23: The Twins

The Twins, John and Michael, first encounters to people seemed to appear as “Tweedledum” and “Tweedledee”. John and Michael were mirror images of each other; identical in face, in body movements, in mind, and it seemed as if they were indistinguishable. They were undersized with disproportions in head and hands, monotonous squeaky voices, and had degenerative myopia, which required thick glasses that gave them the appearance of little silly professors.

The twins had a difficult childhood growing up, as they have been in institutions being variously diagnosed as autistic or severely retarded. In fact, the twins were quite the opposite. John and Michael had remarkable gifts that people did not understand, which many people had misconceptions about their ability to comprehend things in reality. The twins had remarkable “documentary” memories of the smallest, visual details of their own experience. Unlike most people who have to consciously calculate algorithms, the twins had the ability to unconsciously use calendrical algorithm. Their use of an unconscious calendrical algorithm allowed them to recall a day of the week that a particular date in the past or in the future would fall on. The twins were so impressive that they could tell the weather and the events that occurred, of any day in their lives. You could give them a specific date in their life and their eyes would roll, and then fixate for a moment, and they would tell you the weather or the events that occurred in their monotonous voice. The magnitude of the twins’ memory seemed limitless and the way they are able to retrieve those memories.

Although the twins were remarkable in retrieving memories in the past, but they also had a passion and grasp of numbers. The twins would communicate with each other, not by simply talking, but by exchanging six-figure numbers. John, for example, would say a six-figure number and Michael would catch the number, and would smile and savor it. Michael would then turn another six-figure number to John, who would also respond the same way Michael did when he received his six-figure number. Most people would simply think that were just throwing numbers at each other, although they were doing so. However, all of the six-figure numbers, which the twins had exchange were primes. The twins were able to reach twelve-figure prime numbers, which seems impossible for normal people to think of without any technology device. There was no simple method to obtain prime numbers so easily, unless you used a sophisticated computer—and yea the twins were doing it. The twins made “sense” and had “feelings” with the use of numbers. The perfect universe they imagined would be a universe and heaven of numbers.

As the twins became adults, they were separated and deprived of their numerical “communion” with each other. They had little to no time and opportunity for any communication with each other as their jobs have taken away their personal time. Being deprived of their numerical communion, they seem to have lost their numerical powers to obtain primes.