Book of Numbers: A Novel (31 page)

Above would be a typical day, translating to: Cohen [
] at 24:00
[timemark] at home [open circle] was hyperawake [junction marking the
, or secondary
sleepiness/wakefulness continuum, at its alert extremity], at 06:00 was tossing between
waking and sleeping [
marked at midpoint], at 08:00 found himself at school [solid circle] and indifferent to
alimentation [
at midpoint],
though at noon had forced himself
or been forced to eat/drink until
he was full [
at its satiated
extremity implying an intervening lunch], by 16:00 was back home again and feeling
moderately unwell [
,
junction at third apex] and moderately depressed about it [