It’s said that, if you hear “in terms of” 23 times in 23 hours on the 23rd of the month, the ghost of William Burroughs will appear and offer you a heroin enema.
I don’t know whether this is true.
Elsewhere other-engageable:
• William S. Burroughs
• Alan Moore, C.B.E.
• Michael Moorcock
• Will Self
• Stewart Home
• Cormac McCarthy
• Dr Joan Jay Jefferson
• Serpent’s Tail
• Titans of Trangression…
I’ve heard something different, that it will summon the InTerminator, half human, half English grad student. You will have to read a survey guide on feminist glaciology if you want to live.
“Glaciers are key icons…” Guardianese! But “keyly core / corely key icons” would have been even better.
The InTerminator appears if you hear “in terms of” 529 (23*23) times in 23 hours. It’s the larval state of the Ex-Term-Inator, which appears after 12167 (23^3) “in terms of” (heard or chanted):