253 adds up to 10, the number of completion. Guess what time it is/was in Philadelphia.
Red's flipped dime stays mid-air for ~10 seconds beginning 25:30 into episode (6).
Also 2,3,5 are the first three prime numbers...if that is interesting to anyone 🙂 Followed by 7!
Yes, just as the electrical pole we see several times is 3 (which seems to have its own significance), and 2,4,6, 8,10.
The numbers are also in an even pattern. Don't know if that references an equal balance of power.
I don't think you have to be a believer in numerology to speculate about numeric clues in this show. It is obvious that Lynch & Frost have employed numeric references throughout, so you have to pay attention to that.
I think 10, and sums adding to 10, are what to look out for rather than 253 specifically.
One notable instance that I haven't seen anyone mention anywhere is Andy's failed meeting with the truck driver in episode 7. Now, first of all, this situation is mirroring the Billy / Chuck story (Billy stole Chuck's truck but gave it back, then Billy went missing / Richard drove someone else's truck (whose name we don't get to hear), runs the boy over, gives it back, then Richard disappears from Twin Peaks). But more relevant to this thread is that Andy checks his watch at the meeting and the time is 5:05pm, and the date window says 10. So we have two 10's on Andy's watch, when we cut back to the truck owner's house: ominous music, his door is open but the truck is still there.
The guy is terrified when he's talking to Andy, way more terrified than I think he'd be of Richard Horne.
Random number thought: There were plenty of references to 7. It's the floor Jeffries got out of in Philly in FWWM. It was his first room at the Dutchmans (right??). Sonny Jim's in 7th heaven. Lucky 7 insurance. Pretty sure I saw it lots more, often in connection to Jeffries and Dougie Coop.
So then I wonder if seeing the infinity symbol on its side, 8, means we've made a big step forward. No big clue here. Just really something to think about.
Maybe it's not that important. Maybe completion just means the exact timing of "intercourse between two worlds." nothing more than that.
Oh, another thing about moving from 7 forward to 8:
2+5=7. And 5+3=8. But mathy folk can find number patterns anywhere.
http://members.home.nl/frankcolijn/frankcolijn/10._God_speaks.htm
This triangle has 253 units:
T22 has 253 units. The Word that emanates from God.
To the number 253 are awarded different meanings. Various meanings seem to point in the same direction: womb (רחמה), un born (נברא), to be guiltless (נצטדק). You might say one can see the alphabet as the womb for words, unformed, they can't do any good or any harm. ----
I was just gonna unhelpfully muse on 2,5,3 being the first of the prime numbers (yes, 2 is prime).
Is it about the primes?... No. It's not about the primes.
Also, I'm pretty sure I remember the Silver Mustang security video running on a loop that I think started over again right at 2:53. It really is everywhere - that much is for certain.
And another thought about moving forward from 7 to 8: The Palmer house's address is 708! I've gotta see if I can spot more instances of 8, especially if they correlate with green. Freddie's glove is green; red and yellow are the common colors of being trapped in the Twin Peaks loops; green is something triumphant and final, very un-Twin-Peaksian. Case in point: Sonny Jim wears green; that green beetle in the casino disappears, as though saying, "i'm not going to haunt this family like the frog moth haunts the Palmers."
Now we can say with 99% certainty I'm reading into this, but I think that's what the creators want.
Maybe the real reason the world in part 18 feels so off is because Coop accidentally helped create a world that no longer relies on a base 10 system. 😛
That's what happens in a world where everyone has six fingers on their right hand.
Another thing I wanted to mention about the numbers, and the simple formula Lynch gives of just adding them up (ie "2 + 5 + 3 = 10") is that in the special features of the season 2 disc 1 blu-ray, at the end of the "Slice of Lynch" feature, Lynch says that 7 is his favourite number. Madchen Amick says that she likes 17 too, and Lynch replies "Well, that's a different number - that's 8." I think then that a case can be made that the various 15s we see are meant to suggest 6.
2:53 is 7 to 10, the number of completion; and to get some idea of completion and why episode 17 fails, good to remember that 710, completion, is also found on Leland Palmer's license plate, followed by the word 'yep' after he murdered Maddie and was satisfied with 'completion', the closed circle of BOB; completion is sort of a hiding from Judy/negativity, it allows Leland to sing for a while...
2:53 is 7 to 10, the number of completion; and to get some idea of completion and why episode 17 fails, good to remember that 710, completion, is also found on Leland Palmer's license plate, followed by the word 'yep' after he murdered Maddie and was satisfied with 'completion', the closed circle of BOB; completion is sort of a hiding from Judy/negativity, it allows Leland to sing for a while...
That, sir, is an extraordinarily good find!
Oh, about the Palmer house, 708. In the Part 18 forum I had posed some thoughts about moving forward from the number 7 (associated with Jeffries at times, and obviously associated with Dougie and the Joneses) to the number 8--the sideways infinity symbol.
The order of the numbers 253 matches a motion from 7 to 8:
2 + 5 = 7
5 + 3 = 8
Who knows if they intended any of that though. One can find so many patterns in numbers.
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