Given an electric viola da gamba and asked to express with it the following thought: that while the newspapers often quote this number or that, it is also possible to extract numbers from the accumulation of qualitative data in newspapers. When the gamba owner is about to pull out of town in his Model T Ford, we see him asleep across the front seat. Earlier, I check my email in the middle of the night to find a message reading: "These are the traces of the world's love for you."