Religion of the Lottery:
Ground Zero Revisited
The midday New York lottery number for Thursday, May 6, 2004, the National Day of Prayer, was
000.
Since the log24 entry for the preceding day (Wednesday) was written in gratitude for a new transcription of Bach, and the log24 entry for the following day (today) has the time 11:11, signifying peace, the following seems as good a religious interpretation of yesterday’s lottery as any:
“In the Mass in B-Minor, Bach constructs a twenty-one-movement symmetry in which the Crucifixus is placed precisely between the Gratias and the Dona Nobis Pacem.“
— Timothy A. Smith,
Intentionality and Meaningfulness
in Bach’s Cyclical Works
“Nothing is random.”
— Mark Helprin,
Winter’s Tale