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The novelist Philip Pullman described the book as "a marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." [4] Lucy Knight, celebrating the book's 50th anniversary in The Guardian, quotes the novelist Ali Smith's description of The Summer Book, "a masterpiece of microcosm, a perfection of the small, quiet read". [5]
The number of the beast, a reference in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament; Places ... 666, a song on the 1982 album Metal on Metal, by Anvil;
Year 666 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 666 for this year has been used since the early medieval period , when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Some speculate the name to be associated with a future date, or to represent the evils of the novel through the number associated with the Devil, 666. The number does not appear in the book, though it does in some of Bolaño's other books—in Amulet, a Mexico City road looks like "a cemetery in the year 2666", [7] and The Savage Detectives ...
666 (six hundred [and] sixty-six) is the natural number following 665 and preceding 667. In Christianity, 666 is referred to in most manuscripts of chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation of the New Testament as the "number of the beast." [1] [2] [3]
Papyrus 115 (which is the oldest preserved manuscript of the Revelation as of 2017), as well as other ancient sources like Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, give the number of the beast as χιϛ or χιϲ, transliterable in Arabic numerals as 616 (χιϛ), not 666; [2] [3] critical editions of the Greek text, such as the Novum Testamentum Graece ...
6:66 Satan's Child has a mostly industrial metal sound. [2] As with its predecessor Blackacidevil, several songs include effects-treated vocals. [8] It was the first Danzig album to be produced using digital recording methods, [9] as Glenn Danzig explained: "This record is the first time I've ever recorded my vocals digitally.
However, draughts with only 5 × 10 20 positions [21] and even fewer, 3.9 × 10 13, in the database, [22] is a much easier problem to solve –of the same order as Rubik's cube. The magnitude of the set of positions of a puzzle does not entirely determine whether a God's algorithm is possible.