NUMBER
23 COINCIDENCE SUPERSTITION
This
may seem like a strange question, it may be something,
it may be nothing but I thought I´d ask it
anyway. My girlfriend (Colombian) has for the past
6 or so months been followed by the number 23. It
seems to be everywhere: the number of the flat she
stayed in in London, the number of her ex-boyfriends
flat, hand written on a wall in front of her in
a café, the number of the street we stayed
on in Cuba and the year of the film festival in
the same place, the only winning number on a lottery
ticket, she was discussing this subject in the back
of a cab, the fare: 23 pounds… there are more.
At first I thought it was just her noticing this
number above all others but having travelled with
her for a little while I have to admit it does seem
odd.
Does
it mean anything? Am I being sucked into her psychosis?
We would very much appreciate your expert opinion.
 Your
email came to me while I was updating this section
of the website about coincidences. At the same time
I was listening to my radio archives and the programme
about coincidences (There's a clip on the homepage
page for this section) They were talking about strange
number correlation and asking people in the street
about sharing the same birthday date on the 24th
of a month. (Not 23 but I notice that your email
is yourname22@aol.com, the message about 23 and
the radio saying 24. Makes: 22, 23, 24, Odd ehh!)
Sometimes people can get a obsessive about coincidences
but also sometimes they really do happen!
The late author William Burroughs was so obsessed
by numeric coincidences surrounding 23, he kept
a scrapbook of his findings. It is said he was alerted
to the number's power when a Captain Clark told
him he had run a ferry from Spain to Morocco with
no problem for 23 years. Hours later it sank, killing
the skipper. And pop band Psychic TV are so obsessed
with 23 that at one point they made the Guinness
Book of World Records by releasing 23 albums on
the 23rd day of 23 months in a row. They were influenced
by the occultist Aleister Crowley who had been convinced
of the power of 23. And for the record, I live at
number 23 and spent my childhood at a house numbered
23. When I met the medium Doris Stokes she said
to me that 23 would be significant in my life. When
I met my future wife - she lived at house number
23.
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