losing my mind boys

[mx krabs the bepronouned]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29429982-the-twenty-three

saw a copy of this on a bookswap shelf in wales. i can't find a single mention of our bullshit anywhere on the internet with relation to this (and the author is pretty popular + has an online presence-- no search results for anything from thousands of reviews), but this trilogy apparently features the number 23 turning up ~mysteriously~ in places throughout, no way its entirely independant of at least burroughs. that or the enigma got me again. i might go back tomorrow and swap it for something so i can read through properly

[mx krabs the bepronouned]

update, went back there and read the end, + did some Investigative Journalism (@'d the author on twitter). this is the conclusion of a trilogy in which the number 23 keeps turning up throughout in significant situations, which is eventually caught on to and referred to as 'the 23 conundrum'. it is also a very grounded detective thriller, no shady secret societies, drugs, or even as far as i can tell questioning of reality. no-one fucks an apple, not even once. the murderer is like, a guy, there's no real conspiracy as far as i can tell. the '23' thing is because someone got killed and there were 23 witnesses, and the big bad of the final novel sneaks the number 23 into murders he commits in revenge to symbolise that. i've looked for a while, and i still can't find anyone mentioning this online.



(please ignore the fact i type like im begging for another portion of gruel here, i was trying to be nice)

so, either:

- he's lying (which would be pretty good)
- he means that he was referencing the enigma but doesn't know about the other shit
- he was subliminally influenced after hearing about it or something
- he did this entirely independantly.

if its either of the last two, and if he ends up googling it, he's about to go down a very interesting rabbit hole.