By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
An Einstein-like maxim opens into a warning about how quickly lines of people can become cruel systems.
The page moves from counting and value into crowd logic, punishment, and historical violence. Even with its compressed phrasing, it reads as a warning against reducing people to process.
'''Einstein quote unattributed in full ('Not everything that counts can be counted...') followed by a wry historical threat: line up twenty people with long lives 'and you will be back in ancient Rome / and don't ever underestimate the viciousness of that line.''''