In a message dated 28/05/2008 19:35:45 GMT Standard Time, jansy@AETERN.US
writes:
A real scientist would search for other numerical references ( twelve,
fourteen, twenty, ninety-two...) but I rest my case without having
gone further than my own "forty winks"... A
terrible woman aged forty, or a man? Forty diamonds, forty
lies, forty thieves?
And from "Signs and Symbols":
<< Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful
businessman, was now wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of
almost forty years standing. They seldom saw him and had
nicknamed him " the Prince." >>
Please forgive my delay in getting back to this List to report after the
seminar of Sunday 11 May. I have had some unexpected and unwelcome distractions.
But I will be back soon, and would like the discussion of "Signs and
Symbols" to resume.
Anthony Stadlen