[UA] pi

[Tim Toner]

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From: <stuartanderson at uswest.net>
To: Unknown Armies mailing list <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: [UA] pi
>One of
> the cleanest, most succinct presentations I've ever seen of
> the ideas in the Illuminati books or _Foucault's Pendulum_
> or similar books. Blew me away.

I flipped my lid at the scene in the taxi cab, when the Hassidic starts
beating the crap out of the protagonist.  Makes _The Chosen_ take on a whole
new light.

>     Has anyone developed a magick based on math? Calcumancy
> or something? I think I could do a nice one, but I am, as
> I've posted previously, "redefining 'sloth' for a generation
> of slackers." I don't know if I want to compromise my
> commitment to inactivity at this time.
> --Stu

Someone already mentioned the Pythagoreans, who have a ready-made
taboo--beans.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a950707a.html


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