Quotients Divisors Modulae

[cjeffries at seanet.com]

For what it's worth, there's a 23 in CL49, the number of years the poker 
player at the SF airport has been averaging out his returns: 
"Twenty-three years.  I'll never get ahead of it.  Why don't I quit?"

I mention this because I just reread that book and, while I wasn't 
specifically looking for 23s, did notice that one (the only one I saw); I 
had myself been sensitized to the number 23 through Burroughs and R A 
Wilson (who both seem to have taken it from the I Ching, where Hexagram 
23 pertains to "crisis" or "chaos.")  There is nothing in this to prove 
Pynchon ever deliberately put 23s into his work for that reason; if he 
did, limiting himself to one instance in that book shows admirable 
restraint.  Certainly is odd about the M&D page numbers though.