Twenty-thirteen: for most people, another year, much like 2011 or 2012,
nothing special. Okay, the United Nations says it will be the
International Year of Water Co-operation and also the International Year
of Quinoa. If that doesn’t seem special enough (quinoa is, after all,
only a vegetable), maybe this will: 2013 will be the first year since
1987 to have all digits different from one another. Interestingly (to
some people), 20 and 13 add up to 33, which numerologists—crackpots who
assign mystical significance to certain numbers—consider a “highly
charged master number”, full of meaning. But not all crackpots are
numerologists. Some are triskaidekaphobiacs, and for them the prospect
of 2013 is not so much interesting as terrifying.
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