Seventeen

San Martin, Gonzalo · 27 Mar 2002, 17:12 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: "San Martin, Gonzalo" <SanMartinG at logica.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Seventeen
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:12:04 -0000
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See http://pages.globetrotter.net/sdesr/nu17.htm for a multitude of
significances (biblical and otherwise) of the number seventeen.

Gonzalo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes [mailto:ddanehy at siebel.com]
> Sent: 27 March 2002 17:08
> To: 'urth at urth.net'
> Subject: RE: (urth) Seventeen
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> Well, 17 is a big number for Discordians (also 5 and 23).
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Straight [mailto:straight at email.unc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:02 AM
> To: urth
> Subject: (urth) Seventeen
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> I recently found out that another SF writer is enamored of the number
> seventeen: apparently most of Steven Brust's novels have 17 chapters
> (starting with the first Dragaera novel, which features a=20
> society with 17
> "Houses").
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> So what is it about 17 that Wolfe and Brust (and others?)=20
> might latch on
> to it?  That it is prime?  Fondness for magazines like Sassy and YM?
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> Are there older traditions that see importance in the number 17 (like
> Christians with 3, 7, and 12?)
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> -Rostrum=20

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