How to Love Mathematical Objects

By Kuzhali Manickavel

"How to Love Mathematical Objects" is the third installment in Blaft's "Monographs on Cryptodiversity and Decoherence" series. It is a chapbook of experimental writing. Some concepts you will encounter here:

1. Draw a line segment. Name one end Buttercup and the other Yes-In-Deedy.
2. Draw another line segment. Draw it anywhere.
3. Take the first line segment to a queer poetry reading or an exhibition of straight art. Be respectful of the line’s space. Be woke.
4. Draw two rhombuses. Make them fight each other. Threaten them with bodily harm if they ever stop.
5. Measure the distance between the second line segment and the one you took to the queer poetry reading or exhibition of straight art. Divide the distance by two.
6. Share this distance with a loved one or someone you wish was a loved one.
7. Anticipate the wants and needs of the very first line segment.
8. Buy it things.
9. Call it by a word that denotes multiples of a fruit, like peaches, bananas or oranges.
10. Watch it sleep.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blaft Publications
• Release date: Aug 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9789380636627

Kuzhali Manickavel

Kuzhali Manickavel is the author of INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME EXCEPT SOME OF THEM HAVE WINGS, a collection of short stories published by Blaft Publications in 2008. Her work can also be found in Best American Fantasy 3, Subtropics, AGNI Online, anderbo, DIAGRAM and elsewhere. She lives in a small temple town on the coast of South India and blogs at http://thirdworldghettovampire.blogspot.com/.

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How to Love

Mathematical

Objects

by Kuzhali Manickavel

monographs on decoherence and cryptodiversity

1. Draw a line segment. Name one end Buttercup and the other Yes-In-Deedy.

2. Draw another line segment. Draw it anywhere.

3. Take the first line segment to a queer poetry reading or an exhibition of straight art. Be respectful of the line’s space. Be woke.

4. Draw two rhombuses. Make them fight each other. Threaten them with bodily harm if they ever stop.

5. Measure the distance between the second line segment and the one you took to the queer poetry reading or exhibition of straight art. Divide the distance by two.

6. Share this distance with a loved one or someone you wish was a loved one.

7. Anticipate the wants and needs of the very first line segment.

8. Buy it things.

9. Call it by a word that denotes multiples of a fruit, like peaches, bananas or oranges.

10. Watch it sleep.

11. Add things to it, like the number seven or woollen scarves.

12. Take a series of selfies with it, in this