Risto

“ Three is a favorite number for story tellers ... because readers, like most of the larger animals, are constructed according to the rules of binary symmetry: left and right, two eyes, ears, arms, legs, lungs, kidneys. Our sets of fingers and toes, and the two sides of our face, mirror each other. Two-ness is natural to us; three-ness suggests an external world whose complexity often exceeds the limitations of our bodies and our understanding. We experience a third part of something ... as an interesting, exciting, or alarming novelty that compels our attention. ”