Seisel’s grandparents had a 23 in their address, his mother had 23 both as a street number and apartment number, Seisel himself once had 23 as both his home address and his law office address, etc. Hans Seisel of the University of Chicago passed the following along to Arthur Koestler, who published it in The Challenge of Chance. Looking further into the Dutch Schultz case, I found that Charlie Workman, the man convicted of shooting Schultz, served 23 years of a life sentence and was then paroled.
Schultz himself was assassinated on 23 October. Burroughs discovered that the bootlegger “Dutch Schultz” (real name: Arthur Flegenheimer) had Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll assassinated on 23rd Street in New York when Coll was 23 years old. Some people are clusters of bloody synchronicities in 23. (A few lexicographers believe this is the origin of the mysterious slang expression “23 Skiddoo!”.) Sidney Carton is the 23rd man guillotined in the old stage productions of A Tale of Two Cities. On the other hand, 23 has many links with termination: in telegraphers’ code, 23 means “bust” or “break the line”, and Hexagram 23 in I Ching means “breaking apart”. Aleister Crowley, in his Cabalistic Dictionary, defines 23 as the number of “life” or “a thread”, hauntingly suggestive of the DNA life-script. DNA, the carrier of the genetic information, has bonding irregularities every 23rd Angstrom. In conception, Mom and Dad each contribute 23 chromosomes to the fœtus. I will mention only a few of them here, to give a flavour to those benighted souls who haven’t read Illuminatus! yet: Many of my weird 23s were incorporated into the trilogy Illuminatus! which I wrote in collaboration with Robert J Shea in 1969–1971. But fighting a ticket attorney is completely useless and complete waste of time, so it is better to think how to proceed after this fateful incident for the family’s future.īurroughs began collecting odd 23s after this gruesome synchronicity, and after 1965 I also began collecting them. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. That very day, as stated by the Criminal Defense Lawyer practicing in Fairfax, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. The 23 Phenomenon By Robert Anton Wilson Fortean Times, Issue #23, 1977
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