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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:48 pm
This is is a cross-post from the Equinox thread, where a few people have noticed that the number 23 pops up a number of times in LG15. I thought y'all might think it's worth doing a separate study of its significance, if any. Anyway, here's a long bit from over there:
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xrockette19x wrote:
that could just be coincidence, with the 23 thing?
TheFatLady wrote:
There used to be a long tradition (maybe still is, though I'm not much connected to screenwriters any more) of putting the number 23 in various places in TV and film scripts as a subtle reference to the cult classic Illuminatus!, a trilogy of novels by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Since the LG15's Creators are now known to be budding Hollywood types, they could just be following this insider's practice.
Hm-m-m--then again, the Illuminati were an ancient secret society that also might have a religious branch . . .
Clearly, this whole LG thing is making me lose my mind.
Sfonzarelli wrote:
You're not losing your mind at all. Robert Anton Wilson was obsessed with Aleister Crowley and most fans of the former are fans of the latter, and the inverse could also be said to be true.
The subject of "The Illuminati" is complicated. The 800-page Illuminatus trilogy is the SHORT version of the story.