Time and Chance
“Time and chance happeneth to them all.”
— Ecclesiastes 9-11
“With the passage of time, everyone participated in the ever-increasingly secret lottery.”
— Summary of Borges’s Lottery
The winning evening lottery number for Sunday, September 19, 2004, and for Thursday, September 23, 2004, in the State of Grace (Kelly) was
408.
See a 9/20/04 story about 408
and a 1/4/03 story about Grace and jazz.
From the latter:
Now you has jazz.
— Cole Porter, lyric for “High Society,”
set in Newport, Rhode Island, 1956
Note that yesterday’s entries dealt with “the jazz church” and that Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004– the first of the “408” days above– was the date of death of Ellis Marsalis Sr., patriarch of a family of jazz musicians. The second of the “408” days above– yesterday– was Ray Charles’s birthday.
In Ray We Trust
June 28, 2004 cover
by Eric Palma