a quality control inspector is instructed to inspect the widgets that come off his company's assembly line. his instructions are to start with the 3rd widget and inspect every 8th widget after that. so he will inspect widget 3, 11, 19, 27

Read the excerpt from gilgamesh: a new english version.gilgamesh backed away. he said,"how dreadful humbaba's face has become! it is changing into a thousand nightmarefaces, more horrible than i can bear.i feel haunted. i am too afraid to go on." §enkidu answered, "why, dear friend,do you speak like a coward? what you just saidis unworthy of you. it grieves my heartwe must not hesitate or retreat."