'Troglodyte' is a varied word with many entries. Coincidence has it I might qualify for them all to varying degree, but for the sake of this intro we'll stick with the first two.
1. a prehistoric cave dweller.
2. a person living in seclusion.
3. a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character.
4. a person unacquainted with affairs of the world.
5. an animal living underground.
In the chase for a mathematical equation to the universe, my vote is for Pi. It is most like the wax and wane of everyday life, randomness with sudden punctuations of pattern, the patterns themselves random. At position 9, 470, 344, the string 1234567 occurs. At position 3, 346, 228 the string 7777777 occurs. Like that.
So that when I try to figure out the mathematical equation of my winos visits to The Cave, it is just as elusively without pattern. I may very well be here for days minus any activity at all, it is crickets, it is pure silence, it is the stuff of Monks & Madness, and then all of a sudden it's crazy, everyone shows up at once, you think it will be a busy day but it is only a busy moment, and an hour later and an hour after that it is again nothing, I have to wait maybe twenty, maybe a hundred, maybe a million positions to pass before the next random pattern occurs. It's so exciting!
(click here to play with Pi.)
