They live from a Stone whose essence is most pure. If you have never heard of it I shall name it for you here. It is called Lapsit exillis.
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For an interpretation
of 588, see
Guy Fawkes Day: Twilight Kingdom,
Grail: The Hermeneutics of Chance,
Camelot: The Legend Continues,
A Case for Indiana Jones,
Spots of Time Revisited.
For an interpretation
of 715, see
7/15, Ein Bild:
"Und was fur
ein Bild des Christentums
ist dabei herausgekommen?"
The number 588 above
is clearly a MacGuffin.
Whether it represents
any deeper reality is
an open question.
"It is a very difficult
philosophical question,
the question of
what 'random' is."
— Herbert Robbins, co-author
of What is Mathematics?