The Number of the Beast is 666, by William Blake
Those of you into numerology might find this interesting: The count for visitors to ye olde blogge yesterday was ...
666
Wonder if somebody is trying to tell me something ?
Of course, some scholars believe the number of the beast is 616. In which case, never mind ...
616?
ReplyDeleteWait a minute, all those heavy metal bands are wrong! Say it ain't so!
667: The neighbor of the Beast.
ReplyDeleteYeah. And 626, the guy who lives across the street from the beast ...
ReplyDeleteI have a buddy who wrote an illustrated book, back when Bantam's HQ was still 666 Fifth Avenue. The artist was very religious, and when they went to visit Bantam, they took him in via a side door so he wouldn't freak out when he saw the number.
Lot of folks are superstitious about something. No thirteenth floors in hotel or office buildings, black cats, broken mirrors, walking under a ladder, hat on the bed, spilled salt over the shoulder and don't speak the Devil's name out loud because that draws his attention ...
Well... there was a time when I lived in apartment 13 in building 12813...
ReplyDeleteBut I thought the number of the beast was 202-456-1414.
Used to be his number, but I think he has a 214 area code now. Warmer down there, he's right at home.
ReplyDeleteI recall A Heinlein book way back were he wrote that the original translation was actually 6 to the 6th power to the 6th power.
ReplyDeleteThat's an awfully damn big number. Could you see Iron Maiden trying to use that as a chorus?
How many guys in Iron Maiden? Four? Six? If you count the roadies and assume ten fingers and ten toes each, anything past six cubed is gonna be beyond them ...
ReplyDeleteThe State gave me an ID with 666 in it - bastards! I'm still looking for the "bummer of a birthmark".
ReplyDelete...the guy living across the street is Death - lawns never green.
Oh, and the guy who my ex-wife left me for? Nickname in High School was "Satan" and he and the ex had a daughter born on June 6th, 1996. And yes, in this case the apple did not fall far from the tree.
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