GRGR (13ff): Thirty-two episodes

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "Part 3 of the novel includes thirty-two episodes, perhaps because the 
 gravitational  pull on matter is a constant thirty-two feet per second and 
 perhaps the number is significant in Kabbalistic mythology, where it is 
 associated with the aquisition of wisdom. Specifically, Jahweh is thought to 
 have inscribed his being in thirty-two paths of knowledge, comprising the ten 
 numbers of the  Sephirot and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet [: 
 that are related  to the 22 paths on the Tree of Life & the 22 Tarot cards of 
 the Great Arcanum -  KFL]. C.G. Jung (Collected Works 12: 205-6) quotes one 
 Kabbalistic text in  which the number thirty-two represents 'the 
 differentiation which appears in  the organic world; not creative generation, 
 but rather the plan and  arrangement of the various forms of created things 
 which the creator has  modelled'. In the open field of 'the Zone', a 
 geographical slate momentarily  wiped clean, Tyrone Slothrop thus begins his 
 quest for wisdom". (Weisenburger: GRC, p. 149) - KFL