Cognitive Daily proves it scientifically.
I love it when life imitates Brust.
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(Alternate Title: "Epic Fantasy Is What We Point to When We Look Down on Epic Fantasy.")
"The Fossil-Maker's Blues", by Steven Brust. Inspired by a comment in this post about paleoarcheology.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, writing about the phenomenon of fan fiction:
Personally, I'm convinced that the legends of the Holy Grail are fanfic about the Eucharist.
Mystical? I haven't heard any claim that the popularity of 7 bypasses our brain. Carl Jung believed tetrologies like 4 Greek elements and such reflected a bias in our collective unconscious toward 4, maybe because we're so used to making our way across a plane in our bilaterally symmetric bodies, but he wasn't big on other numbers. Not a craps player, I guess.
So what is it about 7? Is it because 29.5 days in a month divided into 4 parts is close to 7? It would have been too odd for our collective unconscious to divide that as 5 X 6. Is every other affection for 7 due to that, apart from craps players? When do we get to know about these parallel universes to see if they develop the same cultural patterns? Or maybe other intelligent life in this universe would do the trick. Sadly, not in my lifetime.
Personally, I never would pick 17. It's my ex-wife's bithday. Not a chance. Not only is there always one non-mystical reason for anything, there are lots of reasons, some more universal than others.