141|24|3273. 8 15 7 19 8 5 1 4/Hogshead: The great amnesia of 1423 that swept the region is said to have left hardly anything behind, the date or even the fact of its occurrence is in doubt, given credence ironically by the lack of memory, or fabulations in embroidered covers sold as souvenirs, which have mythologized the foundation of these 8 precincts as carefully planned by mathematicians. According to these legends the now forgotten planning stages is founded on some elegant ratio between a given volume and the weight of certain substances, derived from feral pigs skull. The type of substance that make up the volume is not specific and can range between kegs of wine, beer, barrels of tobacco, or even cans of sardines; and the basis of the measurement is also sometimes disputed, with some attributing the magical ratio to the skull of an ox instead, not quite knowing how to differentiate between the two since there are no surviving records of what is meant by either of them. Here, though we see them everywhere, carefully indexed, inflated with significance, painted on streets, on building envelopes, on advertisement boards glowing in Neon, on laboratory jars, at home or bars, the guarantee of numbers has been fully erased; unwarranted, they are now the minted currency of its fluctuating certainties; ∑Hogshead= M
Anti referent #496 S27: Shegodah
