On the Number 98

98 in Mathematics
1) The 49th even number = 98
2) The 11th Wedderburn-Etherington number = 98
0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 23, 46, 98, 207, 451, 983
3) The 72nd composite numbers = 98
4) 2 x 7 x 7 = 98
5) 2 x 49 = 98
6) 7 x 14 = 98
7) Sum of first three 4th powers = 14 + 24 + 34 = 1 + 16 + 81 = 98
8) Sum of 11th to 17th numbers = 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 = 98
9) Sum of the 8th & 18th lucky numbers = 25 + 73 = 98
10) Sum of the 9th & 16th lucky numbers = 31 + 67 = 98
11) Sum of the 2nd & 17th abundant number = 18 + 80 = 98
12) Sum of the 3rd & 16th abundant number = 20 + 78 = 98
13) Sum of the 8th & 11th abundant number = 42 + 56 = 98
14) Sum of the 1st & 69th composite numbers = 4 + 94 = 98
14) Sum of the 2nd & 67th composite numbers = 6 + 92 = 98
15) Sum of the 3rd & 65th composite numbers = 8 + 90 = 98
16) Sum of the 5th & 64th composite numbers = 10 + 88 = 98
17) Sum of the 6th & 62nd composite numbers = 12 + 86 = 98
18) Sum of the 1st, 4th, 24th prime numbers = 2 + 7 + 89 = 98
19) Sum of the 4th cube number & 9th Fibonacci number = 64 + 34 = 98
20) Sum of the 12th lucky numbers & 10th Fibonacci number = 43 + 55 = 98
21) Sum of the 7th prime number & 9th square number = 17 + 81 = 98
22) Sum of the 24th prime number & 3rd square number = 89 + 9 = 98
23) Sum of the 16th prime number & 9th triangular number = 53 + 45 = 98
24) Sum of the 23rd prime number & 5th triangular number = 83 + 15 = 98
25) Square root of 98 = 9.899494937
26) Cube root of 98 = 4.610436292
27) ln 98 = 4.584967 (natural log to the base e)
28) log 98 = 1.991226 (logarithm to the base 10)
29) Sin 98o = 0.990268068
Cos 98o = -0.139173101
Tan 98o = -7.115369722
30) 1/98 expressed as a decimal = 0.01020408163265
(Sequence begins with powers of 2, breaks down with 65)
31) The 183rd & 184th digits of e = 98

e = 2.7182818284 5904523536 0287471352 6624977572 4709369995
         9574966967 6277240766 3035354759 4571382178 5251664274
         2746639193 2003059921 8174135966 2904357290 0334295260
         5956307381 3232862794 3490763233 8298807531 9525101901
         1573834187 9307021540 8914993488 4167509244 7614606680

(Note: The 99th-108th digits of e = 7427466391 is the first 10-digit prime in
consecutive digits of e. This is the answer to the Google Billboard question
that may lead to a job opportunity at Google.com, San Jose Mercury News, 7-10-2004)
32) The 80th & 81st digits of pi, π = 98
The 100th & 101st digits of pi, π = 98
The 501st & 502nd digits of pi, π = 98
33) The 7th & 8th digits of phi, φ = 98
The 12th & 13th digits of phi, φ = 98
Phi or φ = 1.618033988749894... is an irrational number,
also called the Golden Ratio (or Golden number).
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) first called it the sectio aurea,
(Latin for the golden section) and related it to human anatomy.
Ratios may be found in the Pyramids of Giza & the Greek Parthenon.
34) Binary number for 98 = 1100010
(Decimal & Binary Equivalence
35) ASCII value for 098 = b
(ASCII Code Chart)
36) Hexadecimal number for 98 = 62
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
37) Octal number for 98 = 142
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
38) The Greek-based numeric prefix octanonaconta- means 98.
39) The Latin word nonaginta 0cto means 98.
40) The Roman numeral for 98 is XCVIII.
41) Jiu Shí Ba (9, 10, 8) is the Chinese ideograph for 98.
42) (60, 30, 8) is the Babylonian number for 98
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers,
Penguin Books, New York (1987), pp. 326-327
43) The Hebrew letters Tzadi (90) & Chet (8)
add to 98 meaning "pond or pool"
(Hebrew Alphabet, Hebrew Gematria)
44) 98 in different languages:
Dutch: negentig-acht, French: quatre-vingt-dix-huit, German: neunzig-acht, Hungarian: kilencven-nyolc,
Italian: novantina-otto, Spanish: noventa-ocho, Swedish: nittio-âtta, Turkish: doksan-sekiz

98 in Science & Technology
45) Atomic Number of Californium (Cf) =98 (98 protons & 98 electrons)
Californium is a radioactive rare earth metal, named after the state of California
nd the University of California. Californium-252 is a strong neutron emitter and
one microgram emits 170 million neutrons per minute, making it a biological
hazard. Californium was discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg, Stanley G. Thompson,
Albert Ghiorso, Kenneth Street in 1950 at USA. Atomic mass = 251.
46) Chemical compounds whose molecular weight is 98:
Sodium cyanide, C2N2Na2 = 98.0143
Acetic acid, potassium salt, C2H3KO2 = 98.1423
Difluoroacetyl fluoride, C2HF3O = 98.0239
Glycolic acid, sodium salt, C2H3NaO3 = 98.0332
Maleic anhydride, C4H2O3 = 98.0569
47) Organic compounds whose melting or boiling point is 98oC:
m-Nitrophenol, C6H5NO3 MP = 98oC
1-Butanethiol, C4H10S, BP = 98oC
4-Ethylcyclopentene, CH3CH2CH2OH, BP = 98oC
n-Heptane, H3C(CH2)5CH3, BP = 98.38oC
48) The 98th amino acid in the 141-residue alpha-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Proline (P)
The 98th amino acid in the 146-residue beta-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Histidine (H)
Single-Letter Amino Acid Code
Alpha-chain sequence of human hemoglobin:
VLSPADKTNVKAAWGKVGAHAGEYGAEALERMFLSFPTTKTYFPHFDLSH
GSAQVKGHGKKVADALTNAVAHVDDMPNALSALSDLHAHKLRVDPVNFKL
LSHCLLVTLAAHLPAEFTPAVHASLDKFLASVSTVLTSKYR
Beta-chain sequence of human hemoglobin:
VHLTPEEKSAVTALWGKVNVDEVGGEALGRLLVVYPWTQRFFESFGDLST
PDAVMGNPKVKAHGKKVLGAFSDGLAHLDNLKGTFATLSELHCDKLHVDP
ENFRLLGNVLVCVLAHHFGKEFTPPVQAAYQKVVAGVANALAHKYH
49) The 98th amino acid in the 153-residue sequence of sperm whale myoglobin
is Lysine (K) [A.B. Edmundson, Nature 205, 883-887 (1965)]
X-ray structure of myoglobin shows that Lysine-98
is three amino acids away from end of F-helix 86-95
[H.C. Watson, Progr. Stereochem. 4, 299 (1969)]
50) The 98th amino acid in the 124-residue enzyme
Bovine Ribonuclease is Lysine (K)
It is next to Tyrosine-97 and Threonine-99
[C. H. W. Hirs, S. Moore, and W. H. Stein, J. Biol. Chem. 235, 633 (1960)]
51)
Messier M98 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located 44.4 million
light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, about 6o
to the east of the bright star Denebola. It was discovered by
French astronomer Pierre Méchain on 15 March 1781, along
with nearby M99 and M100, and was cataloged by French
astronomer Charles Messier on 4-13-1781 in his Catalogue.
Messier 98 has a blue shift & is approaching us at 140 km/sec.
52) NGC 98 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Phoenix constellation.
The galaxy NGC 98 was discovered on September 6, 1834
by the British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel.
It is 290 million light years away.
53) Asteroid 98 Ianthe a large main-belt asteroid, named for three figures in Greek mythology.
It is very dark and is composed of carbonates. It was one of the numerous (for his time—
the 19th century) discoveries by C. H. F. Peters, who found it on April 18, 1868, from
Clinton, New York. The asteroid has mass of 8.93x1017 kg, dimension 104.45 km,
and a period of 4.41 years.
54) Boeing C-98 Clipper a flying boat with capability that could fly across
the ocean. Boeing's bid of Model 314 Clipper was successful. Pan Am
signed a contract for six Clippers. It was given military designation C-98.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled to the Casablanca
Conference in a Pan-Am crewed C-98. Prime minister Winston Churchill
also flew on them several times adding to Clippers' fame during the war.
Span 152 ft, Length 108 ft, Height 20 ft 4 in., Max speed 210 mph, Crew 10.
The last Clipper was retired in 1946. Photo Source: anigrand.com
55) N98 Submarine Turbulent was from the British Navy. From the outbreak
of WW II until HMS Turbulent's last patrol Commander Linton was constantly
in command of submarines, and during that time inflicted great damage on
the enemy. He sank one cruiser, one destroyer, one U-boat, twenty-eight
supply ships, some 10000 tons in all, and destroyed three trains by gunfire.
Length 275 ft, Bean 26 ft 6 in, Depth 14 ft 3 in; Displacement 1327 tons;
Diving Depth 300 feet; Speed 15.25 knots. N68 was launched on 12-5-1941.
On March 14, 1943, off the coast of Sardinia, N(* Turbulent was sunk whilst
transiting a minefield. Her Captain Tubby Linton forgot to check for any
information on minefield disposition. Photo Source: rnsubs.co.uk
56) Type 98 Battle Tank did not entered operational service with the Chinese Army.
The Type 98 MBT is armed with a fully-stabilized 125 mm smoothbore gun,
fitted with an autoloader. Both the gun and autoloader were copied from
the Soviet T-72 MBT. It has a maximum rate of fire of 8 rounds per minute.
The Type 98 is capable of launching anti-tank guided missiles. The Type 98
main battle tank has an all-welded hull and turret. Vehicle is fitted with NBC
protection and automatic fire suppression system. as well as laser protection.
Weight: 48 tons; Length: 10.9 meters; Width: 3.37 meters; Height: 2.2 meters;
Crew: 3; Speed 65 km/hr. Photo Source: military-today.com
57) Steam Locomotive Engine 98 was built by the American Locomotive Company
of Schenectady, NY, in January 1909 (construction #45921). She worked in passenger
service on the Mississippi Central before being retired in December 1944. Paulsen
Spence purchased No. 98 in 1947 for Comite Southern, & later the Louisiana Eastern.
Thomas C. Marshall & T. Clarence Marshall purchased the locomotive in January 1960
with intent of operating her (and several other engines) on a proposed weekend steam
tourist railroad in Wilmington, DE. No. 98 was moved off Strasburg property and
shipped to Wilmington & Western where she was returned to service in October 1972.
No. 98 operated regularly throughout the 80s, 90s & 2000s. Photo Source: wwrr.com
58) STS-98 Space Shuttle Atlantis was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International
Space Station (ISS) flown by Robert L. Curbeam with team of five. It was the first
human spaceflight launch of the 21st century. STS-98 delivered to the station the
Destiny Laboratory Module. All mission objectives were completed and the shuttle
reentered and landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February 2001, after
twelve days in space, six of which were spent docked to the ISS. The Shuttle spent
six days docked to the station while the laboratory was attached & three spacewalks
were conducted to complete its assembly. The mission also saw the 100th spacewalk
in U.S. spaceflight history. STS-98 occurred while the first station crew was aboard
the new space station. Photo Source: archive.org
59) Fire Engine 98 from Chicago Fire Department, at 202 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL.
The limestone and brick building— with turrets & a parapet--was designed by architect
C.F. Hermann in a style echoing medieval castles. Originally it was the home of Hose
Company 2; then Engine Company 98 was organized to take its place in October 1904.
The former stable is now the kitchen. The second-floor hayloft has been transformed
into a weight room just off the bunkroom. There is also a hose tower designed to
accommodate 50-footlong hoses. "We hang them up in here to dry," Staatz said.
Photo Source: chicagoareafire.com
60) 98 Shelby Cobra Automobile: Ken Miles powers his 98 Cobra Roadster into turn
6 ahead of teammate Dave MacDonald Saturday 2/2/63. MacDonald would sweep
the weekend races to give Ford's iconic sports car its historic first-ever win. Ken Miles
finished 2nd both days. Shelby Cobra was produced by Ford & Shelby American in
1965-1966. 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 is on sale for $125,900 at RK Motors. Marsh Models
MM286B98 Shelby Cobra 427 #98 'Ken Miles' USRRC Riverside 1965 selling for $269.95.
Photo Source: motorsportsminiatures.co

