Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Language

    Describes a friend who 'converses solely in mathematical language', and gives examples of his speech. For example, he addresses 'communications to his cousin, Ensign A., of the Fifth, "n sin⁵a"'. Explains his ability to read and smoke at the same time with the answer that 'he was one of those men who considered that the pipe and cymbals (symbols) harmonised'.