flax-golden tales: the magic number

the magic number

Math has never been my strong suit, but I do love numbers individually when they don't require addition or subtraction or complex calculations. When they can just be what they are and not change.

When I learned them in school I gave them all personalities. 4 was the peacemaker. 6 had an attitude problem.

3 was always my favorite.

Partially because of the shape, the way it looks like a backwards E, but mostly for the things it evokes.

Trios of bears and little pigs and Shakespearean witches.

Third-time charms and trilogies and trinities and past, present, future.

It is the magic number, after all.

 

About flax-golden tales. Photo by Carey Farrell. Text by Erin Morgenstern.