[PW] Visa and the number of the beast

[Dennis Lien]

At 03:41 PM 12/9/2007, you wrote:
>A side issue of no real help but great entertainment value: Mosteller
>and Tukey, in "Exploratory Data Analysis" have an index entry which
>reads Beast, Number of . . . 666"  On page 666, there is a literature
>reference to the KJV, Revelation 13:18.
>
>Having never written so long a work, I once contented myself with an
>index entry "Beast, Half of . . . 333"  Each person should be allowed
>one act of homage in their lives.  That was mine.

There are also a couple of books/stories out there referencing
668: THE NEIGHBOR OF THE BEAST (one by the late Charles Grant
under his "Lionel Fenn" pseudonym).

In a phone chat a few months ago with my sometime-actress ex-wife,
we came up with the concept of 740, which is the number of the
Beast before the Beast's agent takes out his ten per cent.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.ed