98 in Mythology & History
61) The 98th day of the year (non-leap year) = April 8
[Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) died on April 8, 1973
at age 91 at his home near Mougins, France;
Norwegian figure skater, Sonja Henie (1912-1969) was born April 8, 1912;
a 10x World Champion (1927-1936) & Olympic Gold (1928, 1932, 1936).
62) The 98th day of the year (leap year) = April 7
[British poet, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born April 7, 1770;
Indian musician, Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) was born on April 7, 1920,
he was a master sitar player and influenced Beatles' George Harrison.]
63) 98 B.C.— Roman Senate passed a resolution forbidding human sacrifice.
64) 98 A.D.— Historian Tacitus finished Germania.
Apollonius, Greek/Roman philosopher & mathematician died.
• The Roman emperor Nerva dies suddenly January 25 at age 63.
Succeeded by adopted son who reigned as emperor Trajan until 117 A.D.
• The silver content of the Roman denarius will rise slightly to 93%
under emperor Trajan, up from 92% level that prevailed under Domitian.
— James Trager (Ed.), The People's Chronology (1979), p. 39
65) 98th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army
in the closing months of World War I and during World War II.
The unit is now one of U.S. Army Reserve's training divisions,
known as the 98th Training Division (Initial Entry Training).
Formerly headquartered in Rochester, New York, the 98th
Training Division (IET) was moved to Fort Benning, Georgia
in 2012. Its nickname is "Iroquois" with Brigadier General
Miles Davis as commander. Photo: Insignia (commons.wikimedia.org)
66) 98th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States
federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of
Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1985, during
the third & fourth years of Ronald Reagan's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives was based on the 1980 U.S. Census. The Republicans controlled
the Senate, while Democrats controlled the House of Representatives. The House Speaker
was Democrat Tip O'Neill; The Senate President was Republican George H.W. Bush
Major events include United States troops invaded Grenada (10-25-1983) and the
re-election of President Ronald Reagan (11-5-1984).
67) At Age 98:
W.N. Stocker (1853-1949) dies at age 98; He was a Senior Fellow at Oxford's Brasenose College
for 72 years. He has been the last surviving member of the old system, in which felows were
appointed for life at Oxford colleges. No photo of W.N. Stocker on the web, but there's a story
of him in his 90s, outraged at a woman hanging washed underwear to dry from her window.
— Jeremy's Baker's Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982), p. 516

Isocrates (436BC-338 BC) was born in Athens and studied with Socrates,
Prodicus, and Gorgias. He opened a school of rhetoric (393 BC), where
oration contained few figures of speech, but replete with examples from
philosophy and history. His On the Peace (355 BC) suggested that Athens
reject imperialism and seek peace. In Areopageticus (355 BC), he exhorted
Athens to return to the democracy of Solon and Cleisthenes. He promoted
the Greek ideals of freedom, self-control, and virtue; in this he influenced
several Roman rhetoricians, such as Cicero and Quintilian, and influenced
the core concepts of liberal arts education. Isocrates died at age 98 after
reminding King Philip of Macedon to conquer Persia.
Photo source: commons.wikimedia.org

Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), exhibited her latest work in ceramics at age 98
at Garth Clark Gallery, NY (1991). She was an American artist and studio
potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the U.S.; she founded
and edited The Blind Man magazine in New York City with French artist
Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. She had earlier
studied art & theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress.
She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the
"Mama of Dada." She settled in Ojai, California in 1948 to be near the
Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. Autobiography, I Shock Myself
(1985) was published at age 92. Died at age 105 on 3-12-1998 (obituary).
Photo: Beatrice Wood (coolhunting.com/)

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881-1993) was an American educator &
a pioneer chemist. He was a major figure in physical chemistry
research specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions.
He joined UC Berkeley as a chemistry instructor in 1913, and
was granted Full Professorship in 1919. He served as Dean of
College of Chemistry (1949-1951). He retired from full-time
teaching in 1952 but remained Professor Emeritus at Berkeley
until his death. Hildebrand Hall on the Berkeley campus is
named for him. He worked with undergraduate students even
at the age of 100. His book Viscosity and Diffusivity: A Predictive
Treatment (June 1977) was published when he was 95-years-old.
"Is there a hydrophobic effect?" PNAS, 76, 194 (1979); Obituary.
Harold A. Scheraga (born Oct. 18, 1921), American physical chemist of proteins
and macromolecules, Cornell University Todd Professor Emeritus in Chemistry
is still active at age 98 (2019), doing both experimental & theoretical research
on protein structure folding & mechanism of action of thrombin on fibrinogen
(an important reaction in the blood clotting process). Scheraga has published
over 1170 scientific articles, and is an active editorial & advisory board member
of nine scientific journals. He continues to give seminars both at Cornell and
around the world. In 2005, he received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the
University of Gdansk. "My 65 years in protein chemistry"
[Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 48, 117-177 (May 2015)] published at age 94.
"A Conversation with Harold A. Scheraga" is an Oral History Project
of Cornell's Department of Chemistry with extended interviews with
senior faculty members. Scheraga shares his life's journey, professional
interests and reflections about his department and its nurturing environment. (Web)

98 in Geography
68) Cities located at 98o longitude:
San Antonio, Texas: 98o 30' W longitude & 29o 25' N latitude
Portage la Prairie, Canada: 98o 17' W longitude & 49o 58' N latitude
Puebla, Mexico: 98o 13' W longitude & 19o 03' N latitude
Phuket City, Thailand: 98o 24' E longitude & 7o 53' N latitude
Medan, Indonesia: 98o 40' E longitude & 3o 35' N latitude
No cities located at 98o latitude far north or south.
69) 98 is a code for international direct dial phone calls
for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
70) European Route E98 is a European road running from Topbogazi in
Turkey to the border with Syria. The European road E98 is a Class A
West-East connection road and connects the Turkish city Topbogazi
with the border of Syria which makes it at a length of approximately
58 kilometers or 36 miles.
71) US Highway 98 is an east-west U.S. highway that runs from western Mississippi
to southern Florida. Began in 1933 as a route between Pensacola & Apalachicola, FL
and has since been extended westward into Mississippi & eastward across Florida
Peninsula. It runs along much of the Gulf Coast between Mobile, Alabama and
Crystal River, Florida. Highway's western terminus is near Washington, MS at
U.S. Route 61. However, its signed terminus is with U.S. Route 84 in Meadville.
Eastern terminus is Palm Beach, FL, at State Road A1A. Length is 964 miles.
72) California State Route 98 (SR-98) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.
It is a loop of Interstate 8 (I-8) running west to east south of the Interstate through
the border city of Calexico. It passes through the city of Calexico and ends east of
Holtville. The highway was added to state highway system in 1933, and signed
as Route 98 by 1938. The highway was paved and rerouted to its current path
during 1950s. Portion of SR 98 from SR 111 east to I-8 is designated as part of the
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail. Highway length is 56.8 miles.
73) Michigan Highway 98 is the designation of a former 16.2-mile (26.1 km)
state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It existed
from 1919 to 1960. It ran between M-77 at Germfask (west end) and M-28
near McMillan (east end). M-98 was extended at the end of 1940s before
the whole trunkline was removed in the 1960s. Since the 1970s, part of
M-98 has been designated as one of two County Road H-44s in the state.
74) King's Highway 98
ran for 96.2km (59.8miles)
in South Ontario, Canada
from 1938-1970.
Western Terminus:
Highway 2 in Windsor;
Eastern Terminus:
Hwy 40/Hwy 3 in Blenheim.
Decommissioned in 1970;
Went through northern Essex County
& through south-central Chatham-Kent,
75) New Zealand State Highway 98 (SH 98) connects the settlements of
Lorneville (on State Highway 6 just north of Invercargill) and Dacre
(on SH 1) in the Southland region. Also known as Lorne Dacre Road,
the highway was gazetted in 1997 and provides an indirect northern
bypass of city of Invercargill. The road is very flat and passes through
prime agricultural land. One place, Rakahouka, lies halfway along the
route where SH 6 & 94 intersect. Highway length is 21.5 km (13.4 miles).
Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org
76) Beach 98th Street Station signed as Beach 98th Street-Playland,
is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the NYC Subway.
It is served by Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times. The station
was originally built by the Long Island Rail Road in April 1903
as Steeplechase on the Rockaway Beach Branch, and was also
a trolley stop of Ocean Electric Railway. Renamed Playland on
May 15, 1933, for former Rockaways' Playland, closed in 1985.
77) 98th Street Auto is an Auto Repair Business and Building
for sale. The 2530 sq. ft building is priced at $599,000
(August 26, 2019). Located at 1510 W 98th St, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 32,000 vehicles per day pass 98th Street.
Sale of business includes equipment and inventory.
Robert Wolf of KW Commercial & Nick Leviton of
Colliers International are agents to contact.
78) 98th Street Manhattan is a surprising street. Built in 1915,
St. Bernard's, an elite all-boys school was the one stand-out
structure on the East Side. Mt. Sinai Hospital, spans several
blocks with related medical buildings. On the West Side,
however, there are absolutely no businesses, religious
institutions, or schools between Central Park West
and the Hudson River— just a long string of residences.
79) 189 98th Avenue is the location of Wendy's in Oakland, CA,
a fast-food burger chain serving sides such as chili & baked potatoes.
Open 7 days a week with restaurant hours from 7:00 am-10:00 pm,
and Drive Thru hours from 7:00 am-12:00 am. First Wendy's opened
in Columbus, Ohio, on 11-15-1969 with motto "Quality is Our Recipe".
Now there are more than 6500 Wendy's in the U.S. & in 29 countries
around the world. Photo story of founder Dave Thomas (1932-2002).
He appeared in over 800 TV commercial ads for the chain (1989-2002).
Photo Source: locations.wendys.com
80) Trump International Hotel & Tower is located at 401 North Wabash Ave.,
Chicago, Illinois. Construction started on March 17, 2005 and completed
in 2009 with opening on 1-30-2009. There are 98 floors with 1388 ft height,
including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,171 feet. It is next to the main
branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan
beyond a series of bridges over the river. The Architect is Adrian Smith,
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, at cost of $847 million. Trump announced
in 2001 that the skyscraper would become the world's tallest building,
but after September 11 attacks that same year, he scaled back the plans.
When topped out in 2009, it became the 4th-tallest building in the US.
Final confrontation scene between Batman & The Joker in the 2008 film
The Dark Knight was shot at the then partially completed tower.
Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org
81)

Stanford Class of 1898		 Stanford Bronze Plaque 98 is 2 feet to the right of the front door
of Stanford University's Memorial Church, and is dedicated to
the Class of 1898. The first graduating class at Stanford was 1892.
Another Plaque 98 near Building 80 (Dept. of Human Biology)
is dedicated to the Class of 1998. In 1980, Stanford Provost
Don Kennedy strolled around the Inner Quad and calculated
it would take 512 years for the bronze class plaques embedded
in walkways to circle the entire area ending with Class of 2403.
Stanford Class of 1998

98 in Sports & Games
82) Football Players with Uniform #98—

Tom Harmon #98
U. of Michigan (1938-1940)
LA Rams (1946-1947)
Sam Adams #98
Seattle Seahawks (1994-1999)
Baltimore Ravens (2000-2001)
Tony Siragusa #98
Indianoplis Colts (1990-1996)
Baltimore Ravens (1997-2001)
Julian Peterson #98
SF 49ers (2000-2005)
Seahawks (2006-2008)
Jessie Armstead #98
New York Giants (1993-2001)
Redskins (2002-2003)

