Byron is begging for a copy of your new book.He would love to read it, and put your name in the second edition of his English Poets and Scottish Critic. Lady Charter, English Poet and Scottish Critic, is a limerick for someone older and better than Lord Byron.If he tried to include me in it, he was trying to insult me. COUNTESS CROME Well, of course he thinks so, Mr Charter.Don't you think you don't deserve to be insulted?You should be proud to be in the company of Rodgers and Moore and Wordsworth--ah! The Bed of Eros. (Because she saw the copy of Septimus on the table) ① Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), British poet, author of "Italy", "The Pleasure of Memory", etc.; Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish romantic poet, author of "Irish Music", "The Biography of Byron" and so on - Annotation.Septimus This is mine. The Countess of Crum is better -- what good is a friend's book if it can't be borrowed? (Note: The Bed of Eros now has three letters sandwiched in, it must be concealed from this fact, hence the larger quarto.) ①A port in southwestern England--Annotation. ②An island in the east of Greece--Annotation. ③Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.), an ancient Roman poet, worked as a lawyer, and wrote, etc. - Annotation.Mr. Hodge, you'll have to go and tell your friend to stop pretending to leave us. I won't take that.He said he made up his mind to take the Malta liner from Falmouth!All he could think about was Lisbon and Lesbos and his suitcase of pistols, and I told him not to think about it.Napoleon is going on all over Europe, all the best monuments are being shut down, roads are closed for military action, boarding places are military quarters, the godless republican fashion hasn't recovered naturally.He said his goal was poetry.One does not aim a gun at poetry, but it is possible to aim at poets.I ask you to keep his pistol, Mr. Hodge!Let him carry the insecurities.He admitted to me that his lameness was due to his childhood habit of shooting himself in the foot.What noise? (That's the badly played piano from next door.) Septimus is the new Broadwood, ma'am.Our music class has just started teaching. Mrs Crome hum, when she's learning something, limit your lessons to the violin side of the instrument, and take it easy on the steel side. (Mrs. Crome, book in hand, walks lightly back to the garden.) Oh Bryce!If that was not God speaking through the mouth of the Countess of Croom, through whom He never would! Charter (fear) keep Lord Byron's pistols! Hey Bryce, you heard what Mr. Chater said - how do you answer him? (Septimus has been watching the Countess of Crum as she walks the grounds. He turns.) Septimus beat him to death.I have had enough of him. CHAT (startled) Eh? Bryce (happy) Ha! Septimus Oh, to hell with your soul, Chat!Ovid would have been a lawyer and Virgil a farmer if he had known to what mediocrity you fun-seeking harlots and foolish nympho have reduced love!If you had half an ounce of courage in your head, I'd be with you.I can promise you--behind the houseboat at dawn--how about five o'clock?My compliments to Mrs. Charter--don't be afraid of her, as long as Colonel Bryce has a guinea in his pocket, she needs no one, he told her himself. From Germany to Sidley Manor (5) ① British old gold coins, worth one pound and one shilling--annotation.Hey Bryce, you lied! Septimus No, sir.Perhaps Mrs. Chater was lying. Bryce, you lied, or you accept my duel request! Septimus (in an annoyed tone) Oh, very good - I can finish you at five past five, and then catch the Malta liner from Falmouth.You two will die, and my penniless school friend will stay to be Miss Thomasina's governess, and I am sure everyone, including the Countess of Crum, will be satisfied! (Septimus slams the door shut.) Bryce, he was just bluffing.Don't worry, Chat, I'll finish him off. (Bryce goes out by another door. Chater was only relieved for a moment, and then thought of something wrong...) Charter Oh!But…… (He trots after Bryce.) fourth game Hannah and Valentine. Hannah was reading aloud and Valentine was listening. "Lightning" (tortoise) is on the table, and it is not easy to see the difference from "Plautus" in appearance.In front of Valentine is Septimus's document bag, which can be seen, but of course it has faded to some extent.It's open.There are mainly three things associated with this document package (though there may be a few blank sheets): a thin elementary mathematics textbook; a drawing sheet with schematic diagrams and some mathematical symbols and arrows scribbled on it. and so on; and Thomasina's arithmetic book, the one she had written on, which Valentine was flipping through, listening to Hannah read the writing in the elementary maths book. Hannah "I, Thomasina Coverly, have discovered a truly wondrous method by which all the shapes