triskaidekaphobia

fear of the number 13. its the word of the day today on meriam websta
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i would but i'm afraid something bad will happen if i do

only if you're the 13th person to post on this thread

but i'm already the 1st and 3rd :o

You're numer one, which is much to be desired. And three, as we all know, is the magic number.

http://i.imgur.com/xiRSM.jpg

hahahaha

Schoenberg experienced triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), which possibly began in 1908 with the composition of the thirteenth song of the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op. 15 (Stuckenschmidt 1977, 96). Moses und Aron was originally spelled Moses und Aaron, but when he realised this contained 13 letters, he changed it. His superstitious nature may have triggered his death. According to friend Katia Mann, he feared he would die during a year that was a multiple of 13 (quoted in Lebrecht 1985, 294). He so dreaded his sixty-fifth birthday in 1939 that a friend asked the composer and astrologer Dane Rudhyar to prepare Schoenberg's horoscope. Rudhyar did this and told Schoenberg that the year was dangerous, but not fatal. But in 1950, on his seventy-sixth birthday, an astrologer wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13 (Nuria Schoenberg-Nono, quoted in Lebrecht 1985, 295). This stunned and depressed the composer, for up to that point he had only been wary of multiples of 13 and never considered adding the digits of his age. On Friday, 13 July 1951, Schoenberg stayed in bed—sick, anxious and depressed. In a letter to Schoenberg's sister Ottilie, dated 4 August 1951, his wife, Gertrud, reported "About a quarter to twelve I looked at the clock and said to myself: another quarter of an hour and then the worst is over. Then the doctor called me. Arnold's throat rattled twice, his heart gave a powerful beat and that was the end" (Stuckenschmidt 1977, 521). Gertrud Schoenberg reported the next day in a telegram to her sister-in-law Ottilie that Arnold died at 11:45pm (Stuckenschmidt 1977, 520).

donna rouge ftw!
holy shit at schoenberg

yeah he is the all-time best example of this

baffling

the post after this one will be the 13th post on this thread, FYI

http://biopsy.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/thumbs-up.jpg

HHHeelllOOOOOOOOOOO!

is that tigger?

http://991.com/newGallery/Das-Damen-Triskaidekaphobe-277319.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Das-Damen-Triskaidekaphobe-277319.jpg
doh

That album just left me afraid of Das Damen.