Just a small snippet of Opener of the Ways, my new favorite short story by Richard Kadrey.
“Why is it always seven?” Margaret asked. “Seven deadly sins. Seven virtues. Seven pillars of wisdom. Seven lines on a grave to erase the sins of the dead.”
“Seven segments of a rainbow,” said Anubis, in a clear very un-doglike voice. “Seven souls.”
“Is that why? Because we have seven souls?”
“Perhaps. Four parts of mortals are connected to Earth, three to Heaven. If you add up the numbers one through seven, you get twenty-eight, the same number as the cycle of the moon. Of course, it could be simpler. It could be that everyone in the universe hates six, so the gods just rounded up one.”
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