Book of Numbers: A Novel (30 page)

signifying
apathy or a median mood,
indicating moderately sad,
very
sad, and the same scaling applying to the rest:
very sated with
food/drink,
moderately
sated with food/drink,
again the baseline,
moderately
hungry/thirsty,
very
hungry/thirsty.

At the refined culmen of his language’s development Cohen was
operating at 28 fully rotationary levels of physical, mental, and even psychological
elaboration [NO NEED TO ELABORATE], supplemented with a variety of auxiliary markers
providing spatial context to the foundationally temporal and intensitive: a solid circle
indicating school, an open circle, home [NO NEED BUT REPRODUCE AND ANNOTATE AN
EXAMPLE].