• Tom Harmon (1919-1990) sometimes known by the nickname "Old 98", was an American football player, military pilot,
actor, & sports broadcaster. played college football at the halfback position for University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940.
Harmon led the nation in scoring and was a consensus All-American in both 1939 and 1940 and won the Heisman Trophy,
the Maxwell Award, and the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award in 1940. He was inducted into the College Football
Hall of Fame in 1954. After the war, Harmon played professional football for the Los Angeles Rams (1946-1947) and had
the longest run from scrimmage during the 1946 NFL season. He later pursued a career in sports broadcasting and was
the play-by-play announcer for the first televised Rose Bowl in the late 1940s and worked for CBS from 1950 to 1962.
In Parade Magazine (8-23-2019), Mark Harmon was watching a film highlight reel of his Dad, Tom Harmon, scoring 33
touchdowns for University of Michigan, "he never got tackled, because on the reel, he scores every time he gets the ball!"
• Sam Adams (born 6-13-1973) is a former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the NFL for 14
seasons. He played college football at Texas A&M University, & earned All-American honors. He was originally drafted
by the Seattle Seahawks eighth overall in the 1994 NFL Draft, and he also played professionally for Baltimore Ravens,
Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos of the NFL. Adams was a three-time Pro Bowl
selection & a two-time All-Pro. Wore #98 for Seahawks, and #95 for Ravens. Combined with #98 Tony Siragusa to form
a 675-pound body wall on Baltimore Ravens defensive line. Won Super Bowl XXXV (1-28-2001) crushing NY Giants 34-7.
• Tony Siragusa (born 5-14-1967) nicknamed "Goose", is a former National Football League defensive tackle who spent
12 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens. From 2003 to 2015, he worked as a sideline analyst
for NFL games broadcast on the Fox Network, hosts the home renovation program Man Caves on the DIY Network,
Lead the Ravens to their first Super Bowl win in Super Bowl XXXV (2001). He finished his career with 562 tackles
(416 solo), 22 sacks, 5 forced fumbles, 9 fumble recoveries for 12 yards, and 28 pass deflections in 170 career games.
• Julian Peterson (born 7-28-1978) is a former American football linebacker who played in the NFL for 11 seasons.
He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft, playing with them till 2005,
wearing uniform #98. As linebacker, Peterson hit with abandon, rushed the passer, and covered big tight ends,
roles he'll maintain when traded to Seattle Seahawks (2006-2008). NFL career statistics: 756 tackles, 51.5 sacks,
8 interceptions. He was 5x Pro Bowl (2002-2003, 2006-2008). Played college football for Michigan State University.
• Jessie Armstead (born 10-26-1970) is a former American football linebacker in the NFL who played for eleven
seasons with the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins between 1993 and 2003. Career NFL statistics:
967 tackles, 40 sacks, 12 interceptions. 5x Pro Bowl (1997-2001). Won Super Bowl XLII (2-3-2008) as NY Giants
Assistant & Consultant, beating New England Patrios 17-14. Played college football at University of Miami.
Reference: Sporting News, Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction (2006), p. 219;
Photo Sources: Tom Harmon (heisman.com); Sam Adams (ebay.com); Tony Siragusa (ebay.com);
Julian Peterson (sfgate.com), Jessie Armstead (newyorksports.freeservers.co
83) Baseball's 98th World Series (2002): Anaheim Angels defeats San Francisco Giants 4-3.
The series was played from October 19-27, 2002, at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco
and Edison International Field of Anaheim in Anaheim. Troy Glaus of the Anaheim
Angels was named World Series MVP. Game 1 (10/19): Giants 4-Angels 3,
Game 2 (10/20): Angels 11-Giants 10, Game 3 (10/22): Angels 10,-Giants 4,
Game 4 (10/23): Giants 4-Angels 3, Game 5 (10/24): Giants 16-Angels 4,
Game 6 (10/26): Angels 6-Giants 5, Game 7 (10/27): Angels 4-Giants 1.
The Angels became first American League (AL) champion team not representing
AL East Division to win World Series since Minnesota Twins in 1991. The Angels
were also first American League Wild Card winner to win the World Series.
With this win the Angels got rid of supposed curse on their head stemming
from Anaheim Stadium being built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
84) Rickey Henderson had his 98th stolen base (3rd base)
against Al Williams of the Minnesota Twins on 7-30-1982
when he set the season stolen base record of 130 in 1982.
85) Most Extra-base Hits in a Season, since 1893, ranked 24th with 98—
Hank Greenberg (1935) with Detroit Tigers. [Top 4: Babe Ruth 119 (1921),
Lou Gehrig 117 (1927), Chuck Klein 107 (1930), Barry Bonds 107 (2001)]
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 123
86) Fewest Walks per 9 Innings in a Season, since 1893, ranked 31st with 0.98—
Cy Young (Cleveland, NL, 1898); (Top 3: Charles Silva 0.43, Minnesota, AL, 2005;
Christy Matthewson, NY, NL, 1913, Baker Adams, Pittsburg, NL, 1920)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 256
87) Lowest Winning Percentage for Games in which
They Appeared, 1957-2006 (mininum 200 losses)
Elmer Valo 98-248 (0.283) ranked 2nd
[Hawk Taylor 100-291 (0.256) ranked 1st]
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 392
88) 98 Yards Kickoff Returns in NFL Super Bowl
Fulton Walker of Miami Dolphins had 98 yard kickoff return
against Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVII (1983);
Andre Coleman of San Diego Chargers had 98 yards kickoff return
against San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX (1995);
(#1 Jacoby Jones, Baltimore Ravens 108 yards, Super Bowl XLVII, 2013;
#2 Desmond Howard, Green Bay Packers, 99 yards, Super Bowl XXXI, 1997)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998, DK Publishing, NY (1997), p. 57
89) Jack Sikma has 3rd best free throw percentage in NBA Playoffs with .980
with Milwaukee Bucks (1987) in 12 games with 48 out of 49 attempts.
(#1 Kiki Vandeweghem, Portland Trailblazers (1986) in 4 games with 32/32 = 100%;
#2 Mark Price, Cleveland Cavaliers (1990) in 5 games with 30/30 = 100%.
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998, DK Publishing, NY (1997), p. 100
90) Longest Home-Court Winning Streaks in NCAA Basketball.
UCLA ranks 3rd with 98 wins (1970-1976)
[#1 Kentucky 129 wins (1943-1955), #2 St, Bonaventure 99 wins (1948-1961)].
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998, DK Publishing, NY (1997), p. 83
91) 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Jimmy Connors
(6-1, 6-1, 6-2) on July 8, 1984.
92) 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini
(6-4, 3-6, 8-6) on July 6, 1991.
93) 98th U.S. Tennis Open: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg
(6-4, 6-2, 6-2) on September 10, 1978.
94) 98th Kentucky Derby was won by River Ridge in 2:01.8
with Jockey Ron Turcotte aboard (May 6, 1972).
95) 98th Preakness Stakes was won by Secretariat in 1:53
with Jockey Ron Turcotte aboard (May 19, 1973).
96) 98th Belmont Stakes was won by Amberoid in 2:29.60
with Jockey William Boland aboard (June 12, 1966).
97) 98th U.S. Golf Open was won by Lee Janzen
at Lake Course of Olympic Club in San Francisco
held June 18-21, 1997. He shot 280 (even par).
98) Hunt Brothers Pizza has been a sponsor
of NASCAR drivers for 10 seasons and
in 2018, they'll climbback on board the
#98 Ford Mustang of two-time NASCAR
XFINITY Series Champion Kevin Harvick.
Harvick collectively has 46 wins, 183
top-five finishes and 25 pole positions
in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career.
Photo Source: 98 Ford Mustang (reddit.com)

98 in Collectibles, Coins & Postage Stamps
99)
1998 China Panda Gold Coin,
100 yuan, 1 oz.
Obverse: Panda & Bamboo
Reverse: Temple of Heaven
Mintage: 20,507
100) 1898 Gold Sovereign,
Obverse: Veiled Queen Victoria
Reverse: St. George Slaying Dragon
Mintage: 4,361,347
Designers: Thomas Brock (obverse 1893)
& Benedetto Pistrucci (reverse 1817)
Victoria old head sovereigns were struck 1893-1901.
101) 1898-S Morgan Silver Dollar,
Obverse: Liberty Head, 1898 Date
Reverse: Eagle Emblem, One Dollar
Mintage: 4,102,000
Minted at: San Francisco
Designer & Engraver: George T. Morgan
Diameter: 38.1 mm; Weight: 26.73 grams
Composition: 90% Silver, 10% Cooper
102) 1898 Coronet Head Gold $10 Eagle,
Obverse: Coronet Liberty Head, 1898 Date
Reverse: Eagle Emblem, Ten Dollars
with motto "In God We Trust"
Mintage: 812,197
Minted at: Philadelphia
Designer & Engraver: Christian Gobrecht
Diameter: 27 mm; Weight: 16.72 grams
Composition: 90% Gold, 10% Cooper
103) There are 100 Marvel Value Stamps
issued 1974-1976 in Marvel Comic Books
Stamp #98 The Puppet Master
appeared as interior pin-up page in
Fantastic Four #8
Artist: Jack Kirby
Comic Issues containing this stamp:
Defenders #19, January 1975, p. 19.
Sub-Mariner #70, May 1974, p.19
104) There are 200 cards in Wings: Friend or Foe (Topps 1952)
Card #98 is TU-4 Russian Strategic Bomber
105) There are 160 cards in World on Wheels (Topps 1953)
Card #98 is Kaiser-Frazer American Sports Car DKF-161
106) There are 135 cards in Look 'n See (Topps 1952)
Card #98 is Adlai Stevenson (Statesman) (Source)
107) There are 156 cards in Scoop (Topps 1954)
Card #98 is Witch Hunts in Salem (September 22, 1692)
108) U.S. & Canada Postage Stamps with Scott Catalogue #98:
U.S. #98
15¢ Black
Abraham Lincoln
Bank Note F. Grill
Issued 1867
Sold for $1400
at Daniel Kelleher
Auctions, Lot 2300
August 2015
(Source) 		Canada #98
2¢ Orange
King Edward VII
& Queen Alexandra
Issued 1908
Selling at
Arpin Phialtely
for $157.50
(Mint VF, NH)
(Source)
109) U.S. & Canada Postage Stamps with 98¢ denomination:
Note: Stamps were downloaded & resized in same proportion as originals.

U.S. C147, 98¢
Grand Teton National Park
Issued: J6-28-2009 (Source)
Canada 2305c, 98¢
Winter Olympics
Issued: 1-12-2009 (Source)
Canada 2343c 98¢
Magi: Noel 2009
Issued: 11-2-2009 (Source)
110) Foreign Postage Stamps with 98 denomination:

France 4588, 0.98 Euro
River Seine, Paris
Issued: 3-27-2014 (Source)
France 4595, 0.98 Euro
Green Sea Turtle
Issued: 10-13-2014 (Source)
France 4713, 0.98 Euro
New French Industries
Issued: 10-27-2014 (Source)

France 4639, 0.98 Euro
80th Anniversary Paris Zoo
Issued: 6-15-2014 (Source)
Nicaragua 737, 98 Centavos
Queen Isabella
Issued: 6-25-1952 (Source)

98 in Art, Books, Music, & Film
111)

Woodblock Print #98 from 100 Views of Edo
"Fireworks at Ryogoku" (1857)
by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Brooklyn Museum
Hiroshige's Woodblock #98 inspired this haiku:
    Some thirty boats around
    the bridge by Sumida River
    watching fireworks in the sky.
 During summer and early fall, the Sumida River was the scene of a custom known
as "taking in the cool of the evening." Activity centered at Ryogoku Bridge, where
an endless variety of entertainment was offered on both land and water. The ideal
place was not in the crowded stalls of the bridgehead plazas but rather in one of
the nearby restaurants or in an individually chartered pleasure boat on the river.
Fireworks were an indispensable feature of evenings on the river. By the mid-17th
century, they were so popular that the threat of fire led authorities to issue decrees
restricting their use to the Sumida River.
Literary Reference: Brooklyn Museum (brooklynmuseum.org);
Photo Source: Hiroshige Woodblock Print #98 (wikipedia.org)
112) Krishna Print 98 depicts "Sri Krishna
and Srimati Radharani relaxing"
with birds gathered around the shores
of the lake & mountains in the distance,
from the Krishna Darshan Art Gallery
featuring 122 paintings of Lord Krishna.
113) Books with 98 in the Title

