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Instances of the Number 3
Salley Vickers
For Rupert Kingfisher,
whose play The Prisoner’s Dilemma first suggested to me the creative possibilities in the number 3
It must have required many ages to discover that a brace of pheasants and a couple of days were both instances of the number 2: the degree of abstraction involved is far from easy…BERTRAND RUSSELLI doubt not of my own salvation; and in whom can I have such occasion of doubt as in my Self? When I come to heaven, shall I be able to say to any there, Lord! how got you hither? Was any man less likely to come hither than I?JOHN DONNE, Sermon VIII, 371
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