What's with the new numbering system?
I was having problems keeping track of all of the primitives, and remembered that whenever Margaret Mead--in her notes, not her books or articles--had the same problem, she resorted to identifying primitives by number rather than by name.
True, there's only circa 5,000 primitives, but still, that's a lot of primitives to keep track of.
So I decided to assign numbers to primitives, to see if it works.
It might, or might not, work.
For reference:
Primitive #5 = the sparkling husband primitive, the "Stinky the Clown" primitive
Primitive #7 = the Rita Hayworth primitive, the "Tambourine LaBamba" primitive
Primitive #11 = the baby-talking warped primitive, the "Warpy" primitive
Primitive #18 = the "tularetom" primitive
Primitive #19 = the Bostonian Drunkard
Primitive #43 = the shadowy primitive, the "Shadow69" primitive
Primitive #47 = the legendary herb primitive, the "Mythsaje" primitive
Primitive #61 = the grouchy old primitive, the "NNN0LH1" primitive.
They're numbered according to how interesting they are.
It's not perfect, and it looks likely I'm going to ditch the numbering system, but I'm going to try it a little longer, because like sometimes with an automobile where the ignition refuses to turn over, and one is about ready to give up, the engine suddenly sputters to life.
I'm always experimenting.
edited to add the accidentally omitted Rita Hayworth primitive; sorry for the inconvenience
