On a side note, there are six characters in this novel, is this any way related to the name SIXsmith? Coincidence of SIX characters, SIXsmith, SIX narratives, SIX hundred years? Doesn’t 666 represent the devil or evil or something? maybe that is ironic to the fact the class thought this novel was the antichrist anyways. In looking up the idea of six and circle together I found out a little bit about geometry.
"a circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in
which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle
upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the
sides. It also passes through the three middle points of
the sides of the triangle and through the three middle
points of those parts of the perpendiculars that are
between their common point of meeting and the angles of
the triangle. The circle is hence called the six points circle."
This has to be some sort of ironic senario considering the fact that if you fold a six piece circle in half it will always match with it’s complement. hm odd. I could be reading way too much into this but I am sort of convinced that Mitchell’s intent may have been to create a puzzle out of a novel.
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