“Some Measurements”
Josef Kaplan
Four feet.
Fourteen feet, six inches.
Thirty-six centimeters.
Thirty meters.
Forty centimeters.
Nine-hundred and twenty-six kilometers.
A mile.
A mile and a half.
A mile and three-quarters.
And one quarter.
And twenty-five millimeters.
Twenty-five milliseconds.
Ten minutes.
Nineteen thousand seconds.
Nine times ten half hours.
One hundred and fifty-eight and a half pounds.
Pages and pages.
Stones and stones.
Two stone of wool, wax.
Sugar and salt.
Beef and mutton.
A jug of mutton.
A liter in a big glass vase.
A gallon jug.
65,000 Sky Points.
A pint poured out across two meters.
Two square nautical miles.
Six-thousand, eight-hundred and six square feet.
Eight-hundred thousand gross square feet.
Ninety-five grams.
Within ten square feet.
Within eleven square yards.
Within the eyelid’s dome.
Either twenty or forty feet.
Either one-hundred and two inches or one-hundred and fourteen inches.