Talk:57 (number)

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From Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King, page 33 of the Project Gutenberg version:

“‘I’m sorry, Dan,’ says I, ‘but there’s no accounting for natives. This business is our Fifty-Seven. Maybe we’ll make something out of it yet, when we’ve got to Bashkai.’

In context it seems to mean roughly "our crisis and our opportunity." Any ideas about the derivation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwattles (talk • contribs) 10:53, 30 September 2007 (UTC)