in nature reveal their numerical secrets and can be drawn just by the numbers themselves. This There is too little space for me to write, and the reader must look elsewhere for the new geometry of irregular shapes, discovered by Thomasina Coverly." (There is a brief silence. She hands Valentine the textbook. Valentine looks at where she is reading. There is the sound of the piano from the next room, at first quietly, inoffensively, and impromptu.) Does this make any sense? Valentine I don't understand.I don't understand what the point is, except in mathematics. Hannah I mean in mathematics. Valentine (picking up the textbook again) This is an iterative algorithm. What is Hannah? Valentin Well, it's... omg...it's an algorithm...iterated.How should I...? (He makes another effort.) The figure on the left page is an illustration of the number on the right page, but all in different scales.Each picture is a small part of the previous picture, which is enlarged, just like enlarging a part of a photo, and then the details of the details, and so on, to infinity.Or according to her situation, there is no place to write. Is it difficult Hannah? Valentine math itself is not difficult, it is what you learned in school.You have some x and y equations. Setting any value of x will cause y to have a value, so that you get a point that satisfies x and y, and then setting a value for x will make y get another value, so after a few times, you Connect the dots and you get a graph of any equation. Hannah Is that what she does? Valentine No, not exactly.Not at all.What she does is, every time she gets a value for y, she takes that value as the next value for x.It goes on like this, like a kind of feedback.She put the numbers back into the equation and then solved it.You see, this is superposition. Hannah is incredible, isn't she? Valentin Well, sort of.That's the method I use to study grouse populations, too, but it's only been around, well, about twenty years or so. (There is a brief silence.) Hannah why is she doing this? Valentine I don't know. (There is a brief silence.) I thought you were studying that hermit. Hannah: I'm researching, but Bernard, the bastard... Thomasina's governess has an interesting background.Bernard searched through the library like a hound.The package was found in a cupboard. Valentine has a lot going on here.Gus loves flipping.Before there was no master or who... The primer that Hannah Thomasina was using was his -- the teacher's, and he wrote his name on it. Valentine (reading) "Septimus Hodge." Hannah, why do these things survive? Why should Valentine have a reason? Hannah also has this schematic, what is it about? Valentine How do I know? Hannah, why are you angry? Valentine I'm not mad. (Pause) When your Thomasina studied mathematics, it was the same mathematics for two thousand years, classical.Mathematics hasn't changed much a century after Thomasina.And then mathematics leaves the real world behind, like modern art, indeed.Nature is classical, mathematics is suddenly Picasso.But now nature is having the last laugh, and those grotesque things turn out to be mathematics in nature. What about Hannah's feedback? Valentine is an example. Hannah Well, would Thomasina have been-- VALENTIN (impatiently) No, of course she's not fucking! Hannah Well, don't be angry.What do you mean you're doing the same thing she did? (pause) What are you doing? Valentine Actually, I started at the other end.She starts with an equation and turns it into an image.I start with an image -- actual data -- and try to find that equation, and if you take her method, which is an iterative method, you can get the image from the equation. What is Hannah good for? Sidley Manor from Germany (6) Valentin It is a method of identifying quantitative changes in biology.For example, a goldfish in a pond.There are x entries this year, and there will be y entries in the next year.Some are born, some are eaten by herons or whatever.In this way, in the next year, the number at the beginning is y.This is exactly what Thomasina did, the y value you get becomes the next value of x.The question is: how is x affected?How to calculate?Whatever it is, it can be written down mathematically, it's an algorithm. Hannah won't be the same every year. Valentine changes only the details, you can't grasp everything, it's not putting nature in a box, but you don't need to know everything.Putting it all together, it turns out that quantities obey a mathematical law. Hannah Goldfish? Valentine was right and wrong.is a number.It's not about goldfish behavior, it's about changing numbers.This holds true for any phenomenon that changes its own numbers—measles infections, average rainfall, cotton prices, which are themselves natural phenomena.What a creepy person. Hannah works for grouse too? Valentine I don't know yet.I mean, the applicability