(urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?

[David Stockhoff]

Right. I think the "meaning" of 17 in this case is rather 
self-contained: one communist Ruling Group is related to another, with a 
touch of Yellow Peril thrown in.

On 5/22/2011 1:12 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> From: Sergei Soloviev<Sergei.Soloviev at irit.fr>
>> I would like to slow down the growth of one more myth - what is the source of
>> the idea
>> that the number of the memebers of Politburo was 17? First of all,  the "norm"
>> changed
>> several times. The first one, in 1917, had, as far as I  remember, 7 members.
>> Then the number varied - from 8 (in 1920-es) to 25 (in  1970-es). That is, in
>> the
>> USSR. In China, it varied as well, between 19 and  25.
> Along these lines, Michael Andre-Driussi writes in LU, "The number seventeen
> alludes to the Soviet politburo, which typically had seventeen members (eleven
> to twelve full members and six to nine alternate members)."  So even based on
> that, the connection of 17 to the politburo is a good deal weaker than I thought
> from Robert Borski's article.
>
>> To me the expression
>> "group of 17" has somewhat Chinese flavour - like  "gang of four"
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four (nowadays there is  also a rock
> group
>> with this name).
> (Formed in 1977, says Wikipedia, and now performing again.)
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
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