Cat Stevens: Numbers (Island)
Penny Valentine, Street Life, 29 November 1975
THIS ALBUM is sub-titled 'A Pythagorean Theory Tale'. Pythagoras, you may remember, had a theory that the education system approved of, about the square of the hypoteneuse being equal to the sums of the squares of the other two sides. A theory for right-angled triangles. Is Cat Stevens a right-angled triangle? Let us move on...
Total word count of piece: 375
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