I was reading Stephen King's latest installment in the Dark Tower series, "The Song of Susannah." I had gotten to the part where Roland and Eddie confront the Author (! I think King has gone off the deep end since the accident) when a little slip of paper fell out.
I thought it was just a receipt or a cataloguing slip or something, but I picked it up and saw it was a bar-code with the serial number 79797 97979. I would have just ignored it except that the book plays heavily on numerology, and this seemed like a really strange serial number. Furthermore its printed on a sticker, and something was printed on the paper underneath the sticker. I held it up to the light and could make out what looks like a printed circuit diagram or the pattern on an integrated circuit. The label 8D is on it.
So does anybody know if this is a common thing in sales or shipping that doesn't mean a thing, or is Stephen King having a little joke on me? Has anybody else read the book and found a sticker like this one? I'm kind of afraid to peel the sticker off now.
I thought it was just a receipt or a cataloguing slip or something, but I picked it up and saw it was a bar-code with the serial number 79797 97979. I would have just ignored it except that the book plays heavily on numerology, and this seemed like a really strange serial number. Furthermore its printed on a sticker, and something was printed on the paper underneath the sticker. I held it up to the light and could make out what looks like a printed circuit diagram or the pattern on an integrated circuit. The label 8D is on it.
So does anybody know if this is a common thing in sales or shipping that doesn't mean a thing, or is Stephen King having a little joke on me? Has anybody else read the book and found a sticker like this one? I'm kind of afraid to peel the sticker off now.
