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Three is a magic number, yes it is, it’s a magic number. Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity, you get three as a magic number. The past and the present and the future, Faith and Hope and Charity, the heart and the brain and the body, give you three as a magic number.
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The contents of these ‘Kunstkammers’ vary according to their owners’ tastes, but basically they have the same aim: to be comprehensive and encyclopaedic, to be a microcosm of the whole world gathered under one roof. Furthermore they were created for the glory of prince and country, while at the same time having an educational purpose. This latter aim was specifically mentioned by Peter the Great on the opening of his Kunstkammer in S. Petersburg in 1714. ‘I want people to look and learn,’ he declared.
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For like the campbells acoming with a fork lance of lightning, Jarl von Hoother Boanerges himself, the old terror of the dames, came hip hop handihap out through the pikeopened arkway of his three shuttoned castles, in his broadginger hat and his civic chollar and his allabuff hemmed and his bullbraggin soxandgloves and his ladbroke breeks and his cattegut bandolair and his furframed panuncular cumbottes like a rudd yellan gruebleen orangeman in his violet indigonation, to the whole longth of the strongth of his bowman’s bill.
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