i_believe_in_love epitome of incomprehensibility ...but math is my religion. Context: my essay was done and I was hanging out clothes, singing Time flies But then so do pigeons I believe in love But math is my religion as if this was the chorus to something, or part of it. And then I'd repeat the line "I believe in love" a couple of times. I believe in love (chord) I believe in love Which is obviously silly, but there's context: my parents are Christian and they don't like the fact that my boyfriend isn't. He didn't grow up with religion and he's not particularly interested in it as a thing to believe in. Now, he likes philosophy and some authors that happen to be Christian, and he has a practical side that makes him absurdly nice (although also prone to pranks; are practical jokes practical)? But that isn't good enough. And so that was my main pre-pandemic angst. Aside from the whole "Am I not good and/or organized enough" and "can I finish a novel" stuff. Oh, I also wrote a sci-fi story when I was 16 about some aliens who come from a planet where math was the religion. I don't know how. It just was. 200508 ... e_o_i Time flies, but then so do pigeons. I believe in love, but all my religion’s Not giving me visions that everything’s Just A-OK. 2020 brought us the plague, The rainbows said, Ça va bien aller, Mais j’ai oublié Comment parler français. I believe in love, I believe in love. I believe in love, I believe in love. These days, I can’t make a racket. Let’s be people of the book jacket. I can’t have my libraries back yet, Help me, Lord above. Call St. Andrew and call St. Paul I don’t think they were Scottish at all But I’ll celebrate pigeons And geese and doves (in Montreal). I believe in love, I believe in love. I believe in love, I believe in love. I believe in love, I believe in love. I believe in love, I believe in love. 210101 ... e_o_i Footnotes or toe-holds: "Ça va bien aller" - Quebec slogan common in the spring of 2020; roughly translates to "It's going to be okay." "Mais j’ai oublié / Comment parler français" = But I forgot how to speak French "libraries" - At first, libraries in Montreal were closed during the pandemic. In the summer, when restrictions lifted, I could go into a couple of libraries with a mask on, but not sit down in any of the chairs (university libraries had study spaces you could reserve, but I didn't do this, being only a part-time independent student at Concordia). Anyway, libraries. Now (January 2021) many are open for pick-up and drop-off only. "Call St. Andrew and call St. Paul / I don’t think they were Scottish at all" - Montreal's largest Presbyterian church is called St. Andrew and St. Paul. Historically, many Presbyterians were Scottish. 210101 what's it to you? who go blather from