Strange Bedfellows
The above excerpt from Google News was suggested
- by David Lavery’s June 19 weblog entry “Future Books,”
- by an example of this sort of book– “The Holy of Holies: The Constituents of Emptiness,”
- by the June 19 NY Lottery midday number 354 (the name of an empty page in Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose, Library of America, 1997), and
- by the musical meaning of the numbers 3, 5, 4– the frequency ratios of the notes G, E, C
and hence the numerical equivalent of the NBC chimes.