The System

Pennsylvania Lottery
Sunday, June 8, 2008:

Mid-day 638
Evening 913

Midrash:

638 —

“It’s the system that matters.
How the data arrange
themselves inside it.”

— Gravity’s Rainbow,
page 638

913 —

“For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross.”

— Thomas Pynchon, quoted
here on 9/13, 2007