Triple Nelson!!!333!!!

[desperance]

How I was talking about waymarks t'other day, significant numbers in book production?

Page 333. Just hit it. Always a major moment. I'm English, I'm a cricket fan, I can't help it: 111 is a hugely significant number, as is any multiple. 111 is a Nelson, because the admiral of that ilk had one eye and one arm and one ... well, whatever; Nelson is actually a madly unlucky score for the English, it's remarkable how many English batsmen get out on 111 or multiples thereof, but just take your feet off the floor and the moment will pass, we'll be on 334 before you know it and if we even get as far as 444 I'll be so close to the end it'll be a gallop.

Yay. I just love turning this particular page.

Comments

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Cricket. And I'm otherwise engaged in reading Michael Chabon's Summerland, which would be very nice if it didn't have so much baseball (or, as I prefer to spell it, base-ball) in it. I'm cursed. :-((

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. At least this is sport as periphery to Literachure. Be good and don't grumble, or I'll start posting about Formula One.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Yeuchhh.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Number of the demi-beast!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Mmm-hmm. This book is a beast, but I hope - please! - that this is not the midpoint...

Barry has taken to slumping all over my digibox, which has a numerical readout of whatever channel it's tuned to. Camera in hand, I tried very hard to tune it to 666. Alas: no such channel exists, and it won't let you tune in a fake one. Sigh.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Treble Nelson - that means one fat umpire flat on his face - you know, left foot, right foot . . .