— Bernard Holland in
The New York Times
Monday, May 20, 1996
The headline for Edward Rothstein’s “Connections” column in The New York Times of Monday, March 26, 2007, was “Texts That Run Rings Around Everyday Linear Logic.”
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The New York Lottery,
Friday, March 30, 2007: Mid-day 002 Evening 085 |
Continuing yesterday’s lottery meditation, let us examine today’s New York results in the light of Rothstein’s essay. The literary “ring” structure he describes is not immediately apparent in Friday’s numbers, although the mid-day number, 002– which in the I Ching signifies yin, the feminine, receptive principle– might be interpreted as referring to a ring of sorts.
Illustration from
an entry of
March 2, 2004
“A random selection from Hopkins’s journal shows how the sun acts as a focus….”
year’s entry on this date provides,
like the last and first pages of
Finnegans Wake, an example
of literary “ring” structure.
Today’s New York evening number,
85, reinforces this “ring” reference.
For related material, see
an entry for Reba McEntire’s
birthday four years ago.