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As you might have deduced from the title, I’ve reached one million readers.
Is that right? Is it deduce, or is it induce? I’ve heard that
deduction comes from removing all wrong answers, but that’s probably wrong,
and I really don’t know what induction is. Here’s the thing, I have a
pretty decent vocabulary, but there are still some concepts that I struggle
with. I’m also very logical, but I’ve also always particularly struggled
with explaining my logic through accepted standardized terms, like
straw man or if and then. I can tell you my logic, but I’m not
going to sound very smart while I do it, and I’ll stumble over all of my
words on my way there. In seventh grade, I was failing English class. We
were on a topic called Greek and Latin Roots and Stems. I was paying so
little attention that I didn’t even know what that meant. I’m sure I was
daydreaming a lot. I didn’t crack open my workbook once, and in fact, would
just leave it in my locker. We had a test the next day so I actually had to
call a classmate, who gave me hers to photocopy. It was kind of late at
night, and really weird, and humiliating, and my dad was angry with me for
it, because like I said, it was twelve or thirteen, so he had to help me
with everything. So anyway, I got the workbook, and started looking through
it, and I’m like, “this? This is what my teacher has been talking about? I
know all this. It says that -ing means continuous action,
because of course it does. This is why my teacher called my parents, and got
me in trouble?” Needless to say, now that I understood what I was missing, I
aced the test, and ended up with one of the highest grades of all classes
combined. So I’m pretty good at language.
Still, it’s still not clear to me how you induce something, at least not in
any practical sense, and my definition of deduction may come from my
strong sense of linguistic morphology, not from how the word is actually
used in this subject. I remember intuiting that the word
division meant separating objects in half when I was a toddler, which
misses the fact that it’s not always by half specifically. Why am I talking
about this? Oh yeah, a million readers. A million people read my stories
now. Well, a million unique IP addresses access my website on a regular
basis. I think it goes by the month, but it’s the middle of May now, so is
that based on April’s metrics, or is it just from thirty days ago to now?
I’m not entirely sure how to read this section of the blog service.
Whatever, I’ll take it, I trust the analytics. For years, this is what I
wanted, for people to read my stuff, and to keep coming back for more. I’ve
never been great at non-fiction, so I didn’t think it would turn out like
this, but I guess I didn’t think I would travel to a different world either.
Or different worlds, as it were. I wonder how many readers I would be
able to get if people in all of the universes that I’ve been to could
navigate to the site as well. That would be a lofty goal, and I should
really just be focusing on what’s here and now. Thank you. Thank you for
reading. I’m sure my alternate self on my homeworld is super envious of me
right now. Oh yeah, he’s pissed. I can feel it. His readership still sits at
approximately zero. He would take a million of anything if it also meant a
million readers, even slaps in the face. I’m not going to celebrate this
milestone, because I have a binge eating disorder, which is triggered by the
mentality that positive events should be marked with food, but I’m glad
anyway. Let’s see how long it takes to get to two million, and then after
that, I think the next one should be five billion?
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