"Division of three"...
I'm fascinated by the importance of the number 3 in
western culture, which may also have something to do with the origins of the
three-act paradigm.
For example, consider these "magic threes" in our culture:
- Father, Son and Holy Ghost (spiritual)
- Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis (logical)
- subject, verb, and object (language)
- This, that and the other
- Morning, noon and night
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Good, bad and indifferent
- Lead, folow or get out of the way
- Electron, proton, neutron
- Left, right and middle
- liberal, conservative, and middle-of-the-road
- The Three Musketeers
- Me, myself and I
- Three strikes and you're out
- The Triple Crown
- "Third time's the charm"
- The departing British governor of Hong Kong drove around the
palace three times when he left, which departing governors have
always done "in accordance with tradition."
- Beginning, middle, end
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