Ben Ezzell & Jim Blaney
Windows 98 (1998)
Mike Lupica
Summer of '98 (1999)
Priscilla Galloway
98 Medieval Jobs (2003)
William Patrick Dean
ATL-98 Carvair (2008)
Maceo Paeker
98% Funky Stuff (2013)
Click on book cover for source of photo image
114) Volume 98 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography
is titled "Modern British Essayists, First Series" (1990). From the highly personal and intellectual prose
of William Butler Yeats to the marvelously clear and shrewd essays of George Orwell, this DLB volume
contains a wide range of contemplations by the periods most influential thinkers. 32 entries include:
Mary Coleridge, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Holbrook Jackson, Andrew Lang, D. H. Lawrence,
Robert Lynd, George Orwell, Elizabeth Wordsworth, and William Butler Yeats.
115) Volume 98 of the Literary Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (2004)
covers the following writers: George Colman the Elder,
Marie le Jars de Gournay, Marie-Jeanne Roland, Thomas Sackville.
Michael L. LaBlanc (Ed.), The Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI, 2004
116) Volume 98 of the Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (2001)
covers these writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Alessandro Manzoni, Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
Juliet Byington (Ed.), The Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI, 2001
117) Volume 98 of the Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (2000)
is titled "Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets,
Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers
Who Died Between 1900 & 1999".
Jennifer Baise (Ed.), The Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000
118) Volume 98 of the Contemporary Literary Criticism (1997)
is titled "Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights,
Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, & Other Creative Writers". Among those profiled
in this volume are: Hannah Arendt, Ray Bradbury, Clifford Odets, Nelly Sachs.
Deborah A. Stanley (Editor), Gale Research, Detroit, 1997
119) Johann Sebastian Bach's Bach Cantata 98 is "Was Gott tut,
das ist wohlgetan", BWV 98 (What God does is well done),
It was composed in Leipzig for the 21st Sunday after Trinity
and first performed on 10 November 1726. The cantata in
five movements is intimately scored for four vocal soloists
(soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a four-part choir, and a
Baroque instrumental ensemble of two oboes, taille
(tenor oboe), two violins, viola, and basso continuo.
(YouTube: J. S. Bachstiftung). Photo: Cantata 98 (amazon.com)
120) Joseph Haydn's Symphony #98 in B major, Hoboken I/98,
is the sixth of the twelve London symphonies (#93-104)
composed by Joseph Haydn. It was completed in 1792 as
part of the set of symphonies composed on his first trip to
London. First performed at the Hanover Square Rooms
in London on 2 March 1792. Haydn recalled that at the
premiere of the No. 98, the first and fourth movements
were encored. Work is scored for one flute, two oboes,
two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings
and cembalo. Photo: Haydn Symphony 98 (amazon.com)
121) "An die ferne Geliebte" (To the distant beloved), Op. 98,
was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in April 1816.
Considered to be the first example of a song cycle by
a major composer. 6th episode: So he will send her the
songs he has written, and she will sing them to the lute
when the red of sunset falls across the blue sea and behind
the distant mountain: she will sing what he has sung, artlessly,
from the fullness of his heart, out of his longing, and these songs
will vanquish what keeps them so far apart, and will join one
loving heart to the other. YouTube; Photo Source: amazon.com
122) Felix Mendelssohn's Opus #98 is Loreley (1847).
There are 3 movements— Finale (Act 1),
Ave Maria, and Winzerchor, for this
unfinished opera (Mendelssohn died in 1847),
theatrical works, for voices, mixed chorus,
and orchestra. First published posthumously
in 1852. YouTube Photo Source: amazon.com
Max Bruch wrote opera Die Loreley (1863).
The Lorelei also spelled Loreley in German,
is a 433 ft high, steep slate rock on right bank
of the River Rhine. Myth & Folklore has sirens
singing on the rock luring sailors to shipwrecks.
Heinrich Heine's poem "Die Lorelei" (1822).
123) Johannes Brahms's Opus #98 is Symphony #4 (1885).
Brahms began working on the piece in Mürzzuschlag, then
in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1884, just a year after
completing his Symphony #3. Premiered on 10-25-1885 in
Meiningen, Germany. Symphony is scored for two flutes
(one doubling on piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two
bassoons, contrabassoon (third and fourth movements),
four horns, two trumpets, three trombones (4th movement
only), timpani, triangle (third movement only), and strings.
YouTube; Photo Source: amazon.com
124) Rolling Stone Magazine's poll of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
has named Al Green's "Love and Happiness" (1972) as the 98th Greatest Song.
(YouTube); (#1. Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone", #2. Rolling Stones "Satisfaction",
#3. John Lennon "Imagine") "60% of my audience are women," Green once said.
"And a woman is more sensitive than a man, especially in the area of love and
happiness." Hodges wrote the romantic "Love and Happiness" one morning
in between having sex with his girlfriend & watching wrestling on TV. Green
claimed that Hodges sang him the opening guitar riff on a road trip and they
drove 160 miles back to Memphis to record it that night. He has described the
song as "like a slow fever, building on the beat, pushing up the temperature
with each breath of the staccato horns and pushing through delirium as we
came up on the fade." Photo Source: (rollingstone.com/)
125) 98 Degrees is an American pop and R&B vocal group consisting of four vocalists:
brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, their friends Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons.
The group was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, California, although all
of its members originate from Ohio. Unlike most boy bands, they formed
independently and were later picked up by a record label, rather than being
assembled by a label or a producer. They have sold over 10 million records
worldwide and achieved eight top 40 singles in the U.S. After performing
1996-2002, they took an hiatus 2003-2012 to fulfill other ambitions. They
reunited in August 2012, performing at Mixtape Festival in Hershey, PA.
In 2017, they returned to Universal Music and put out their 2nd Christmas
album, Let it Snow, because of their 20th anniversary. In promotion of the
album, the group did "At Christmas Tour". Photo Source: (hooplanow.com)
126) Michael Curtis's "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) was selected
as the 98th best film in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (2007).
It's an American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan,
known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". It stars James Cagney,
Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf.
Cagney won 15th Academy Award for Best Actor (1942).
127) "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939)
was selected as the 98th best love stories film
in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions (2002).
Directed by William Dieterle & based on Victor Hugo's novel,
it starred Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke & Maureen O'Hara.
128) "The Karate Kid" (1984)
was selected as the 98th most inspiring film
in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers (2002).
Directed by John G. Avildsen, it's an American martial arts drama
about a teenager taught karate to defend himself against his bullies.
It starred Ralph Macchio, Noriyki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeth Shue.
129) "Blood Simple" (1984) was selected
as the 98th best thriller film
in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills (2001).
This American neo-noir crime film was written,
edited, produced, directed by Joel & Ethan Coen.
It starred John Getz & Framces
130) "The Court Jester" (1956) was selected
as the 98th funniest film in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs (2000).
Directed by Melvin Frank & Norman Panama, the film is set in
medieval England, concerning struggle to restore to the throne
the rightful heir. Starred Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone,
Angela Lansbury. Kaye received Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.
131) Song "All That Jazz" from the film "Chicago (2002)
was selected as 98th best song in AFI 100 Years... 100 Songs (2004).
Directed by Rob Marshall; Music: John Kander (Lyrics) & Fred Ebb,
Starred Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere. (YouTube).

98 in the Bible
132) Three citations of 98 in the King James Version of the Bible
• Now Eli was ninety and eight years old,
    and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
    — I.Samuel 4:15 (1141 BC)
• The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
    — Ezra 2:16 (536 BC)
• The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
    — Nehemiah 7:21 (536 BC)
Source: The Complete Concordance to the Bible: New King James Version,
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN, 1983, p. 66.
133) The 98th Psalm exhorts all to praise God:
1. O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things:
    his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
4. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth:
    make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
7. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
8. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.
 — Psalms 98.1, 4-5, 7-8 (1023 BC),
134) 98th Book of Enoch: "Self-indulgence of Sinners: Sin originated
by Man: all Sin recorded in Heaven: Woes for the Sinners."
3. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,
And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions;
And with all their glory and their splendour,
And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,
Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
6. I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,
That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,
And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.
14. Woe to you who set at nought the words of the righteous;
for ye shall have no hope of life.
 — Book of Enoch XCVIII.3, 6, 14 (circa 105 B.C.-64 B.C.)
translated by R. H. Charles, S.P.C.K., London, 1917, pp. 140-141
135) 98th Saying of Gospel of Thomas:
Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who wanted to kill someone powerful.
While still at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the wall to find out whether
his hand would go in. Then he killed the powerful one."
— Gospel of Thomas 98 (114 sayings of Jesus, circa 150 A.D.)
(trans. Marvin Meyer, 1992; adapted by Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief, p. 239)
136) In Chapter 98 of The Aquarian Gospel, Sermon on the Mount, continued. Jesus
reveals to the 12, spiritual aspects of the 7th, 8th, and 10th Commandments.
  7. Is love a passion that is subject to the will of man?
  8. Can man pick up his love, as he would pick up precious
      gems, and lay it down, or give it out to any one?
  9. Can love be bought and sold like sheep?
10. Love is the power of God that binds two souls and makes them
      one; there is no power on earth that can dissolve the bond.
16. Upon a table of the law, the great lawgiver wrote, Thou shalt not steal.
21. Upon a table of the law we also read: Thou shalt not covet anything.
22. To covet is an all-consuming wish to have what is not right for one to have.
23. And such a wish, within the spirit of the law, is theft.
— The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 98
Transcribed from the Akashic Records by Levi H. Dowling
DeVorss & Co., Santa Monica, CA, 1908, Reset 1964, pp. 143-144
137) Chapter 98 of Pistis Sophia (circa 150 A.D.):
When then the Saviour had said this, Mary Magdalene started forward and said:
"My Lord, bear with me and be not wroth with me, if I question on all things
with precision and certainty. Now, therefore, my Lord, is then another the word
of the mystery of the Ineffable and another the word of the whole gnosis?"
The Saviour answered and said: "Yea, another is the mystery of the Ineffable
and another the word of the whole gnosis. Surely; for every one who shall receive
a mystery of the Light-kingdom, will go and inherit up to the region up to which
he hath received mysteries. But he will not know the gnosis of the universe,
wherefor all this hath arisen, unless he knoweth the one and only word of the
Ineffable, which is the gnosis of the universe. And again in openness: I am
the gnosis of the universe. And moreover it is impossible to know the one and
only word of the gnosis, unless a man first receive the mystery of the Ineffable.
But all the men who shall receive mysteries in the Light,— every one will go
and inherit up to the region up to which he hath received mysteries."
— Pistis Sophia, Chapter 98
(Translated by Violet MacDermott, Edited by Carl Schmidt,
Nag Hammadi Studies, IX: Pistis Sophia, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1978, pp. 233-236

98 in Philosophy & Religion
138) Hymn 98 in Book 7 of the Rig Veda is praise for God Indra
2 Thou dost desire to drink, each day that passes, the pleasant food which thou hast had aforetime,
    O Indra, gratified in heart and spirit, drink eagerly the Soma set before thee.
3 Thou, newly-born, for strength didst drink the Soma; the Mother told thee of thy future greatness.
    O Indra, thou hast filled mid-air's wide region, and given the Gods by battle room and freedom.
6 Thine is this world of flocks and herds around thee, which with the eye of Surya thou beholdest.
    Thou, Indra, art alone the Lord of cattle; may we enjoy the treasure which thou givest.
7 Ye Twain are Lords of wealth in earth and heaven, thou, O Brhaspati, and thou, O Indra.
    Mean though he be, give wealth to him who lauds you. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.
— Rig Veda, Book 7, 98.2-3, 6-7 (circa 1500 B.C.)
139)

