Musemathematics

Numbers it is. All music when you come to think. Two multiplied by two divided by half is twice one. Vibrations : chords those are. One plus two plus six is seven. Do anything you like with figures juggling. Always find out this equal to that, symmetry under a cemetery wall. He doesn't see any mourning. Callous : all for his own gut. Musemathematics. And you think you're listening to the etherial. But suppose you it like : Martha, seven times nine minus x is thirtyfive thousand. Fall quite flat. It's on account of the sounds it is.

--James Joyce, Ulysses

Ah, Joycean mathematics

2 x 2 ÷ ½ = 2(1)

1 + 2 + 6 = 7

7 x 9 - x = 35 000

where, x ≠ -34 937
since symmetry lies under a cemetery wall