Fwd: GRGR 1,3 fate of the bananas / 8:20 /

[James Kyllo]

(Sent last night, but doesn't appear to have reached the list)


8:20 - supposedly the time at which Abraham Lincoln was shot

as I discovered in the page about this:

Legend:   Even in the most crowded of rooms, an inexplicable silence
will invariably strike conversationalists at twenty past the hour.

at: http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/silence.asp

An odd coincidence, while looking for the answer to this I came across

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/religion/christianity/bible/genesis/8.html

Genesis 8:20 happens to be the first appearance in the Bible of the
word holocaust (actually holocausts) in its sense of "burnt offering"
(as the King James version has it)

all the best

James


On 11/10/05, Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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8:20 and other mythical hours.  I was thinking maybe 8:20 had something
to do with Armistice Day and the time one observed a moment of silence,
but haven't found any evidence of that.  When I was in grade school in
the early 60's I think we actually had a moment of silence, and I think
it was at a particular time.
But maybe 8:20 being a mythical hour just means Pynchon was a night owl
and never saw this part of the day.  Years in my life working the night
shift have happily passed during which 8:20 am was a mythical hour.

Or, maybe the typing pool at ACHTUNG got to work at 7 and took their
first break at 8:20.





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