Eighteen books, and — noticed over centuries by its readers — eighteen small curiosities about the text itself: word-games, counts, and coincidences that were never the teaching, but have always travelled with it.
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None of these is the point of the song. But a text this loved gathers this kind of attention too — readers turning it over in their hands, finding it interesting from every angle, long after they have finished arguing about what it means.