J. M. Bernstein (previous post) has written of moving toward "a Marxist hermeneutic."
I prefer lottery hermeneutics.
Some background from Bernstein—
I would argue that at least sometimes, lottery numbers may be regarded, according to Bernstein's definition, as story statements. For instance—
Today's New York State Lottery— Midday 389, Evening 828.
For the significance of 389, see
“A Mad Day’s Work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich.
The Evolution of Concepts of Space and Symmetry,”
by Pierre Cartier, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society,
Vol. 38 (2001) No. 4, beginning on page 389.
The philosophical import of page 389 is perhaps merely in Cartier's title (see previous post).
For the significance of 828, see 8/28, the feast of St. Augustine, in 2006.
See also Halloween 2007. (Happy birthday, Dan Brown.)