Yesterday's "Succor" cited the New York Lottery of Tuesday— Midday 489, Evening 886.

One interpretation of these numbers—

  • 489 as the number of a page in the Collected Poems  of Wallace Stevens
    with verses that suggested to one author the following questions:
    "How can one express one's sense of the ground of things?
    What is the structure of Being itself…?" — Thomas Jensen Hines
  • 886 as a number applied recently to a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
    with the notable phrase "the unchanging register of change"

Some background from Tuesday—