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the square root of first is ash

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I just learned the word for grey in Japanese; haiiro. It's written 灰色. Literally, "the color of ash". The first kanji is the ash part, the second is "color". The ash kanji 灰 is obviously derived from the kanji for fire; 火. The square root of fire is ash!