Book of the Dead cover		 Chapter 98 in The Papyrus of Ani, Egyptian Book of the Dead
is titled "for fetching a ferryboat in the sky:
Hail to you, you plateau which is in the sky north of the Great Waterway,
for whoever sees it will not die. I stand upon you, I appear as a god, I have
seen you and I will not die. I stand upon you, I appear as a god, I cackle
as a goose, I fly up thence as the falcon upon the branches.
  O Dew of the Great One, I cross the earth towards the sky, I stand up as Shu,
I make the sunshine to flourish on the sides of the ladder which is made to mount
up to the Unwearying Stars, far from decapitation. Bring me those who repel evil
when I have passed you by at polar region of Tepen. 'Where have you come from?'
  'O Tepen, I have come rom the Lake of Burning in the Field of Fire.'
  'What did you live on in the Lake of Burning in the Field of Fire?'
'I lived on that noble tree of Ikaa who brought these boats from the Dried-up Lake for me.
The water-jar was on... that I might stand in the Sacred Bark and guide the waters;
that I might stand in the Sacred Bark and conduct the god; that I might stand up,
my staff being a rod.' 'Go ahead and sail.' The gates are opened for me in Letopolis,
the earth is split open for me in Wenu, and the staffs have been given to me.
— Egyptian Book of the Dead: Book of Going Forth by Day
    Complete Papyrus of Ani, Chapter 98, (circa 1250 B.C.), pp. 109-110
    (translated by Raymond Faulkner), Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1994
    Image Source:: Book Cover (wisdomportal.com)
140) Sea nymph Thetis wonders "Why would the great god want me?"
in Line 98 from Book 24 of Homer's Iliad
Iris, whose feet are like wind, stood near her:
"Rise, Thetis. Zeus in his wisdom commands you."
And the silver-footed goddess answered her:
"Why would the great god want me? I am ashamed
To mingle with the immortals, distraught as I am.
But I will go, and he will not speak in vain."
— Homer, The Iliad, XXIV.95-100 (circa 800 BC)
(translated by Stanley Lombardo)
Hackett Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1997, p. 470
141) Nausicaa & friends "waited for the clothes to dry"
in Line 98 from Book 6 of Homer's Odyssey
The ocean washed pebbles up along the shore.
They bathed and anointed themselves richly with olive oil.
Then they had their dinner along the banks of the river
and waited for the clothes to dry in the gleam of the sun.
— Homer, The Odyssey, VI.95-98 (circa 800 BC)
(translated by Albert Cook)
Norton & Co., New York, 1967, p. 81
142) Fragment 98 of Heraclitus (540 B.C.-480 B.C.):
Opposition brings concord.
Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— Philip Wheelwright, Heraclitus,
Athenum, New York (1964), p. 90
Originally published by Princton University Press, 1959
Romania #1442, 10 Bani stamp honoring 2500th anniversary
of birth of Heraclitus of Ephesus (issued October 25, 1961)
Poem "Found" honoring awakening of Heraclitus (4-1-2019).
Image Source: Heraclitus Romanian Stamp (stampsoftheworld.co.uk)
143) Section 98 of Plato's Phaedo— Socrates on nature of mind
I thought that by assigning a cause to each
phenomenon separately and to the universe as
a whole he would make perfectly clear what is
best for each and what is the universal good...
The cause of everything that Socrates does is mind—
— Plato (428-348 BC), Phaedo 98abc (360 BC)
(trans. Hugh Tredennick), Edited by Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns,
Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Bollingen Series LXXI,
Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 79-80
144) Section 98 of Plato's Meno— Virtue cannot be taught
Socrates: If virtue were knowledge, and conversely, that if it could
be taught, it would be knowledge, but there are no teachers of it,
and so that it cannot be taught and is not knowledge... At the same
time we agreed that it is something good, and that to be useful
and good consists in giving right guidance.
— Plato (428-348 BC), Meno 98de (360 BC)
(trans. W.K.C. Guthrie), Edited by Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns,
Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Bollingen Series LXXI,
Princeton University Press, 1961, p. 382
145) Verse 98 of Buddha's Dhammapada: Canto VII— The Holy One
That spot is truly delightful where the Holy Ones (arahant) reside,
be it village or forest, valley or high ground.
— Buddha, Dhammapada Verse 98 (240 B.C.)
(translated by Sangharakshita, Dhammapada: The Way of Truth, 2001, p. 40)
146) 98th Verse in Chapter 18 of Ashtavakra Gita
(Sage Ashtavakra's dialogue with King Janaka):
The Liberated-one who abide in the Self, under all conditions,
is released from the idea of actions and of duty. He is the same
everywhere, and due to the absence of desires in him, does not
brood over what he has done and what he has not done.
— Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 18, Verse 98 (circa 400 B.C.)
translated by Swami Chinmayanda, Ashtavakra Gita,
Chinmaya Publications Trust, Madras, India, 1972, p. 380
(Chinmayanada's Commentary: The Master-of-Perfection
has neither the ego-sense (I-ness), nor the ego-feeling (my-ness).
Since he has not ego, he has no sense of action or duty. "Due to the
absence of desires in him", he has no regrets if life. He never broods
over the past, or upon the future. He lives in the eternal-present.
He is a law unto himself. He is unique.
147) Aphroism 98 of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra:
By slackening of effort and by thought-transformatrion as infinite.
Vyasa Commentary:
The sentence is completed by adding the word, 'is secured'.
Posture becomes perfect when effort to that end ceases,
so that there may be no more movement of the body.
Or, when the mind is transformed into the infinite.
Patanjali (circa 200 B.C.), Yoga Sutra II.47: Aphroism 98 (circa 200 B.C.)
translated by Rama Prasada, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers,
New Delhi, 1995, p. 170.
148) 98th Trigraph of the Ling Ch'i Ching: Coarse Harnonization
The image of prosperity in the end.
Yin and yang gain their positions.
Ken (Mountain) * Northeast
Oracle:
It is like a newly married wife dwelling in the family,
but not yet in harmony. Striving and exerting her own strength,
their posterity and family name are soon continued.
Verse:
In whose family has the daughter taken up the halberd and spear?
One must know to seek prfits and riches from them.
Venturing past the beginning, in the end they will live happily,
Unhindered in joyous love and tranquil wandering.
— Tung-fang Shuo,
Ling Ch'i Ching (circa 222-419)
(trans. Ralph D. Sawyer & Mei-Chün Lee Sawyer, 1995, p. 226)
149) In Chapter 2, Verse 98 of the Lankavatara Sutra,
Mahamati the Bodhisatva-Mahasattva asked Buddha
the meaning of 108 statements:
I will instruct you as regard realisation and its teaching;
listen to me intently; I will give you an explanation
of the statements, O son, listen to me in regard to
the 108 statements as recounted by the Buddhas.
 The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD)
(translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 31)
150) In Chapter 3, Verse 98 of the Lankavatara Sutra,
Buddha tells Mahamati the Bodhisatva-Mahasattva
about various forms of the will-body:
The mind liberated from its objective world,
the getting-rid of the twofold Svabhava
[parikalpita and paratantra], a turning-up
at the seat of mentation— this I state to be no-birth.
— The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD)
(translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 174)
151) In the 99 Names of Allah, the 98th Name is Ar-Rasheed:
The Guide to the Right Path, The One who guides.
152) Chapter 98 of Mohammed's Holy Koran is titled "The Clear Evidence"
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Those who disbelieved from among followers of the Book and polytheists could not
    have separated (from the faithful) until there had come to them the clear evidence:
2. An apostle from Allah, reciting pure pages,
3. Wherein are all the right ordinances.
4. And those who were given the Book did not become
    divided except after clear evidence had come to them.
7. (As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the best of men.
8. Their reward with their Lord is gardens of perpetuity beneath which
    rivers flow, abiding therein for ever; Allah is well pleased with them
    and they are well pleased with Him; that is for him who fears his Lord.
— Mohammed, Holy Koran, Chapter 98 (7th century AD)
(translated by M. H. Shakir, Holy Koran, 1983)
153) Text 98 of On Prayer: 153 Texts
of Evagrios the Solitary (345-399 AD)
At the time of such trials, use a brief but intense prayer.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 66)
154) Text 98 of On Those who Think that They are Made Righteous by Works: 226 Texts
of Saint Mark the Ascetic (early 5th century AD)
He who can without strain keep vigil, be long-suffering
and pray is manifestly a partaker of the Holy Spirit.
But he who feels strain while doing these things, yet
willingly endures it, also quickly receives help.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 133)
155) Text 98 of On Watchfulness and Holiness
of Saint Hesychios the Priest (circa 7th century AD)
Whenever we are filled with evil thoughts, we should throw
the invocation of our Lord Jesus Christ into their midst. Then,
as experience has taught us, we shall see them instantly dispersed
like smoke in the air. Once the intellect is left to itself again,
we can renew our constant attentiveness and our invocation.
Whenever we are distracted, we should act in this way.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 179)
156) Text 98 of On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination: 100 Texts
of Saint Diadochos of Photiki (400-486 AD)
Dispassion is not freedom from attack by the demons, for to be free from such attack
we must, as the Apostle says, 'go out of the world' (1 Corinthians. 5:10); but it is
to remain undefeated when they do attack. Troops protected by armor, when attacked
by adversaries with bows and arrows, hear the twang of the bow & actually see most
of the missiles that are shot at them: yet they are not wounded, because of the strength
of their armor. Just as they are undefeated because they are protected by iron, so we
can break through the black ranks of the demons if, because of our good works, we are
protected by the armor of divine light and the helmet of salvation. For it is not only to
cease from evil that brings purity, but actively to destroy evil by pursuing what is good.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 294) Full Text; Google Text
157) Text 98 of For the Encouragement of the Monks in India who had Written to Him: 100 Texts
of Saint John of Karpathos (circa 680 AD)
Let the fire of your prayer, ascending upwards as you meditate
on the oracles of the Spirit, burn always on the altar of your soul.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 321)
158) Text 98 of On the Character of Men: 170 Texts
of Saint Anthony of Egypt (251-356 AD)
Soul is in the body, intellect is in the soul, and intelligence is in the intellect,
When God is known and praised throught all these, He makes the soul immortal,
granting it incorruptibility and eternal delight; for God has granted the gift
of being to all creatures solely through His goodness.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 344)
159) Verse 98 of Chapter 5 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
Three times by night and by day one should utilize the three
"heaps of merit" (skandhas). By means of this, and by
taking refuge in the Conquerors and in the Thought of
Enlightenment, the rest of one's faults are quieted.
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
V.98 (Guarding of Total Awareness: Samprajanyaraksana) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 171)
160) Verse 98 of Chapter 6 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
The acceptance of praise destroys my security and
my desire for emancipation, and it creates envy of
those with good qualities, and anger at their success.
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
VI.98 (Perfection of Patience: Ksanti-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 181)
161) Verse 98 of Chapter 8 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
Surely it is a false calculation to think that there is an "I",
because it is another who has died and it is another who is born.
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
VIII.98 (Perfection of Contemplation: Dhyana-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 202)
162) Verse 98 of Chapter 9 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
If this contact is not in existence, how is it the origin
of sensation? For the sake of what is this effort?
Of what is the binding and why should it be?
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
IX.98 (Perfection of Wisdom: Prajna-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 220)
163) Section 98 of Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu:
In a lecture Joshu said, "If you say 'clear' it is not yet clear.
If you say 'dark', it is on the verge of getting clear.
Which, then, are you in?"
A monk said, "In neither."
Joshu said: "Then you must be in the middle."
The monk said, "If I were in the middle, I would be in both."
Joshu said, "This monk has been here long enough to say it this way,
yet still he has not gone beyond the three words ['clear', 'dark', 'middle'].
Even if he has gone beyond them, he is still in them. You— what do you say?"
The monk said, "I can use the three words."
Joshu said, "Then why did you not say so before?"
Note: Here "clear" and "dark" suggest "enlightenment",
as opposed to "ignorance". The point of the dialogue
is that the moment you make such conceptual
distinctions, you end up contradicting yourself.
Words are not to be defined. They are to be used.
— Joshu (aka Chao-Chou) (778-897)
Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu, translated with commentary
by Yoel Hoffman, Autumn Press, Brookline, MA, 1978, pp. 47-48.
164) Section 98 of Every End Exposed: 100 Koans of Master Kido
is titled "What Are You Talking About?
When Master Tokusho came to see Master Rokumon,
Rokumon asked, "Where have you recently come from?"
Tokusho said, "From Yokuin. Last night I stayed over at
Hokoji Cliff." Rokumon said, "Which of the 'five eyes'
[material eye, divine eye, eye of wisdom, of the law, and of
Buddha] is the eye proper?" Tokusho said, "I have known
your name for a long time." Rokumon said, "What has
this place got to do with you?" Tokusho said,
"What are you talking about?"
Master Kido: Tokusho says, "A starving man
will waste no time in choosing his food."
Master Hakuin: I came especially to see Your Reverend.
Plain Saying: I came all this way, so why don't you prepare something.
Note: In answering that he comes "From Yokuin", Tokusho speaks
to the point. Rokumon tries to trap Tokusho in a speculative argument
that has nothing to do with the situation of Tokuso and Rokumon facing
each other. However, Tokuso refuses to be taken in and sticks to the
business of his having come to see Rokumon. Rokumon responds to
Tokusho's talk, forgetting about the "five eyes" problem. At this Tokusho
ironically suggests (in "What are you talking about?") that is after all
he who is pulling th strings. Kido implies that Rokumon is not careful
enough in the choice of "means" (to test the other), whereas Hakuin's
substitute phrase and plain saying suggest the natural attitude of the
"coming to see someone" situation.
— Master Kido (1189-1269)
Every End Exposed: 100 Koans of Master Kido, translated with commentary
by Yoel Hoffman, Autumn Press, Brookline, MA, 1977, p. 123.
165) Case 98 of Hekiganroku: "Tempyo's Two Wrongs"
Engo's Introduction: During the summer session I have burdened you monks
from the five lakes with a great deal of talking. The diamond treasure sword
cuts through all complications. Now, after all my instruction, you are left
with nothing. Tell me, what is the diamond treasure sword? Lift up your eyes
and see the sharpness of the sword in the following.
Main Subject: When Tempyo went on a pilgrimage visiting teachers, he stayed with
Sai-in. He always said, "Don't say you understand Buddhism. I find no one who can
speak on it." One day Sai-in heard him and called "Ju-i [Tempyo's personal name]!"
Tempyo looked up at Sai-in. Sai-in said, "Wrong!" Tempyo walked a few steps away
and Sai-in once again said, "Wrong!" Tempyo turned and approached Sai-in, who
said, "I have just said, 'Wrong!' Who is wrong? Am I or are you?" Tempyo said,
"I am". Sai-in said, "Wrong!" Tempyo said nothing. Sai-in said, "Stay here this
summer and let us discuss the two wrongs." But Tempyo instead left Sai-in.
    Later, when Tempyo was abbot of his own temple, he said to his
disciples, "When I went on a pilgrimage it happened, in the course of events,
that I was brought to see Abbot Shimyo [Sai-in's other name], who told me
twice that I was wrong. It was not then that I was wrong, however, but when
I first started south on my pilgrimage. I had already said it was wrong."
Setcho's Verse:
Zen people are too ofter frivolous;
They study much, learn much, but to no avail.
How deplorable, laughable, is old Tempyo!
You say you were wrong to make a pilgrimage:
Wrong! Wrong!
Sai-in's good words grow pale beside my "Wrong".
Once again Setcho says,
"Some monk may come forth and say, "Wrong!"
Can you tell my 'Wrong' from Tempyo's?"
— Setcho (980-1052), Hekiganroku, 98 (Blue Cliff Records)
(translated by Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics, 1977, pp. 395-396)
166) "Anjou is my country" in the 98th Line of Eschenbach's Parzival:
'You know how to ask in moderation! I shall grant you this and more besides.
Why do you not call my brother Gahmuret Angevin?
Anjou is my country. Let us both take our names from it.'
— Wolfram von Eschenbach (1165-1217) Parzival (1195)
Book VI "Parzival at King Arthur's Court" Lines 96-98
(translated by Cyril Edwards, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 5)
(translated by Jessie Laidlay Weston, 1894, Reprint 1912)
167) Section 98 in Chapter II:
"The Essentials of Learning" of Chu Hsi's Chin-ssu lu (1175):
Many people think they are mature and experienced and therefore are
not willing to learn from their inferiors. Consequently they remain ignorant
all their lives. Some people regard themselves as the first ones to know moral
principles and for them there is no such thing as ignorance. Consequently
they too are not willing to learn from their inferiors. Because they are
never willing to learn, they think of many things that deceive themselves
and others. They are willing to remain ignorant throughout their lives.
— Chu Hsi (1130-1200), Reflections on Things at Hand (Chin-ssu lu)
translated by Wing-Tsit Chan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1967, p. 84
168)
Letter 98 (De anima: On the Soul) of Letters of Marsilio Ficino:
Marsilio Ficino to Tommaso Valeri, an outstanding physician: greetings.
I have read in Homer that one man of medicine is worth a host to other men, and justly so,
for the sacred writings of the Hebrews teach that the power of healing is the gift of God,
rather than an invention of men. Let us honor the man of medicine because the Almighty
created him of necessity. Furthermore, the Gentiles regard te masters of this art as gods.
They bestowed divine honors upon Isis, Apollo, & Aesculapus, and also upon outstanding
doctors... Hence Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Apollonius of Tyana are said to have cured
diseases with chants rather than with herbs... Above all the doctor sahould remember that
the creator of health is God, that nature is God's instrument for establishing or maintaining
health, and that the doctor is the servant of both. So he does not provide the strength but
prepare the ground and removes obstacles for the master craftsman... So, of all the ways
of cleansing and regulating the body, exercise is the most healthy.
— Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), Letter to Tommaso Valeri
Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino,
Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 1996, pp. 205-207
Marsilio Ficino
(1433-1499)
169)
Section 98 of Wang Yang Ming's Instructions for Practical Living:
When friends studied, many selected Hui-an [Chu Hsi]
for criticism. The Teacher said, "This is purposely
to find disagreement. It s wrong. When at times my ideas
are different from those of Hui-an, it is because I had
to argue for my position, so that the student may not
make an infinitesimal mistake in the beginning and end
up with an infinite error. But my ultimate purpose and
that of Hui-an are not different. For the rest, where
his statement and explanations are clear and appropriate,
why does a single word of his need to be altered?
 — Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529),
Instructions for Practical Living or Ch'uan-hsi lu (1518), I.98
(translated by Wing-tsit Chan, Columbia University Press,
Nw York, 1963, pp. 59-60)
Wang Yang Ming
Harvard Fogg Museum
170) 98th Verse of Angelus SilesiusThe Cherubinic Wanderer (1657):
Der todte Wille herscht.

