Monday, April 21, 2025
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The Harrowing of Literary Hell
Fans of the novel The Eight by Katherine Neville may recall
that the date April 4 plays a significant role in that fiction.
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Death Working Backwards:
“The Seventh Seal” Meets “The Sixth Sense”
"All politics is local"
— Legendary Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas “Tip” O'Neill (D-MA).
And theology?
At Russell, PA, an aerial view of Pine Grove Cemetery —
Note that the road running next to Pine Grove Cemetery —
Russell's Liberty St. — transforms just west of US Route 62
into Pennsylvania Route 957.
For fans of stories by Christian writer C. S. Lewis, who presented a theory
that over the first Easter weekend, Death started "working backwards,"
there is the fact that 957 backwards is 759. That number has special
meaning in the theory of R. T. Curtis's "Miracle Octad Generator."
And then there is the Tolkien phrase "Into the West" . . . .