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Number Twenty-Three

First of all, if you're hoping for a deep, thoughtful essay on the meaning of life, you're going to be rather disappointed. This is just a rant.

So, if you've been following my Progress Report, you'll know that I did NaNoWriMo in November. I got to 50k words, and so technically won the challenge, but I have yet to complete my novel. I plan to work on it more seriously once Lynth is being sent to publishers (not long now!).
Anyway, the point of this is that the novel I part-wrote for NaNo is called #23. I usually read this as Number Twenty-Three, when I need to pronounce it
If you're interested, the name came from the fact that the main character has a designated number. The number itself wasn't too significant, but I picked twenty-three because my birthdate is the twenty-third of January.
But now it turns out that there's a movie called The Number 23.
Maybe I don't have anything to worry about. Since my title is written in numbers, and can just be vocalised as Twenty Three, maybe I won't get sued if I ever get this thing published. But I'm still considering alternative titles.
I found out a little more about the film recently. Turns out that The Number 23 is the title of a novel that exists within the film and basically starts the whole plot.
A novel. At first this was a coincidence, but now I'm getting scared.

(To clarify, I have nothing against the film, and I don't mind changing my title. But the coincidences are getting creepy.)

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