Eric Mayer

Barry Bonds keeps hitting home runs. The San Francisco Giant outfielder's number is now 666. I'm surprised I haven't come across a clever headline about Bonds and the Beast.

I'm not sure why it is the Beast has a number. Is having a number instead of a name beastly? Or is everyone numbered? Did John the Baptist have a number, for example, but no one ever bothered to write it down?

Does it help, knowing the Beast's number? Do we get to check for ID or something?

At least a lot of people have his number. When we got the propane tank filled in February the driver pulled the automatically generated bill out of the printer in the truck and shook his head. "Now this isn't a good number," he told me. "No matter how you look at it."

So I looked at it. The charge, with tax, came to precisely $666 and no cents.

I wasn't exactly rapturous about it.

Eric Mayer Byzantine Blog Probably the only vaguely interesting thing about me is that with my wife, Mary Reed, I co-author the John the Eunuch mystery series set in sixth century Constantinople. But that doesn't stop me from dwelling here on the boring minutiae of the rest of my life, present and past, along with the occasional word about writing.
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Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) Eric's Website Poisoned Pen Press There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. --Michel de Montaigne		2004-04-20 7:29 PM Bonds is a Beast Barry Bonds keeps hitting home runs. The San Francisco Giant outfielder's number is now 666. I'm surprised I haven't come across a clever headline about Bonds and the Beast. I'm not sure why it is the Beast has a number. Is having a number instead of a name beastly? Or is everyone numbered? Did John the Baptist have a number, for example, but no one ever bothered to write it down? Does it help, knowing the Beast's number? Do we get to check for ID or something? At least a lot of people have his number. When we got the propane tank filled in February the driver pulled the automatically generated bill out of the printer in the truck and shook his head. "Now this isn't a good number," he told me. "No matter how you look at it." So I looked at it. The charge, with tax, came to precisely $666 and no cents. I wasn't exactly rapturous about it. Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top