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The Teaching
master number — work that made other work possible
Thirty-three is the Master Teacher, the rarest reduction in the system. Its shelf holds the texts about transmission: the studios that were really schools, the assistants who became the next generation, the single manual or single serial that taught a whole cohort how the job is done. Almost nothing reduces to 33, and what does is nearly always about somebody else’s career.
How to read this shelf. Read these as the reference’s footnote about itself. Everything Catzye can explain, it learned from something on this shelf.
Where it overreaches. The 33 gives itself away entirely. The teachers here are frequently better remembered than read.
7 texts reduce to 33
Glossary
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