1. Equal relationships are indivisible by three.

 

“You came to the wrong conference, René.”

“Yes, Doctor Dempewolf.”
“Please, Diego. Drink?”

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René refused, already intoxicated by Diego’s triangular figure. “What are you studying?” Diego asked,

noticing a diary 

beside René.

“A doctorate in analytic geometry; my supervisor’s

passionately ruthless!”

 

Diego finished off his drink and saddened.
“Sounds like my marriage but with less of the passion.”

Marriage is a multiple of two and René realised he was

 

a remainder. Piece by piece did Diego analyse the slender

body.

“Do you know what ‘synthetic a priori’ is?” René shook his

head.

Diego explained, but his first intuition was to close the

bedroom door.

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2. When points belong to something at a fixed time, it is a date.

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“Do you always have dinner with your students?”

“The rising stars, yes,” said Ruth, confident with no

wedding ring.

“So, what part of India are you from?”

 

“I’m a mish-mash: London born, Australia raised. Returned.”

“Explains the twang. And the French name? Why Geometry?”

“Parents. Practical romantics. Mathematics. Cold beauty,”

René said,

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hiding truth behind truth.
“Why academia, Ruth?”
“Should I say the joy of knowledge,

 

I’d be a liar; with all this fucking red tape I’d have been better off in Westminster –

at least there I could dispense it!”

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“Sorry, I’ve a tutoring session at Clare College now,”

said René. Ruth touched his hand,

“I’m a forward thinker. And forward. We should explore

discrete mathematics?”

“Discreet mathematics.”