"'Eight is a bad number. We shouldn't be doing this.'
"'What do you mean, a "bad" number?' Madeleine could feel her heart start to pound.
"'It comes right after seven,' said Jeanne, as though that explained it. 'Eight forms the infinity sign.' She gestured in the air, her finger making an invisible sign. 'The energy goes round and round. No outlet. It gets angry and frustrated, and very powerful.' She sighed. 'This doesn't feel good at all.'"
–– Louise Penny (b. 1958), Canadian writer
Source: Louise Penny. The Cruellest Month. London, UK: Headline Publishing Group, 2007; p. 20. Text is re: a seance.
via Sketchbook 18, 2012, p. 145
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