Threesomes, the magic of 3

I enjoy the delight of a threesome when I’m writing. And if I manage to conjure a three-word alliteration, so much the better. I didn’t realize its significance initially. It wasn’t something I’d been taught. Rather I seemed to have assimilated the magical allure of threesomes through a lifetime of reading, discovering only later, I’d been subconsciously practicing the “rule of three”. What is the rule of three? And why is it so magical?

Since the dawn of public oratory and literature, someone...