June 9, 2008

  • Interpret This, continued:

    Lying Rhymes

    Readers of the previous entry
    who wish to practice their pardes
    may contemplate the following:

    NY Lottery June 9, 2008: mid-day 007, evening 563

     
    The evening 563 may, as in other recent entries, be interpreted as a page number in Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics, 1995). From that page:

    "He brings out the mandala he found.
    'What's it mean?'
    [....]
    Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere... a spell [...]. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night...."

    In lieu of Slothrop's mandala, here
    is another, from the Dante link
    in today's previous entry:

    Christ and the four elements, 1495

    Christ and the Four Elements

    This 1495 image is found in
    The Janus
    Faces of Genius:
    The Role of Alchemy
    in Newton's Thought,
    by B. J. T. Dobbs,
    Cambridge University Press,
    2002, p. 85

    Related mandalas:

    Diamond arrangement of the four elements

    and

    Logo by Steven H. Cullinane for website on finite geometry

    For further details,
    click on any of the
    three mandalas above.

    "For every kind of vampire,
    there is a kind of cross."

    -- Thomas Pynchon, quoted
    here on 9/13, 2007

    (As for today's New York Lottery midday number 007, see (for instance) Edward Rothstein in today's New York Times on paradise, and also Tom Stoppard on heaven as "just a lying rhyme" for seven.)

    Time of entry: 10:20:55 PM