• A number sequence

    From Eric Sosman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 14 14:55:55 2023
    A recently reawakened thread almost twenty-seven years old
    prompts me to ask: What is the next number in

    3 5 8(?) 10 11 13 14 16 17 25 26 28 30
    31 32 34 35 36 37 38 41 42 43 45 46 ___?

    (Inquiring pundits want to know.)

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  • From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Eric Sosman on Tue Feb 14 15:08:34 2023
    On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 11:55:58 AM UTC-8, Eric Sosman wrote:
    A recently reawakened thread almost twenty-seven years old
    prompts me to ask: What is the next number in

    3 5 8(?) 10 11 13 14 16 17 25 26 28 30
    31 32 34 35 36 37 38 41 42 43 45 46 ___?

    (Inquiring pundits want to know.)

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    Look on my code, ye Hackers, and guffaw!



    i thnk ive seen taht (or similar) Seq. a few months ago

    i can't tell if you know the answer or you're really asking for one.




    _____________________________________________________
    the 1st page of [A Study in Scarlet]

    iirc... when i first read
    [A Study in Scarlet], (15 years ago???)
    the expression that appears in the beginning
    [kith and kin] was new to me.




    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/244/244-h/244-h.htm

    CHAPTER I.

    MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES.

    In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of
    Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go
    through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having
    completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth
    Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was
    stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second
    Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my
    corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the
    enemy’s country. I followed, however, with many other officers who
    were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching
    Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered
    upon my new duties.

    The campaign brought honours and promotion to many,
    but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed
    from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at
    the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a
    Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian
    artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis
    had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my
    orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing
    me safely to the British lines.

    Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged
    hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of
    wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied,
    and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards,
    and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by
    enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions. For months my
    life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board
    determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to
    England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship “Orontes,”
    and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health
    irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government
    to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.

    I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was
    therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings
    and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.



    ----------- this last bit
    (((as free as air—or as free as ....... )))
    is really pretty.


    FW often mentions [Ghazi Power]



    Will Miller's book (the novel, [Shaheed!])
    also mentions [Peshawar] on the 1st page !!!


    Watson floating into the sky recalls

    (Finnegans Wake, p.165).

    (I should like to ask that Shedlock Homes person who is out for
    removing the roofs of our criminal classics by what deductio ad
    domunum he hopes de tacto to detect anything unless he happens of
    himself, movibile tectu, to have a slade off)

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