If at

exactly midnight,

I were to tell

two friends

that to-day was

my birthday,

***

And they, in turn,

each told two people,

***

And they each

told two people,

***

And so on and so on …

By the following day

***

EVERYBODY in the world

would know it

was my birthday

***

And I would

still be spending it

alone with my

slide-ruler

.

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