hypothesis is doing this weird thing where it highlights both pages but this annotation is for the second to last stanza on this page where it begins with "Fusiturricula slowly...". This part, I think, speaks to the sense of significant insignificance, in that this shell she speaks of is simply just a shell yet it also is not, it is something more, it is a tangible representation of Archimedes' mathematical epiphanies, since it is a prime example of the golden spiral/ ratio.

I wasn't sure what this meant but it means either a rolling or revolving motion or a single turn of a spiral or coil.

this part of the poem reminds me of "Archimedes Lullaby" and the the themes of math present in nature, but specifically the golden spiral. It is interesting how Schackenberg describes this genus of sea snails' shell as having "inherited clairvoyance", which I think means the inherent sense of the shell reflecting this cosmic sense of universality with the golden spiral/ ratio, since such spirals are also found in galaxy formations, creating almost this sense of divinity for the shell.

I can't help but see this last section as Archimedes eternally counting grains of sand, which I believe may represent the cast and almost limitless amount of information about the universe, in his "half-filled universe" as a sort of eternal heaven or hell? I would think it would be heaven since it seems the poem is about understanding the infinite in context of the universe but there also seems to be a undertone of hellishness to it, because who wants to be counting grains of sand forever?

it is interesting how it is a "Roman" solider. I wonder if this part and the war images from earlier sort of represent a cultural war between the Greeks and Romans?

does this go back to the beginning of the poem, where Yuan speaks of his "half filled universe?"

I suppose in this sense, what Archimedes' is missing is the ability to know everything, like the puzzling paradoxical questions that keep Mathematicians with their existential crises and thirst for knowledge up at night. Maybe the grains of sand represent the seemingly infinite amount of information there is to know about the universe, and Archimedes is trying to count the sand to try to understand.

this part of the poem is talking about Archemides' golden ratio and how unlocking this knowledge is more valuable than all the plunder-able treasures. The golden ratio was extremely important to Greek culture, they even used this ratio to build the Parthenon.

You really get the "lullaby" sense in these few lines. The phrase "water waves sweep" specifically almost feels like a wave on your tongue when you say it, the alliteration in "water waves" almost resembles the low tide that pushes along the shore and the word "sweep" almost acting like the retrieval of the wave back to the ocean. This sense is then reinforced the "back and forth" that follows, enforcing the cyclical and repetitive nature of the sense of infinity being explored.

the imagery in this part of them poem is from such a macro sense, it's almost omniscient, which is interesting considering the title of the poem in that a pair of lovers will be canonized into saints.

shows the age of the speaker, probably middle aged or older.