10 July 2004. Today just part of a new mathemaku. It's to be the quotient of a divison of a slightly colored 7 by a black 3. The idea is that a 7 with even a slight bit of color has a different value than a plain 7. Hence, the quotient must be something more than a plain 2. Like the word for 2--extended into a pun. . . .

I made it yesterday, from an earlier idea. I've used the overlapping single-letter fields of Jonathan Brannen before. Glad to be back with one, for I expect to be using them much in my Harbor View epic, if I ever get to it. The letter-as-negative-space-within-a-single-letter-field goes back to my "Homage to Athena" of something like twenty years ago. (Note: that field consisted of repeated kn's, so may not have literally been a single-letter-field, but in effect was.) This may be my first advance from the way I used the device there. It seems an advance to me because I'm now using two overlapping fields rather than a single field. Very minor, to be sure, but I'm thrilled to think a good device can sit in my mind unused for so long, then pop up into any kind of re-invention.