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PCM > The Mystery of 47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | And when I was told that 47 degrees is the approximate azimuth angle of an object on the horizon which passes through the zenith at the latitude of Claremont, there was just a bit of wonder mixed into my blank stare. |
 | | Mets proposes that the mystery of 47 lies not in any set of occurrences that prove that 47 is a magic number but in everyone's agreement that they do. |
 | | Maybe, in the final analysis, it's not the occurrence of 47 in nature that is important but the number's ability to evoke a feeling of nostalgia for Pomona--to awaken, in a glance, all those sleeping memories of life here. |
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