That night, Walter begins reading the book. While she waits for him, Agatha visits a nearby book store and buys a book, The Number 23: A Novel of Obsession by Topsy Kretts, which she gives to Walter. At a bookstore, Agatha begins looking at a book called "The Number 23" written by Topsy Kretts. Time - Phrase; 00:10:44 HMM, AND YET LIFE GOES ON. Plot. The author’s name is … Walter starts becoming obsessed with the 23 enigma, the idea that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23. It's a novel, or a memoir or something, written by a man named Topsy Kretts (get it?). Find all lines from this movie. Walter quickly becomes engrossed in the book, written from a first-hand perspective about a detective named Fingerling (played by … On his birthday he was running late to meet his wife, Agatha, due to an emergency call from work, where he lost a dog after it had bit him. The plot involves an obsession with the 23 enigma, which is the idea that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, or to some number connected to 23.. Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer married to Agatha; they have a son, Robin. When Agatha and Walter met, she had already purchased a present for him – a book called “The Number 23”, by Topsy Kretts. He claims he is innocent and if he did write a book, he would not have used the stupid name “Top Secrets.” Walter spoke the name so this is how he heard it, but on the book the author's name is spelled “Topsy Kretts.” A NOVEL OF OBSESSION BY TOPSY KRETTS, The Number 23 quotes. Walter visits the book store and learns the book is self published and there is no other works or further information on Topsy Kretts. It's called The Number 23, and it's by an unknown author named Topsy Kretts. And the way it looks in the movie, with its spare, red cover reminded me of Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law (or, Jung’s The Red Book, take your pick). —Numbers 32: 23 Part mystery and part thriller, The Number 23 stars Jim Carrey as an everyman who reads an obscure, mysterious book that sounds eerily similar to his own childhood and adolescence. A NOVEL OF OBSESSION BY TOPSY KRETTS quotes › The Number 23. After receiving an obscure book titled The Number 23 from his wife (Virginia Madsen) for his birthday, Walter Sparrow (Carrey) becomes increasing convinced that the book--written by a “Topsy Kretts”--is based on him. Flinch denies he killed Laura, says he knows nothing about the book or the number 23 either. Advanced search. Movie quotes. The book is published under the pseudonym by a doctor (a wisely uncredited Bud Cort) who himself goes mad as a result of the number 23 and who is confronted by Walter earlier in the film as the prime suspect to be Topsy Kretts, because his address is printed behind a page of the book. The Number 23 (2007) 00:10:49 A NOVEL OF OBSESSION BY TOPSY KRETTS."

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