Now look, listen, I see time and numbers as a grid
in my mind like that's anything unusual
So now I can identify
as a spatial-sequence synaesthete
add that badge to my achievements?
This has been the process since
playing Snakes and Ladders at Grandma's c. 1970
The numbers 1 to 100 are set out
from bottom left 1-10 then snake
round 11-20 right to left
21-30 L to R, and so on, twisting
round and making mental arithmetic an
exercise in visualised grids
I'm not saying I'm really good at it
although probably better than you
<John Lee Hooker voice> Ho ho ho ho
don't you do it like that
Do you get the picture, yes we see,
it goes up to 100 and then
the whole process starts again and that's
what I mean by the magic number grid
Years, clocks, calendars
all with parallel visual components
I don't know how you jokers
operate if you don't
use a mind map of numbers in some way
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