is unquestionable, but it's hard to show.In the case of grouse, there are more disturbances. Hannah interfering? Valentine is distorted.disturbance.The actual data is a mess.Here's a thousand acres of moorland, and there used to be grouse, and there was until about 1930.But no one bothered to count the total number of grouse.They only shoot grouse.So they could count the grouse they had caught.Burning heather is a disturbance, though, because it improves the food supply.A good year for the foxes is disturbed in another way, they eat the young grouse.And then there's the weather.There are so many distractions that it is difficult to discern patterns.It's like having a piano next door and it's playing your favorite song, but unfortunately it's messed up, some strings are missing, and the player is tone-deaf and drunk - I mean, jamming!It's terrible! Hannah what do you do? Valentine began to guess what the pattern might be, trying to pick it out from the disturbance.You try this, you try that, and you start to get something -- not complete, but you start to put in missing or not quite right elements... little by little... (he starts beeping "Happy Birthday ") Da Da Di Da Di Da, dear Valentine, I wish you Da Da Di Da--the algorithm that no one knows! Hannah (calmly) Well, I see.Then what? Valentine I publish articles. Hannah is right, sorry.very good. Valentine, in theory.Compared with goldfish, grouse are very annoying. Hannah Then why did you choose grouse? The Valentine's Game Register, my real inheritance.It is easy to have two hundred years of data. Does anyone record whatever Hannah hits? Valentinha, the game register is for that purpose.I only use the one that started in 1870. At that time, hunters hid in a place and then people drove their prey out to hunt. Hannah, are you saying those game registers date back to Thomasina's time? Valentine Oh, yes, earlier than that. (then thinks of what's on her mind first) No--really, I assure you.I assure you, no mention of schoolgirls living in a country house in Derbyshire in the 1800s! Hannah Well, what would she do then? Valentine she just plays with numbers.The truth is, she did nothing. Hannah she must have done something. Valentine scribbled.Something she didn't understand at all. A monkey with Hannah sitting in front of a typewriter? Valentine was right.Well, a piano. (Hannah picks up the math book and reads.) Hannah "...by this method, all shapes in nature must reveal their numerical secrets, and can be drawn through numbers alone." This feedback is a way of making graphical method?You just have to tell me if you are. Valentine (exasperated) is for me.Turmoil, growth, change, generated graphics, this is not the way to draw an elephant, why not! Hannah I'm sorry. (She picks up an apple leaf from the table. She's not confident enough to dwell on it) So you can't draw the shape of the leaf by superimposing what? Valentin (immediately) Oh, no, yes. Hannah (furiously) Well, tell me!Honestly, I kind of want to kill you! Valentine, if you know the algorithm and run it 10,000 times, you will get a point on the screen each time.You never know where the next point will appear.But gradually, you start to see the shape, because every point will appear in this leaf shape.It is not just a leaf, but a mathematical object.But yes, the unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.This is how nature creates itself, no matter the scale, snowflakes and blizzards.It makes me happy to be at the beginning again and know next to nothing.People are talking about the end of physics.The theory of relativity and quantum theory once seemed to solve all problems together, and they were universal theories.But they only explain the very big and the very small, the universe, the elementary particles.Ordinary-sized things, the things that make up our lives, things that people write about in poems, clouds, daffodils, waterfalls, and what happens when you pour cream into a cup of coffee, etc. As mysterious as the universe in the eyes of the ancient Greeks.We’re better at predicting what’s going on at the edge of the Milky Way or inside the nucleus than we are at predicting whether it’s going to rain at my aunt’s garden party the third Sunday in the future, because those are different problems.When a dripping faucet drips erratically, we can't even predict when the next drop will come.Each drop sets the conditions for the next, and the smallest change overturns the forecast, and likewise the weather is unpredictable and never will be.After entering the numbers into the computer, you can see them on the screen.The future is disorderly.Five or six such doors have been opened since we walked upright.It's best to live in the present, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. (There is a brief silence.) The weather in Hannah Sahara is fairly predictable.