(This post's title was appropriated from a novel by Brian Morton.)
Yesterday's evening New York Lottery— 229 and 9294.
Alex Ross in the online New Yorker quotes a bad essay he wrote in college titled…
“The Grand Hotel Abyss: History and Violence in ‘The Shining,’”
which purports to analyze the famous scene in which Jack Nicholson
types the phrase “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”:
Nicholson has become a chomping-machine of language,
recycling stock phrases, appropriating whatever
drifts into his path. His words are nothing but echoes….
The lottery's 229 may be interpreted as "2/29." See a post from that date in 2008
involving echoes and the abyss.
The lottery's 9294 may be interpreted as "9/2/94." A search for that date yields
an article from Pacific Stars and Stripes—
That article is echoed by a later Doonesbury caricature
of a professor discussing echoes in black rhetoric. That
caricature is from the 2/29 post—
