Even Numbered Groups...

I thought it was interesting how many of the characters were grouped in even numbers, most prevalently in groups consisting of four members.

There are:
- the Apocalyptic Horsemen: Famine, War, Pollution, and Death
- the Them: Adam, Wensleydale, Pepper, and Brian
- the other 4 Apocalyptic Horsemen: Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Really Cool People, and Treading in Dogsh*t (formerly All Foreigners Especially The French, formerly Things Not Working Properly Even When You've Given Them a Good Thumping, never actually No Alcohol Lager, and briefly Embarrassing Personal Problems)
- the 4 Demons: Hastur, Ligur, Crowley, and Beelzebub

In even numbers of groups consisting of two:
- the two witch-hunters: Mr. Shadwell and Newton Pulsifer
- the two witches: Anathema and Agnes Nutter

I'm sure there's many more correlations, but I just thought that 6 would be alot more prevalent in the book, maybe because it has a certain correlation with 666 being the devil's symbol. I just found it odd that 4 was more prevalent instead. But hey, maybe i'm fitting it into my own thoughts, but 4 and 2 makes 6 if added together...

Just food for thought,

- Marjorie D.