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Kismet X Numbers

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by Lily de Cuir

(equalling 22), was the act that produced their child’s conception by the tugging in Grace’s belly on the 18th of April, 2048. 18 + 4 +2048 = 27 = 9, divisible 3 times by the number 3.

  It was Kismet. By Numbers.

  The next morning as Grace lay in the fogginess of light sleep, she heard a faint voice telling her to look for the cyptic note she’d found in the box yesterday. She stumbled into the next room. It was where she left it on the floor. It was one of those triangle type things that kids learn to make, a sort of origami. She opened one of the folds, it was blank, she opened another, nothing there. The third one read ‘If you have read this, the 1st part of my plan is complete’. Cryptic indeed…she thought and stumbled back to bed.

  To be continued….

  References

  1. Dawson, R. The Present State of Australia. A Description of the Country and its Advantages and Prospects with Reference to Emigration and a Particular Account of the Manners, Customs and Condition of its Aboriginal Inhabitants, 2nd Edition, London, Smith Elder & Co, 1831

  2. Dawson, R. Statement of the Services of Mr. Dawson, as Chief Agent of the Australian Agricultural Company, with a Narrative of the Treatment he has experienced from he late Committee at Sydney and the Board of Directors of London, Published London, Smith Elder & Co for the Author, 1829

  3. Lamotte (nee Dawson), A.M. A Sketch of my Father’s Life – Robert Dawson of Bentley Lodge, Great Bentley, Essex, England, Handwritten 17 July 1904, Sydney

 


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