Two
Everything is intimately, inextricably connected to everything else so that a butterfly* flutters its wings in Fiji and a dog in Brooklyn† gets diarrhea.
Or, nothing is remotely related to anything else at all except that we wish it were so.
List the Second:
i. The man stands at the flushless urinal – the one in the corner – at the rest stop at mile marker 129 on I-81 north (Virginia) just south of the Dixie Caverns exit. He is recently widowed; he has no children. He is just driving, a 1997 Honda Accord with 262,000 miles on it.
He grew up in Salem - he went to Andrew Lewis High School – but he left the area long, long ago; he doesn’t know anyone. He is thinking of the old joke – not from high school but elementary school days. It’s visual. A boy with a claw for a hand holds it in front of him, praying, “God make both my hands the same.” He opens his eyes: still a claw. He raises the other, “good” hand: he now has two claws.
ii. The rule of three “suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things.” There is created “a progression in which the tension is created, built up, and finally released,” a beginning, a middle, and an end.*
iii.
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* Badamia atrox subflava
† New York
** Source: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)
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