Trilogies

[poliphilo]

What is it about trilogies?

Why does it feel awkward and unsatisfactory to have two books in a series, but supremely right to have three?

I've written two Purchas novels now, but I'm not going to be satisfied until I've finished the third.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It probably does. For whatever reason, and I'm sure it goes way, way back, the idea that the number three is auspicious is deeply embedded in the western psyche.