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Russell's misheard lyrics no. #787,381: For a long, long time I thought that song was about "Red-Eyed Love."

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We learn that on April 23rd 1992 there was evidence from the COBE satellite which was said by Michael Turner of the University of Chicago to be the Holy Grail of cosmology and was equally lauded by Stephen Hawking as ' the scientific discovery of the century - if not all time'. It was about how 'cosmic structure formation... resulted from random quantum flux, the smallest phenomenon in nature' (p.167).
There are implications here for the Bins thesis which are of some magnitude if we collapse them with 10 to the power of 23 molecules of gas quoted by F.David Peat in his book on synchronicity and Penrose's quoting of 10 to the 10 to the 23 chance of a 'Creator' finding the spot in phase space that would accommodate a universe or the 23 chromosomes from the female and 23 from the male that forms the basic structure of that weird phenomenon of self-reflexive life itself. So, yes, Sinclair with his connection to Burroughs who kicked of the '23'Enigma should, I think, be interested.

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Some other people who were interested in synchronicity and the 23 Enigma were the rave collective Spiral Tribe.
In his brilliant history of rave culture, "Energy Flash," Simon Reynolds gives the following account of meeting them -

"I first met Spiral Tribe a few months prior to Castlemorton. Within minutes, I'm informed that I'm already part of the cosmic 'spiral.' Synchronicity is at work: my T-shirt, of sampler-wielding cyber-punks The Young Gods, happens to have a luminous spiral in the middle. What's more, there are pictures of bees on the sleeves, which echo a recent Spiral Tribe rave at a farm, where a hive was knocked over, unleashing a vast cloud of bees. Even more synchronistically, the farm was in Hertfordshire, a county with which the Tribe claim a 'special connection,' and where I just so happen to have spent my childhood. The Tribe grin like maniacs, each coincidence confirming their mystical worldview.
A week after the squat-party, I get the chance to interrogate Spiral Tribe in the aftermath of another event, this time at a derelict pub. On the wall, someone has aerosol-sprayed a pentogram with the number 23 in one corner. The uncanny power and alleged omnipresence of the number 23 is one of a motley array of mystical beliefs to which the Spirals subscribe. All Spiral Tribe phone lines contain the number. And Castlemorton kicked off on 23 May. '23 is gonna slap you in the face, freak you out, it'll really start to make you doubt your security in what you know,' the Tribe's spokesman warns me, promising that I'll start seeing the number all over the place. (I don't)"

Reynolds then goes on to mention that some of the Spirals eventually settled in Paris, where they founded the Network 23 record label, however (quote) -

"...others in the Spiral milieu succumbed to drug abuse, becoming serious psychonauts (in the Tribal worldview, LSD and ketamine had long been regarded as altogether more hardcore than 'fluffy' Ecstasy), junkies, crackheads, or just members of 'the Brew Crew.'"

For more on Spiral Tribe and Network 23, go to their excellent MySpace site.

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Let's face it, mate. The case is now proved. It's over and it's all been worthwhile. After all the carping on about Iain we finally demonstrated that he was a prohetic writer.Who would have expected something like Ipswich to have happened. That seemed to be the end and I was ready to contribute no more. But then Falsedog's telling us about that film is so much an ACOP given the circumstances that I do think m8e should have the last word since it is his thread...

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Let's face it, mate. The case is now proved. It's over and it's all been worthwhile. After all the carping on about Iain we finally demonstrated that he was a prohetic writer.Who would have expected something like Ipswich to have happened. That seemed to be the end and I was ready to contribute no more. But then Falsedog's telling us about that film is so much an ACOP given the circumstances that I do think m8e should have the last word since it is his thread...

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There are no "last words," other than forlorn attempts to entropically stanch the forever onward rush of negentropic chaotic happenstance.

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It's originally from 'Alice In Wonderland' and famously so.

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ANAAL NATHRAKH

April, 21 2007 at Purple Turtle
Camden, London,
Cost :

Infernal Damnation festival - an announcement will doubtless appear on www.arcanepromotions.co.uk to this effect within the next few days with info on other bands etc.

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Yo, Mateylicious: Did you know about <a href=http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_ID=11883682&friendid=8908955 target=_blank>this one</a>?

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ANAAL NATHRAKH

April, 21 2007 at Purple Turtle
Camden, London,
Cost :

Infernal Damnation festival - an announcement will doubtless appear on www.arcanepromotions.co.uk to this effect within the next few days with info on other bands etc.

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I didn't. Until just now.

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