: : Wilson don't count, do they? These writers appear to use 23 ironically. They ape true believers and any hope of finding significance in occurrences of 23. They deploy references to 23 to disturb readers, to foster a sense to paranoia, to undermine the smug, to worry to herd, and to mock the societies of secrets. Or do they? : : --
: : It doesn't seem that way to me. While their motives may be just
: : that, there may be something more sincere to it. After all, R.A.
: : Wilson is likely Malaclypse the Younger, who wrote the Principia
: : Discordia, which quotes the Law of Fives, from which the 23 occurrences
: : are derived.
: : -L. Kynes
: In "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" they had to line up by 5 all the time, during roll calls, counting, and marching from work to camp....
: -Destini
Russian numerals vary in accordance to translation, due to something we get from Proto-Indo-European called 'declension'. Therefore, it's actually impossible to determine the number of instances of '23' in One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. (Yes, I'm an I.b. kid, and I can't spell 'bacchulauerate'. Please advise)
None.
