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What was the book? AND number stuff?


What was the book that Elvis (Michael Shannon) showed to Jerry (Alex Pettyfer)
telling him that it was a good book & that he should read it? Could not make out the title. Also curious about Elvis (Michael Shannon) assigning a number to Jerry.

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Elvis was introduced to all this nutty spiritualism by his wacky hairdresser Larry Geller in the mid-60s. Today I guess it would be called New Age. Elvis was obsessed with his purpose in life and the reason he was chosen to be so successful. You know "why me, why me." I don't know the title of the book but it was one on numerology, where of course Elvis would be a 9 (the highest level) because his birthday was Jan. 8th (1 + 8).

No! That's not true at all, Elvis takes 50% of everything I earn!
Col. Tom Parker

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Thanks Kap! Wonder if it could've been a copy of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, one of Elvis’ favorite books. I just can't get a good enough quality screen shot of it. Thanks for the numerology info. I mean, thank you, thank you very much!

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That was an excellent bit of info. I thought I knew a lot about Elvis, but I'd never heard that before.

"I'm playing a role, sir. What are you doing?"

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