Why Number
6? Patrick McGoohan said it was because it’s the only number when inverted
becomes something else. Well I can think of other numbers that could be said
of. Number 9 for example, “Its Nine for Two, and Two for nothing, and Nine for
free, for free for all!” doesn’t sound quite right does it? Well that’s because
over the past forty-eight years we’ve been accustomed to the number 6, so
naturally another other number would seem strange. And of course if the
Prisoner’s number wasn’t six, then the phrase “Six of one and half a dozen of
the other” wouldn’t take on quite the same meaning as it does in ‘the
Prisoner.’ And Curtis would have to be Number 18 instead of twelve. Six rolls
of the tongue easily, of course the Prisoner’s number could have been any
single digit number. But there’s something a little different about six, it’s easy
to say, short and snappy, number 6, the ideal number in fact.
Be seeing you
This really is a most vacuous piece of writing, six as the "ideal" number, how preposterous. We know why #6. Why pretend you haven't read the reason?
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