Headline in today's New York Times:

'Year of Magical Thinking'
Headed for Broadway

which suggests...

Heaven, Hell,
and Hollywood
 
(continued)

"This could be Heaven
or this could be Hell."

-- The Eagles, Hotel California

"There are no facts,
there is no truth--
just data to be manipulated."

-- Don Henley, The Garden of Allah

Data:

The New York Lottery numbers
on Joan Didion's birthday,
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, were

Mid-day 729,
Evening 439.

Since that day's Log24 entry,
Magical Thinking, interpreted
the previous day's (Sunday's)
NY lottery numbers as a date
and a page number, it seems
appropriate to do a follow-up.

Date 7/29:

See Log24, 7/29/05,
Anatomy of a Death:


Page 439:

See Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations, 1919, p. 439:

A man’s ingress into the world
is naked and bare,
His progress through the world
is trouble and care;
And lastly,
his egress out of the world,
is nobody knows where.

-- John Edwin (1749-1790)

Related material:

The Log24 version of
"This Way to the Egress,"
Directions Out,
linked to in yesterday's
  Magical Thinking.