Dafern mein Will' ist todt
so muss GOtt wass ich wil:
Jch schreib Jhm selber
für das Muster und das Zil. 		Five Degrees in God

Five ladder-rungs there are in God—
  Slave, Friend, Son, Bride and Spouse.
Who climbeth higher unselfs himself,
  Drops count of I's and Thou's.
— Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), The Cherubinic Wanderer I.98
translated by Maria M. Böm, Angelus Silesius' Cherubinischer Wandersmann
Peter Lang, New York, 1997, p. 87) (German version)
171)
Page 98 of The Book of Angelus Silesius (1976):
He who turns the senses
to the Light that is his center
hears what no ear can hear,
sees where no light can enter.

Prayer is neither word nor gesture,
chant nor sound.
It is to be in still communication
with our Ground.
— Angelus Silesius (1624-1677),
The Book of Angelus Silesius,
(translated from German by Frederick Franck,
Vintage Books, New York, 1976, p. 98)
Angelus Silesius
aka Johannes Scheffler
172) Section 98 of Swedenborg's Worlds in Space (1758):
On the World or Planet of Saturn, and its Spirits and Inhabitants—
They are very humble in their worship, for they regard themselves as worthless in
this respect. They worship our Lord, and acknowledge Him as the One and Only God.
The Lord actually appears to them from time to time in the form of an angel, that is,
as a man; and then His Divinity shines out from His face, and affects their minds,
The inhabitants also speak with spirits, when they are old enought; the spirits teach
them about the Lord, how He should be worshipped, and how they ought to live.
— Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), The Worlds in Space, 98
(translated from Latin by John Chadwick, Swedenborg Society, London, 1997, pp. 73-74)
173) Chapter 98 of Wei Wu Wei's Ask the Awakened (1963)
is titled "The Illusion of Being":
There can be no reality but that which we interpret as such sensorially.
There can be no object, nor anything positive other than that which is
so interpreted. There can be no object without a subject, no positive
without a negative; therefore beyond that dualism there cannot be
either subject or object, positive or negative. Without a knower
how could there be anything to be known as 'reality'?
    Metaphysically speaking, searching for anything,
a positive thing termed 'reality' or a negative thing
termed 'non-reality', is looking in the wrong direction.
    When the Master of Mu-mon told him to look for
the Great Bear in the Southern hemisphere he was telling his pupil
to turn his back on the object in order to achieve understanding,
that is awakening. But Mu-mon had to see that he must turn his
back on the subject also.
— Wei Wu Wei (1895-1986), Ask the Awakened (1963), pp. 230-233
    (Archives, "How Open Secret led me to Wei Wu Wei")
174)

        Paul Brunton
          (1898-1981)

Notebooks of Paul Brunton
Volume XVI, Paras #98
from various chapters
Volume 16:
Enlightened Mind,
Divine Mind
Larson Publications
Burdett, NY, 1988,
Part 1:
pp. 16, 45, 91, 162, 203;
Part 2:
pp. 14, 50, 70
Part 3: (no para #98)
Part 4: pp. 14, 37

Visit with PB
at his home,
Corseaux sur Vevey
in September 1979 		Para #98 from Volume 16, Part 1
of Paul Brunton's Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind—
Notebooks: "World-Mind in Individual Mind—
The true explanation of mystical ecstasy is not union with God but union with the Soul. (1.98)
    The Witness is both an abstract metaphysical concept and a concrete mystical experience.
It is not an ultimate one, yielding pure Being, the unsplit Consciousness, but a provisional one. (2.98)
    Why did Ramana Maharshi and Ramakrishna refuse to heal themselves?
One possible explanation is that healing powers are like intellectual powers.
One may be a realized person and yet not possess much intellect. Similarly,
one may not possess healing power. Realization does not endow one with
encyclopaedic knowledge or with all the talents. (3.98)
    Great Adepts are content to make history rather than figure in it, although their
figures have glowed brightly in history like shooting stars and then disappeared. (4.98)
    The capacity to receive truth is limited by the moral, intellectual, and intuitional
limitations of the receiver. Hence the sages put their teachings in a form proportionate
to the receptivity of their audience. They keep silent on what it is unprofitable
to mention because impossible to grasp. (5.98)
Para #98 from Volume 16, Part 2 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "World-Idea"—
    The World-Idea is slowly expanding itself on earth, incarnating itself. (1.98)
    Infinite Mind releases from within itself an infinite variety of suns, stars,
planets, substances, plants, and creatures. Even the process itself is an infinite one,
countered only by necessary dissolutions and destructions, pauses and rests. Even universes
get old and die off. All that is released into manifestation is subject to this perpetual law
of movement and change, growth, decay, death, reappearance, and recurrence. (3.98)
    There is order in the starry systems, on the planets, and on this earth, because
the World-Idea provides law and pattern. What is true of the universe is true
also of man, of his body and his inner being. (4.98)
Para #98 from Volume 16, Part 4 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "The Alone"—
    There is a Mind which is self-existent, unique, unlike anything else, unbegotten. (1.98)
    After the last sermon has been preached, the last book written, Mind remains
the Mystery behind all mysteries. Thought cannot conceive It, imagination picture
It, nor language express It. The greatest mystic's experience is only his own personal
reaction to Its atmosphere, as from a distance. Even this blows him to pieces like a
bomb, but the fact that he can collect them together again afterwards shows that it
must have been present in some inexplicable supernormal way and was not lost,
both to continue existence and to remember the event. (2.98)
175) "To Live a Radiant Life" is Lesson 98
of Subramuniyaswami's Merging with Siva (1999):
Chapter 14: Life, the Great Experience—
• It is one thing to talk; it is another thing to demonstrate what is declared.
Demonstration is a result of your awareness flowing through the super-conscious
area of the mind... On and on through the mind we travel daily, once awareness
has become detached from the limited area of mind it has been trapped in.
The journey seems endless! It is. Seek on, seek on. Look in, look in. And
on that solid foundation of good character, move into that place in the mind
and live there, seeing no difference between the inner and the outer states
of fluctuating awareness. Be that now for which you have been striving.
The search is within. Go within the mind. Go in and in and in and in
and make fathomable the unfathomable depth of Being. You can do it.
It has been done countless times over the past several thousand years.
Give yourself the great benefit of believing in yourself and flow
inward, inward—to the totality of it all.
— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics
Himalayan Academy, Kapaa, Hawaii, 1999, pp. 203-204
176)


— Seung Sahn (1927-2004),
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha:
The Teaching of Zen Master
Seung Sahn, Edited by
Stephen Mitchell, Grove Press,
New York, 1976, pp. 224-225		 Chapter 98 of Zen Master Seung Sahn's
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha
is titled "Ko Bong Explains a Poem":
“'From the ten directions all people come together.
Each one learns not-doing.
This is the field of becoming Buddha.
Empty mind passes the test and comes back.'
Do these words help people or not?”
Ko Bong said, "They do."
"Which sentence helps them?"
"Bring each one here."
"What is the first sentence:
"From the ten directions all people come together?"
"The dragon and the snake combine.
Enlightenment and ignorance become mutual."
"Who learns not-doing?"
"Buddha and eminent teachers are swallowed;
the eye links ground and sky."
"What is the field of becoming Buddha?"
"From West to East there are one hundred thousands,
from North to South eight thousand."
"What is the last sentence:
'Empty mind passes the test and comes back'?"
"In action and in nonaction, the ancient way appears.
The way is not dragged down into the chasm of turbulence."
"So in each sentence nature is seen. Each one is the truth."
"What have you seen and attained?"
The student shouted "KATZ!!!"
Ko Bong said, "This is taking a stick and trying to hit the moon."
177) Koan 98 of Zen Master Seung Sahn—"Crying in Front of the Gate"
Zen Master Hae Bong visited Zen Master Man Gong
and, standing in front of the gate, cried three times,
"Aigo! Aigo! Aigo!" Man Gong got up from his cushion,
lay down on his bed, and correctly answered him.
Then Hae Bong clapped his hands and laughed, "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Upon hearing this, Man Gong instantly got out of bed
and answered him again.
  1. What was Man Gong's first answer?
  2. What was Man Gong's second answer?
Commentary:
Man Gong and Hae Bong fall into the ocean upside down.
— Seung Sahn (1927-2004),
The Whole World Is A Single Flower
365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life,
Tuttle, Boston, 1992, p. 67
178) Page 98 of Swami Chinmayanananda's
"Say Cheese!" is titled "Change of Vision":
The universe is a cosmos and not a chaos; there exists a mental affinity,
a scientific law, a rhythm of mental relationship in which the entire living
world is held together, in one web of love. To assume differences in the
world is to belie this great oneness in life... Seek him in the thrill of
dawn, in the sadness of the dusk, in the embrace of rains, in the hustlling
storms, in the murmuring breeze— in green pastures, in the blue lotus,
in the confluence of the graceful Ganges & the restless Yamuna. He is
everywhere— in everything— not with mortal legs & hands, but in his
presence as the divine joy infinite. You are in him— you are but he alone.
— Swami Chinmayanananda (1916-1993), "Say Cheese!",
Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, Mumbai, 2004, p. 98
Photo Source: "Say Cheese!" (goodreads.com)

