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A bit hip to 23. Seek to know more.
Posted by: coogan ( self, usa ) on February 02, 1998 at 11:55:27:
In "One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," 1959, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the number of prisoners that march out for forced labor in Siberia: 23. In Plutarch, didn't Julius Caesar get 23 stab wounds from Brutus et al? Who started this 23 bit? Wm. S. Burroughs and R.A. 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?
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