Astral Codex Ten

Sarah

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Sarah

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Sarah is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 17, 2022 and March 25, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “he lived happily ever after, along with his wife Sarah”; “Abraham’s wife Sarah was 75 and doubted she could have biological children”; “people in the sample named John, Michael, Mary, and Sarah”. It most often appears alongside Google, San Francisco, Michael.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: February 17, 2022
  • Last seen: March 25, 2025

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them
February 17, 2022 · Original source
And so the student believed in this god he had designed as hard as he could. And he lived happily ever after, along with his wife Sarah and his son Isaac.
Half An Hour Before Dawn In San Francisco
March 20, 2023 · Original source
The light from the lurid sea - okay, the lurid creek channel - is the reflection of a billboard. Something something SF. Mirrored in the water, “SF” looks like “86”. The number eighty-six appears only once in the Torah; it was Abraham’s age when his son Ishmael was born. Abraham was childless, and tried to name his servant Eliezer his heir. God disagreed - he must bear a son. Abraham’s wife Sarah was 75 and doubted she could have biological children, so she told Abraham to sleep with her servant Hagar. Abraham and Hagar had a son, and they called his name Ishmael. Then an angel descended, and prophesied this was not the destined child, not how things were supposed to go. “He will be a wild donkey of a man,” said the angel. “His hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” So the esoteric meaning of 86 is “to produce an heir by unnatural means and have it go badly for everyone, because you rejected Eliezer”. He who has ears to hear, let - no, sorry, that’s overcomplicating things, S+F is literally just sof, Hebrew for “end”.
In The Long Run, We're All Dad
December 22, 2023 · Original source
People expressed a strong preference for common older names like John and Mary. Does this contradict the finding above that people with very common names were least happy? Not necessarily - the common names on the question above included all common names (the #1 most common name for boys born last year is “Liam”), so maybe people like common older names in particular? But I looked at people in the sample named John, Michael, Mary, and Sarah, and they didn’t differ much from the overall common names category. So people may think they would like names like these, but actual Johns and Marys wish they were named something a little more unusual.
Meetups Everywhere Spring 2025: Times & Places
March 25, 2025 · Original source
Contact: Sarah Contact Info: throwaway3454554[a t]yahoo[period]com Time: Sunday, April 06th, 4:00 PM Location: Cafe Diem- 229 Main St, Ames, IA 50010. I will have a sign with ACX meet up on it. Likely sitting near the window towards the front of the store Coordinates: https://plus.codes/86J829GP+3M Notes: RVSP NOT required but useful. First time doing this.
Inline links: https://plus.codes/86J829GP+3M
Contact: Sarah W. Contact Info: seraphedelweiss[a t]proton[period]me Time: Sunday, April 13th, 12:00 PM Location: University at Buffalo South Campus - The quad between the Abbot Library and continuing dental education building. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87J3X53J+JR3
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87J3X53J+JR3