New York Lottery today—
Without imagination, these digits are a meaningless jumble.
With imagination…
608 might refer to June 8, the Saint's Day of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(See the date July 29, 2002, that appeared in an earlier post today
as the publication date of Geometrical Landscapes . In this
journal, a post on that date, "At Random," referred to Hopkins.)
8516 might refer to 8/5/1916. A check of a hometown newspaper
on that date yields…
"St. Joseph's Garden Party and Bazaar 22, 23, 24.
Pictures. Everybody Welcome. Admission to Garden Ten Cents"
And in the evening…
937 might refer to a post on the nihilistic philosophy of Joan Didion, and
7609 might refer to an occurrence of these digits in a link
to "7/11" in a post from the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola last year.
For a more cynical view of lottery hermeneutics, see
"High on RAM (overload)," by Jo Lyxe.
Happy birthday to Stevie Nicks.