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The number 92

92 is a prime number, at least it is in "The Falls".

92 is...


  1. The number of stories or anecdotes which Peter Greenaway believed comprised John Cage's 'Indeterminacy'. As a homage to Cage, Greenaway spent many years making "The Falls", a film in 92 sections. Cage later told Greenaway that "Indeterminacy" had only 90 sections. It is not recorded how Greenaway responded to this information. However, it is known that Cage found Greenaway's mathematical error a source of considerable amusement.

  2. The number of languages in which the VUE Directory is presented.

  3. The number of VUE victims whose surnames begin with the letters FALL.

  4. The atomic number of Uranium. This is not irrelevant as some believe the VUE has prophetical implications for the multiple ways the world may end.

  5. The number of early flight pioneers celebrated in an Allow-Welsh choral work written by Musicus Fallantly.

  6. The number of surveys filmed some 18 months before the VUE by Erhaus Bewler Falluper, a professional statistician interested in assessing the public's general-knowledge of Natural History. The method by which Falluper selected interviewees in one survey was borrowed by the VUE Comission to investigate the consequences of the VUE.

  7. The number of unfamiliar bird names Casternarm Fallast could find in the indices of ornithological text-books sent to him by European publishers. Fallast is hoping to find a composer willing to use his bird-list as the libretto for an opera. From Astra Fallcas we learn that there is a recording of The Bird-List Song sung by a 12 year old VUE victim called Irisian. Recorded and published on the VUE's second anniversary, this recording has been used as a signature tune for various ornithological radio programmes. Although it is generally believed that Pollie Fallory recorded the definitive version of The Bird-List Song, a VFI scholar has conclusively proved this belief to be no truer than a myth. For further reading on this last point, see The Bird List Song Interview.

  8. The number found on the registration plate (NID 92) of a white van which appears to have run down Bwythan Fallbutus. The word 'CROW' was written on the van's side.

  9. The number of variations Bewick Fallcaster composed on the Tinnitus Theme prepared by a radio-engineer in Budapest.

  10. According to Thomax Fallfresh, 92 is the number of trains that stops each week to pick up passengers at the British Rail station at Diss, Suffolk. According to the book 'The Fear of Drowning by Numbers' Diss is a town twinned with Dis in Dante's 'Hell'. Diss is also the 64th star in 'Fear of Drowning'.

  11. 920 (sic) is the number of major sites or areas listed by Loosely Fallbute in which there is a high concentration of VUE victims.