Charles Baudelaire, great French poet of the 19th Century, once wrote a poem called Correspondances. In it, he suggests that there are metaphysical connections in nature that can be apprehended by the senses. Different objects and experiences can correspond to one another in a purely aesthetic way. The connection can be metaphorical, or poetic even: in a rhyme or by juxtaposition in a line of verse.
Baudelaire would have loved predictive text messaging because the T9 dictionary in mobile phones clearly has a secret poetic intelligence. It makes connections between things on the apparently random basis that the key strokes for two different words might be the same. But yet somtimes, it seems to throw up brilliant combinations.
Thus 73532833 is both 'selected' and 'rejected'. Try to send someone a text saying 'you've been rejected' and you can accidentally say the opposite.
Or my favourite: 4768
As in 'Nearly finished work, shall we go for a shot/riot/pint'
7259 - 'play' and 'slay'. 7638 - 'soft' and 'poet' etc.
It must be Friday.
