Famous composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) had what is quite uncommonly referred to as triskaidekaphobia, and more commonly known as a fear of the number 13. He did everything in his power to avoid any association with the number, even taking an "a" out of the name Aaron for the title of his opera, Moses and Aron so it would contain less than 13 letters. The strangest, and possibly unnerving part of this short story, is that Arnold Shoenberg died on Friday the 13th, June, 1951 at the age of 76. What's so unnatural about that? Sure he died on Firday the 13th, but look closer...add some of the numbers up.
June=6
1951=1+9+5+1=16=1+6=7
7+6=13
and now, quite obviously, his age
76=7+6=13
13, 13, 13
Is it really possible to dismiss something like that as just sheer coincidence? Perhaps his fear was founded after all. Maybe Arnold Schoenberg was one of the unlucky few who was able to put together that which is commonly dismissed and, with his knowledge, see beyond the veil of our reality into the madness that could lay just beneath. Or maybe he was just crazy, and the circumstance of his death no more than a coincidence.
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I think it's just a coincidence. If you really wanted to get into it, you could probably make those numbers add up to anything.
ReplyDeleteYea, but there is the fact that they do add up to that
ReplyDeleteAnd I can't see too many other ways in which they could add up, although I'm sure there are a few.
ReplyDeleteHe died on my birthday. That's sad. Poor guy didn't know what hit him. How did he die anyhow?
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