98 in Poetry & Literature
179) Poem 98 of Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101)
is titled "Long Ago I Lived in the Country" (1093):
Written at end of a painting on "Restoration of the Herdsmen"
by Ch'ao Yueh-chih (1059-1129)
Long ago I lived in the country,
knew only sheep and cows.
Down smooth riverbeds on the cow's back,
steady as a hundred-weight barge,
a boat that needs no steering— while banks slipped by
I stretched out and read a book— she didn't care.
Before us we drove a hundred sheep,
heeding my whip as soldiers heed a drum;
I didn't lay it on too often—
only struggles I gave a lash to.
In lowlands, grass grows tall,
but tall grass is bad for cows and sheep;
so we headed for the hills, leaping sags and gullies
(climbing up and down made my muscles strong),
through long woods where mist wet my straw coat and hat...
But those days are gone— I see them only in a painting.
No one believes me when I say I regret
not staying a herdsman all my life.
— translated by Burton Watson,
Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o,
Copper Canyon Press, 1994, p. 124)
Su Tung-p'o
(1036-1101)
180) Verse 98 of Rubáiyát, of Omar Khayyam (1048-1122):
Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late
Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
And make the stern Recorder otherwise
Enregister, or quite obliterate!
 (translated by Edward Fitzgerald, London, 1st Ed. 1859, 2nd Ed. 1868)
181) Verse 98 of Rumi Daylight:
Don't hide Your heart but reveal it,
so that mine might be revealed,
and I might accept what I am capable of.
— Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), Mathnawi, I.2682
Rumi Daylight (A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance), Verse 98
(Edited by Camille & Kabir Helminski, 1994, p. 64)
Rumi
182)

Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321)		 The 98th Canto of Dante's Commedia is Canto 31 of Paradiso
where Dante sees the Celestial Rose made from thousands of angels
& St. Bernard guides Dante to see Beatrice seating high on the Throne.
e a quel mezzo, con le penne sparte,
vid' io più di mille angeli festanti,
ciascun distinto di fulgore e d'arte.
Vidi a lor giochi quivi e a lor canti
ridere una bellezza, che letizia
era ne li occhi a tutti li altri santi;
 		I saw, around that midpoint, festive angels—
more than a thousand— with their wings outspread;
each was distinct in splendor and in skill.
And there I saw a loveliness that when
it smiled at the angelic songs and games
made glad the eyes of all the other saints.
Paradiso XXXI.130-133 ( Allen Mandelbaum translation, 1984)
183) Dante in great wonder as he defies gravity
ascending upward in space in the 98th line of Paradiso:
e dissi: "Già contento requievi
di grande ammirazion; ma ora ammiro
com' io trascenda questi corpi levi."
 		content already; after such great wonder,
I rested. But again I wonder how
my body rises past these lighter bodies."
Paradiso I.97-99 ( Allen Mandelbaum translation, 1984, p. 7)
184)
Verse 98 of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz:
Who Will Feed My Cat?
Will need
Someone to feed my cat
When I leave this world,
Though my cat is not ordinary.
She only has three paws:
Fire, air,
Water.
— Hafiz (1320-1389),
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, Verse 98
translated from Persian by Daniel Ladinsky,
Penguin Compass, Middlesex, UK. 1999, p. 145
Hafiz
(1320-1389)
185) Line 98 from the Pearl Poet's Pearl: "The glory thereof to portray"
So al was dubbet on dere asyse
That fryth ther fortwne forth me feres.
The derthe therof for to devyse
Nis no wyy worthé that tonge beres. 		The splendour bright of that display,
The wood where fortune smiled on me,
The glory thereof to portray
No man could render worthily.
— Pearl (c. 1370-1400) Lines 96-99
(Edited by J.J. Anderson, Everyman, London, 1996, p. 5)
(This Pearl translation: by Bill Stanton, another by Vernon Eller)
186)
Line 98 from the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
Fortune of a true knight:
of princes, of feats of arms, of other adventures,
or else until some man had asked him for a true knight
to join with him in jousting, to place themselves in jeopardy,
stake life against life, each to allow the other
to have the better as fortune favoured them.
 — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375-1400) Lines 95-99
( Edited by J.J. Anderson, Everyman, London, 1996, p. 171)
(Translation by Paul Deane; Translation by Marie Borroff)
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
187)
Words for the beauty of the Beloved
in Verse 98 of Songs of Kabir:
The month of March draws near:
  ah, who will unite me to my Lover?
How shall I find words for the beauty of my Beloved?
  For He is merged in all beauty.
His colour is in all the pictures of the world,
  and it bewitches the body and the mind.
Those who know this, know what is this
  unutterable play of the Spring.
Kabir says: "Listen to me, brother:
  there are not many who have found this out."
 — Kabir (1398-1448), Songs of Kabir, Verse XCVIII
(Translated by Rabindranath Tagore,
Macmillan, NY, 1916, p. 144)
India #237 Kabir
(issued Oct. 1, 1952)
188) No peace without Ram in Kabir's Sakhi: Verse 98:
Without Ram, his body
has no peace.
Don't irritate him.
If you even touch him,
he'll die writhing.
— Kabir (1398-1448), The Bijak of Kabir, Sakhi: Verse 98 (p. 100)
(Translated by Linda Hess & Shukdev Singh, North Point Press, San Francisco, 1983)
189) Chapter 98 of Wu Ch'eng-en The Journey to the West:
Only when ape and horse are tamed will shells be cast;
With merit and work perfected, they see the Real
In truth the land of Buddha in the West was quite different from other regions.
What they saw everywhere were gemlike flowers and jasperlike grasses,
aged cypresses and hoary pines. In the regions they passes through, every family
was devoted to good works, and every household would fee the monks.
They met people in cultivation beneath the hills
And saw travelers reciting sutras in the woods.

"No one should open a scroll without fasting and bathing first. Treasure them!
Honor them! Therein will be found the mysteries of gaining immortality and
comprehending the Way, the wondrous formulas for the execution of ten
thousand transformations."

The Vajra Guardians at once caught up with the Tang Monk, crying,
"Scripture seekers, follow us!" The Tang Monk and his companions all
with healthy frames and buoyant bodies, followed the Vajra Guardians
to rise in the air astride the clouds, Truly
Their minds enlightened, they bowed to Buddha;
Merit perfected, they ascended on high.
We do not know how they will pass
on the scriptures after they have
returned to the Land of the East.
Wu Ch'eng-en


Journey to the West
Volume 4
— Wu Ch'eng-en (1500-1582),
The Journey to the West or Hsi-yu chi (1518), Volume 4, Chapter 98
(translated by Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 323, 338)
190)
Lament over his separation from the beloved
in 98th Sonnet (1609) of William Shakespeare:
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
    Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,
    As with your shadow I with these did play.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Sonnets XCVIII, Commentary
Hungary CB3: William Shakespeare
1 forint airmail (issued 10-16-1948)
191) 98th Haiku of Basho's Haiku (1678):
Mourning over the Death of Fuboku's Mother
offering water
may the deceased be consoled
with dried boiled rice
 Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Basho: The Complete Haiku, Haiku 98
(translated by Jane Reichhold, Kodansha International, Tokyo, 2008, p. 44)
192)
"And the round ocean and the living air"
in Line 98 of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey":
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
 William Wordsworth (1770-1850),
"Tintern Abbey" (1798), Lines 89-104

William Wordsworth
by Benjamin R. Haydon
193) "The glorious Sun uprist"
in Line 98 of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.
 — Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798), Lines 97-102
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Penguin Books, London, 1997, p. 150
194)
"With wings that winnow blessing" in Line 98
of Goethe's Faust:
How each the Whole its substance gives,
Each in the other works and lives!
Like heavenly forces rising & descending,
Their golden urns reciprocally lending,
With wings that winnow blessing
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
Faust (1806), Part I, Scene 1, Lines 94-98
(translated by Bayard Taylor, 1870,
Modern Library, New York, 1950, pp. 17-18)
Germany B307: Goethe
(issued 8-28-1949)
195) Line 98 of Byron's "The Prisoner of Chillon":
"His spirit wither'd with their clank"
The other was as pure of mind,
But form'd to combat with his kind;
Strong in his frame, and of a mood
Which 'gainst the world in war had stood,
And perish'd in the foremost rank
With joy:— but not in chains to pine:
His spirit wither'd with their clank,
I saw it silently decline—
And so perchance in sooth did mine:
But yet I forced it on to cheer
Those relics of a home so dear.
Castle of Chillion
Montreux, Switzerland
— Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
"The Prisoner of Chillon" (1816), Lines 92-102
196) "Mercy, Porphyro!"
in Line 98 of John Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes":
He startled her; but soon she knew his face,
And grasp'd his fingers in her palsied hand,
Saying, "Mercy, Porphyro! hie thee from this place;
They are all here to-night, the whole blood-thirsty race!"
 — John Keats (1795-1821),
"The Eve of St. Agnes" (1820), Lines 96-99
The Complete Poems of John Keats, Modern Library, NY, 1994, p. 174
197) "A greater loss with one which was more weak"
in Line 98 of Shelley's "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats":
Another in her wilful grief would break
Her bow and winged reeds, as if to stem
A greater loss with one which was more weak;
And dull the barbed fire against his frozen cheek.
 — Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822),
"Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" (1821), Lines 96-99
198) Chapter 98 of Melville's Moby-Dick (1851):
Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted
from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with
weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to
live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when—
There she blows!— the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight
some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.
Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece,
two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed
with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage— and, foolish as I am,
taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope.
— Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick,
Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up
199)
98th Poem of Emily Dickinson:
One dignity delays for all,
One mitred afternoon.
None can avoid this purple,
None evade this crown.

Coach it insures, and footmen,
Chamber and state and throng;
Bells, also, in the village,
As we ride grand along.

What dignified attendants,
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!

