Subj : Big fat warning, oh my!
To   : Curtis Johnson
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Sun Oct 29 2000 03:55 am

 JW> I had the privledge of interviewing (for two hours) Noam
 JW> Chomsky; during a commercial break I sez t' him: "Yer Father
 JW> is/was a Hebrew Scholar...is there ANY validity to Gematria?
 JW> He assured me that there was not. Drat. Santa Claus, Easter
 JW> Bunny, Tinker Bell, Tooth Fairy...now that. Mere reality is a
 JW> drag, y'know? :-)

 CJ> Numerology is a much easier fallacy to fall into if your
 CJ> language has no separate characters for numerals.

 CJ> Nitpick--it's GMark that has the variant endings.

 JW> Turnabout is fair play. :-) Yes. Drat.

 CJ> Hee-hee.

        It was my reference to my _Thought Mosaic_ (stopping at 613
and then beginning again after some time) that began this thread in
which I, obviously, have little or no interest.  For the information
of those who wish to continue such nonsense I added another just a day
or two ago and I think the number is now up to about 638 or so.
Perhaps some critique of my mystical play of numbers is required
each time I add one.  

        I can also count them in hex if that would be more
fascinating and then the mystery would receive a few more turns of
the screw (apologies to Henry James) to ratchet up into REAL
Halloween fun.  

Frank

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 * Origin: Maybe in 5000 years (1:396/45.12)

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