Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0016317, Fri, 2 May 2008 08:55:18 EDT

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Re: SIGNS: Some responses (the name Rebecca, numbers, beach plums)
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In a message dated 02/05/2008 11:43:29 GMT Standard Time,
NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU writes:

Not a zero, as Jansy said. Dolinin relates it to various things.
Was it someone here who said that if the third call was the same
mistake, it would make 666?



I said that, in Dec. 2004, and pointed out that Christianly it is the number
of the Beast, the Antichrist, death, etc. etc. But I also pointed out that
Jewishly, by Gematria, three 6s make 18, which is life ([chet=8] + [yud=10]).
So that as a symbol or sign the three 6s are completely ambiguous.

Anthony Stadlen





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