How pomp surpassing ermine,
When simple you and I
Present our meek escutcheon,
And claim the rank to die!
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Poem 98 (circa 1859)
(edited by Thomas H. Johnson, 1955, p. 48)
200) 98th New Poem of Emily Dickinson:
Her reluctances are sweeter
than other ones' avowals.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(Letter 479 to Louise & Frances Norcross, November 1876)
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by William H. Shurr, University of North Carolin Press, 1993, p. 27)
201) "And mossy scabs" in Line 98 of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself (1855):
And that a kelson of the creation is love,
And limitless are leaves, stiff or drooping in the fields,
And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, and heap'd stones,
    elder, mullen and poke-weed.
 — Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Song of Myself, Lines 95-98
A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, Vol. I, Poems, 1855-1856
(Edited by Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White
New York University Press, 1980, p. 6)
202) "Cold earth, the place of graves" in Line 98
of Walt Whitman's Passage to India (1871):
What is this earth to our affections?
    (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
Cold earth, the place of graves.)
Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,
Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
— Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Passage to India Section 5, Lines 97-100
A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, Vol. III, Poems, 1870-1891
(Edited by Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White
New York University Press, 1980, p. 567)
203)
Verse 98 in Tagore's Gitanjali:
    When I give up the helm I know that the time has come for thee
to take it. What there is to do will be instantly done. Vain is this struggle.
    Then take away your hands and silently put up with your defeat, my heart,
and think it your good fortune to sit perfectly still where you are placed.
    These my lamps are blown out at every little puff of wind,
and trying to light them I forget all else again and again.
    But I shall be wise this time and wait in the dark, spreading
my mat on the floor; and whenever it is thy pleasure, my lord,
come silently and take thy seat here.
— Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), Verse 98
Rabindranath Tagore
204) Line 98 of Rilke's Duino Elegies V [1923]
"exploits of their high-flying hearts":
Engel!: Es wäre ein Platz, den wir nicht wissen, dorten,
auf unsäglichem Teppich, zeigten die Liebenden, die's hier
bis zum Können nie bringen, ihre kühnen
hohen Figuren des Herzschwungs,
ihre Türme aus Lust, ihre
längst, wo Boden nie war, nur an einander
lehnenden Leitern, bebend, - und könntens,
 		Angel!: If there were a place that we didn't know of, and there,
on some unsayable carpet, lovers displayed
what they never could bring to mastery here— the bold
exploits of their high-flying hearts,
their towers of pleasure, their ladders
that have long since been standing where there was no ground, leaning
just on each other, trembling— and could master all this,
— Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926),
Duino Elegies, V.95-101
(translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Random House, New York, pp. 178-181)
(Other translations: Edward Snow; Robert Hunter)
205)
98th Page of A.E.'s Song and Its Fountains (1932)
It is, I sometimes think, in this world, not in another, that
revelation will come and the purpose of incarnation be
realized; and to come to our true wisdom we must thine of
Heaven & Hell as equally dragons in the path, both forms
of the Maya which besets us and blinds the spiritual sight.
— A.E. aka George William Russell (1867-1935)
Larson Publications, Burdett, NY, 1991, Ch. 12, p. 98
Photo Source: A.E. (wikipedia.org)
George W. Russell
206) 98th Page lines in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, (14 samples):
a hundred of manhood and a wimmering of weibes. Big went (98.1)
the bang: then wildewide was quiet: a report: silence: last Fama (98.2)
put it under ether. The noase or the loal had dreven him blem, (98.3)
blem, stun blem. Sparks flew. He had fled again (open shun- (98.4)
or the alms of a para's pence. Wires hummed. Peacefully general (98.14)
astonishment assisted by regrettitude had put a term till his exis- (98.15)
tence: he saw the family saggarth, resigned, put off his remain- (98.16)
ders, was recalled and scrapheaped by the Maker. Chirpings (98.17)
feel of demifrish water. Mush spread. On Umbrella Street where (98.24)
he did drinks from a pumps a kind of workman, Mr Whitlock, (98.25)
gave him a piece of wood. What words of power were made fas (98.26)
with a kick behind. Toties testies quoties questies. The war is (98.34)
in words and the wood is the world. Maply me, willowy we, (98.35)
hickory he and yew yourselves. Howforhim chirrupeth evereach- (98.36)
— James Joyce (1882-1941), Finnegans Wake, (1939), p. 98
207) Sonnet 98 in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Collected Sonnets (1941)
Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.
No man holds mortgage on it; it is your own;
To give, to sell at auction, to destroy.
When you are blind to moonlight on the bed,
When you are deaf to gravel on the pane,
Shall quavering caution from this house instead
Cluck forth at summer mischief in the lane?
All that delightful youth forbears to spend
Molestful age inherits, and the ground
Will have us; therefore, while we're young, my friend—
The Latin's vulgar, but the advice is sound.
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here
For age to invest in compromise and fear.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), Sonnet 98
Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Harper & Brothers, NY, 1941, p. 68
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)
208) "The maker of a thing yet to be made" in Line 98
of Wallace Stevens's The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937):

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar

Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched

Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made;

The color like a thought that grows
Out of a mood, the tragic robe

Of the actor, half his gesture, half
His speech, the dress of his meaning, silk

Sodden with his melancholy words,
The weather of his stage, himself.

 — Wallace Stevens (1879-1955),
The Man with the Blue Guitar, Lines 93-104 (Section IX)
Collected Poetry and Prose, Library of America, NY, 1997, p. 138
209) Page 98 in William Carlos Williams' Paterson (1958)
is from a 50-page poem titled "The Library":
He turns: over his right shoulder
a vague outline, speaking
Gently! Gently!
as in all things an opposite
that awakes
the fury, conceiving
knowledge
by way of despair that has
noplace
to lay its glossy head—
Save only
not alone!
Never, if possible
alone! to escape the accepted
chopping block
and a square hat !...
The province of the poem is the world.
When the sun rises, it rises in the poem
and when it sets darkness comes down
and the poem is dark.
— William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Paterson (1958)
Edited by Christopher MacGowan
New Directions, NY, 1992, p. 97
(Published in Book III, Section 1, 1949)
210) Sonnet 98 in Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets (1960)
And this word, this paper the thousand hands
of a single hand have written on, does not remain
inside you, it is no good for dreaming.
It falls to the earth; there it continues.

No matter that the light, or praise,
spilled over the rim of the cup,
if they were a willful shimmer in the wine,
if your mouth were stained purple as amaranth.

This word: it no longer wants the slow-spoken syllable,
what thar reef brings, and brings back,
from my memories, the churned foam:

it wants nothing but to write your name.
And even though my brooding love silences it
now, later the springtime will pronounce it.
Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973)
Love Sonnet XCVIII, 100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor (Spanish)
Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1960 (trans. Stephen Tapscott, 1986, p. 207)
211)
Chapter 98 in Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels (1965):
The rivers of America and all the trees on all those shores and all the leaves
on all those trees and all the green worlds in all those leaves and all the
chlorofic molecules in all those green worlds and all the atoms in all those
molecules, and all the infinite universes within all those atoms, and all our
hearts and all our tissue and all our thoughts and all our brain cells and all
the molecules and atoms in every cell, and all the infinite universes in every
thought-bubbles and balloons— and all the starlights dancing on all
the wavelets of rivers without end and everywhere in the world.
 Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Desolation Angels: A Novel,
Riverhead Books, NY, 1995, Ch. 98, p. 98 (Web: 1, 2)
212)
Poem 98 of The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch:
is "To Marina"—
So many convolutions and not enough simplicity!
When I had you to write to it
Was different. The quiet dry Z
Leaped up to the front of the alphabet.
You sit, stilling your spoons
With one hand; you move them with the other.
Radio says, "God is a postmaster."...
Let's take a walk
Into the world
Where if our shoes get white
With snow, is it snow, Marina,
Is it snow or light?
Let's take a walk...
When it was the Renaissance!
Filtered through my nerves and weakness
Of nineteen fifty-four or fifty-three,
When I had you to write to, when I could see you
And it could change.
—Kenneth Koch, (1925-2002)
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006, pp. 358-367
(Note: Koch was my Freshman English Professor at Columbia, 1959-60; He wasn't published then,but became a well known poet of the N.Y. School. He taught children to write poetry in NYC; inspired my CPITS teaching)




Kenneth Koch
(1925-2002)
213) Poem 98 in Tomas Tranströmer's The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems (2006)
(There are 179 poems in this edition; Poem 98 is "The Crossing-Place"
The Crossing Place
Ice-wind in my eyes and the suns dance
in the kaleidoscope of tears as I cross
the street that's followed me so long, the street
where Greenland-summer shines from puddles.

Around me the whole strength of the street swarms,
power that remembers nothing, wants nothing.
For a thousand years, in the earth deep
under traffic the unborn forest quietly waits.

I get the idea that the street can see me.
Its sight is so dim the sun itself
is a grey ball in black space.
But right now I am shining! The street sees me.
— Tomas Tranströmer
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
translated by Robin Fulton,
New Directions Publishing, NY, 2006, p. 144
("Street Crossing" translated by Robet Bly)
Tomas Tranströmer
(1931-2015)
Nobel Prize 2011
214) There are 207 poems in Robert Creeley's Selected Poems, 1945-2005 (2008)
Poem #98 is "Do You Think..."—

Do you think that if
you once do what you want
to do you will want not to do it.

Do you think that if
there's an apple on the table
and somebody eats it, it
won't be there anymore.

Do you think that if
two people are in love with one another,
one or the other has got to be
less in love than the other at
some point in the otherwise happy relationship.

Do you think that if
you once take a breath, you're by
that committed to taking the next one
and so on until the very process of
breathing's an endlessly expanding need
almost of its own necessity foreever.

Do you think that if
no one knows then whatever
it is, no one will know and
that will be the ase, like
they say, for an indefinite
period of time if such time
can have a qualification of such time.

Do you know anyone,
really. Have you been, really,
much alone. Are you lonely,
now, for example. Does anything
really matter to yu, really, or
has anything mattered. Does each
thing tend to be there, and then not
to be there, just as if that were it.

Do you think that if
I said, I love you, or anyone
said it, or you did. Do you
think that if you had all
such decisions to make and could
make them. Do you think that
if you did. That you really
would have to think it all into
reality, that world, each time, new.
Robert Creeley
— Robert Creeley (1926-2005), Selected Poems, 1945-2005
    University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008, pp. 141-142 (web)
215) "first crab, iridescent in the seaweed" in Line 98 of Mary Oliver's
poem "Evening Star":

first road to the ocean,
first smell of the ocean
first white heron
first abalone,
first crab, iridescent in the seaweed
first mountain
first fern

— Mary Oliver (1935-2019), "Evening Star", lines 94-100
The Leaf and the Cloud, Da Capo Press, 2000, p. 51

216) There are 126 poems in Robert Bly's Selected Poems (1986)
Poem #98 is "Snowbanks North of the House"—
Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house...
Thoughts that go so far.
The boy gets out of high school and reads no more books;
the son stops calling home.
The mother puts down her rolling pin and makes no more bread.
And the wife looks at her husband one night at a party
    and loves him no more.
The energy leaves the wine, and the minister falls leaving the church.
It will not come closer—
the one inside moves back, and the hands touch nothing,
    and are safe.

And the father grieves for his son, and will not leave the
    room where the coffin stands;
he turns away from his wife, and she sleeps alone.

And the sea lifts and falls all night; the moon goes on
    through the unattached heavens alone.
And the toe of the shoe pivots in the dust...
The man in the black coat turns, and goes back down the hill.
No one knows why he came, or why he turned away, and
    did not climb the hill.
— Robert Bly
(born 12-23-1926)
Selected Poems,
Harper & Row,
N.Y., 1986 (p. 148)
(Web; Reading
poem on PBS)
(2008 Stanford
Workshops, Reading)
217) There are 229 poems in Kay Ryan's
The Best of It (2010), 98th poem—
APOGEE
At high speeds
we know
when an orbit
starts to go
backwards:
on fair rides
like the Hammer
or in airplane disasters,
our brains are
plastered to
one wall of the skull
or another;
we comprehend reverse
through the
sudden compression
of matter.
In a way it's worse
when the turn's wider—
say a boat on a soft tide
in mild water—
we hardly knew
that we were floating out.
The sense of turning back
seems like our fault.

Kay Ryan,
U.S. Poet Laureate
2008-2010
— Kay Ryan (born 9-21-1945),
    The Best of It (New & Selected Poems),
    Grove Press, NY, 2010, p. 118
"Apogee" appeared first in
Elephant Rocks(1996), p. 44
(2010 Stanford Workshops)
218)
There are 170 aphorisms in James Richardson's poem
"Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphorisms and
Ten-Second Essays" in By the Numbers (2010)
98th aphorism
That our feelings flicker so obviously in our faces
must mean Nature thought it was more important
that everyone be able to read them than that
individuals be able to hide them. Maybe it tells
us, too, that the most dangerous faces are the
ones behind which there is no feeling at all.
— James Richardson (born 1950),
    By the Numbers, Copper Canyon Press,
    Port Townsend, WA, 2010, p. 43; (Web: 1, 2, 3)
James Richardson
219)
There are 173 poems in Jane Hirshfield's
Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994)
(43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women)
98th poem is by Mirabai (1498-1565),
"Why Mira Can't Come Back To Her Old House"—
The colors of the Dark One have penetrated Mira's body;
all the other colors washed out.
Making love with the Dark One and eating little,
those are my pearls and my carnelians.
Meditation beads and the forehead streak,
those are my scarves and my rings.
That's enough feminine wiles for me.
My teacher taught me this.
Approve me or disapprove me:
I praise the Mountain Energy night and day.
I take the path that ecstatic human beings
have taken for centuries.
I don't steal money, I don't hit anyone.
What will you charge me with?
I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb on a jackass?
Try to be serious.
(translated by Robert Bly)

Jane Hirshfield
— Jane Hirshfield (born 2-24-1953),
    Editor of Women in Praise of the Sacred
    (43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women)
    HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994, p. 139 (Web)

98 in Numerology
220) Numerology: words whose letters add up to 98

Dragon Transformation = (491765) + (291516669412965) = 32 + 66 = 98

Evergreen Medicine = (545979555) + (45493955) = 54 + 44 = 98

Firefly Reflection = (6995637) + (9563532965) = 45 + 53 = 98

Insight Nourishment = (9519782) + (56399184552) = 41 + 57 = 98

Knight Enlightenment = (259782) + (5539782554552) = 33 + 65 = 98

Lightning Wanderer = (545979555) + (51545959) = 55 + 43 = 98

Mirror Direction = (499969) + (499532965) = 46 +52 = 98

Philosophy Journey = (7893616787) + (1639557) = 62 +36 = 98

Spinning Strawberry = (17955957) + (1291525997) = 48 + 50 = 98

Trinity Marrage = (2995927) + (41999175) = 53 + 45 = 98

These web pages on the number 98 are composed
for my Cornell Professor Harold A. Scheraga's
98th birthday on October 18, 2019

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