I walked the dogs yesterday, heading with each of them in turn around the block in the neighborhood as I usually do when I have a few minutes in mid-morning. I could walk them both at the same time, which is what each of them would prefer, but each would need his or her own leash, given the difference in neck altitude. Considering the propensity for the taller one to walk over the shorter one, and for the shorter one to respond by walking underneath the taller one, and with each of them doubling back in unpredictable loops to follow through on one olfactory double-take or another, walking both dogs at the same time becomes topologically complex. Knot theory tells us that a knot is a circle embedded in a three-dimensional Euclidean space, and despite the fact that I was once a highly advanced student of mathematics, in that by the time I was 15 I had flunked calculus twice, having both dogs on leash at once quickly becomes more complex a problem than I have the tools to sort out.
Letter from the Desert: Iguana glut
Letter from the Desert: Iguana glut
Letter from the Desert: Iguana glut
I walked the dogs yesterday, heading with each of them in turn around the block in the neighborhood as I usually do when I have a few minutes in mid-morning. I could walk them both at the same time, which is what each of them would prefer, but each would need his or her own leash, given the difference in neck altitude. Considering the propensity for the taller one to walk over the shorter one, and for the shorter one to respond by walking underneath the taller one, and with each of them doubling back in unpredictable loops to follow through on one olfactory double-take or another, walking both dogs at the same time becomes topologically complex. Knot theory tells us that a knot is a circle embedded in a three-dimensional Euclidean space, and despite the fact that I was once a highly advanced student of mathematics, in that by the time I was 15 I had flunked calculus twice, having both dogs on leash at once quickly becomes more complex a problem than I have the tools to sort out.