Ari Lox (Concluded)

Newton would have adored and that Pythagoras would have slaughtered sheep to, Ari translated his specific solution to a general algorithm that allowed the inquisitive investigator to solve the problem from the various heights he found interesting.

   From atop the Washington Monument, one could espy the rolling hills of Manassas, where the battles of Bull Run in the American Civil War had been contested.

   Noticing that the surface area he could see approached a limit as the view’s height above the Earth’s surface increased, Ari deduced that the value of the limit was one-half that of the Earth’s orb, as it should be.

   Lastly, how strange that a rodent, that particularly pernicious metaphor for treachery and trickery, could see a third of a mile in Ari’s semi-ideal world, where its line of sight was not obstructed by the vulgarity of reality.

Copyright 2005