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Luminous Thor's Hammer
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1359 Location: Facility J
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:48 am Post subject: Facility J [Profile Change] - Ground hog love |
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The groundhog on the mountain did not run
But fatly scuttled into the splayed fern
And faced me, back to a ledge of dirt, to rattle
Her sallow rodent teeth like castanets
Against my leaning down, would not exchange
For that wary clatter sound or gesture
Of love : claws braced, at bay, my currency not hers.
Such meetings never occur in marchen
Where love-met groundhogs love one in return,
Where straight talk is the rule, whether warm or hostile,
Which no gruff animal misinterprets.
From what grace am I fallen. Tongues are strange,
Signs say nothing. The falcon who spoke clear
To Canacee cries gibberish to coarsened ears.
147 164 151 156 153 153 167 144 161 164 163 153 150 152 143 144 154 171 152 155 141 161 157 145
Edit: If this is octal, it translates to: gtinkkwdqtskhjcdlyjmaqoe _________________ You made a wise choice, Bree.
There's no place like home.
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Luminous Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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blahblablee wrote: | http://www.poems-and-poetry.com/sylvia-plath/incommunicado-poem.html |
Brought this over from the other thread _________________ You made a wise choice, Bree.
There's no place like home.
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Loki Lonely Fan
Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 143 Location: Right behind you...
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Groundhogs... right...
I would start counting letters to see if it's a cipher of some sort... but I'm feeling singularly unmotivated to do pretty much anything right now... (including real-world stuff) _________________ A trickster god with a modern twist.
Everything is not as it first appears.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost. -- Aleister Crowley |
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blahblablee Lonely Fan
Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 237 Location: FacilityJ
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:31 am Post subject: |
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i'll bring this over
Quote: | Working on numbers this is what i got so far
Code: | 147 164 151 156 153 153 167 144 161 164 163 153 150 152 143 144 154 171 152 155 141 161 157 145 |
Text ----> dec/char
Code: | 49 52 55 32 49 54 52 32 49 53 49 32 49 53 54 32 49 53 51 32 49 53 51 32 49 54 55 32 49 52 52 32 49 54 49 32 49 54 52 32 49 54 51 32 49 53 51 32 49 53 48 32 49 53 50 32 49 52 51 32 49 52 52 32 49 53 52 32 49 55 49 32 49 53 50 32 49 53 53 32 49 52 49 32 49 54 49 32 49 53 55 32 49 52 53 |
Hex ----> Text
Code: | IRU2ITR2ISI2IST2ISQ2ISQ2ITU2IRR2ITI2ITR2ITQ2ISQ2ISH2ISP2IRQ2IRR2ISR2IUI2ISP2ISS2IRI2ITI2ISU2IRS |
Seems too patterned to be a coincidence |
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TOSG Devoted Fan
Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 651
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Found something:
Vigenere-decrypting the poem with Luminous' octal translation of the numbers gives: "Now they know" as the first few letters.
EDIT: Whoops! There's more to the message:
"Now they know where to find me"
Last edited by TOSG on Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:50 am; edited 2 times in total |
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blahblablee Lonely Fan
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: |
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WOAH nice catch TOSG _________________ HHE is the laugh of the future |
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TOSG Devoted Fan
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:51 am Post subject: |
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So:
Who is this message directed to?
Where DO we find him?
Is there more to this puzzle? |
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ignatzmouse Enthusiastic Fan
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 305 Location: Coconino County, AZ
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well, there is the poem Walter chose (I wouldn't have picked him as a Plath man, people are full of surprises). Written in 1958, Plath had been married to Hughes for 2 years (and in this poem it shows, which is unexpected) and was teaching at Smith. I had to look up the reference to Canacee, which is from Chaucer's Squire's tale: Canace wore a ring with the gifts of healing and speaking with birds, which she used to cure a wounded falcon. I guess the message is that Walter is a grumpy old misanthrope.
Hmm, not sure this is going to get us anywhere, perhaps we're waiting for YouTube to finish processing his next video... _________________ Facility J: Will the last disgruntled employee to leave please destroy The Cure? |
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Luminous Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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TOSG wrote: | So:
Who is this message directed to?
Where DO we find him?
Is there more to this puzzle? |
We do know where to find him . . . Princeton. There was a return address on the package I received. Wonder if that's what he means? _________________ You made a wise choice, Bree.
There's no place like home.
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TOSG Devoted Fan
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Luminous wrote: | TOSG wrote: | So:
Who is this message directed to?
Where DO we find him?
Is there more to this puzzle? |
We do know where to find him . . . Princeton. There was a return address on the package I received. Wonder if that's what he means? |
Good point - I had forgotten about the return address.
If he's referring to that address, then it seems that he wants to be found. |
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Luminous Thor's Hammer
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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TOSG wrote: | Luminous wrote: | TOSG wrote: | So:
Who is this message directed to?
Where DO we find him?
Is there more to this puzzle? |
We do know where to find him . . . Princeton. There was a return address on the package I received. Wonder if that's what he means? |
Good point - I had forgotten about the return address.
If he's referring to that address, then it seems that he wants to be found. |
That's kind of what I thought when I saw it. Else why a street address instead of a PO Box? Or why a return address at all?
Musique said she would drive by and do a photo shoot. _________________ You made a wise choice, Bree.
There's no place like home.
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chershaytoute Moderator
Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 1877 Location: Oregon with an ocean view...across the neighbors' cow pasture, wow!
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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ignatzmouse wrote: | Well, there is the poem Walter chose (I wouldn't have picked him as a Plath man, people are full of surprises). Written in 1958, Plath had been married to Hughes for 2 years (and in this poem it shows, which is unexpected) and was teaching at Smith. I had to look up the reference to Canacee, which is from Chaucer's Squire's tale: Canace wore a ring with the gifts of healing and speaking with birds, which she used to cure a wounded falcon. I guess the message is that Walter is a grumpy old misanthrope.
Hmm, not sure this is going to get us anywhere, perhaps we're waiting for YouTube to finish processing his next video... |
It probably doesn't mean anything in the scheme of things, but...
Quote: | From what grace am I fallen. Tongues are strange,
Signs say nothing. The falcon who spoke clear
To Canacee cries gibberish to coarsened ears. |
Walter left in less than the good graces of his former employers. I was wondering if he had had the cure.
Maybe it is something aimed at just a subset of men...and it won't work for him? "Tongues are strange, Signs say nothing." One on whom the cure works allows the falcon to speak clear (to Canacee)?
<back to my corner I go> _________________ Diane, or cher, or even chershaytoute, but "Hey, you!" works, too...
WWggD - let's make the Breeniverse a better place to live...
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ignatzmouse Enthusiastic Fan
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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chershaytoute wrote: |
Quote: | From what grace am I fallen. Tongues are strange,
Signs say nothing. The falcon who spoke clear
To Canacee cries gibberish to coarsened ears. |
Walter left in less than the good graces of his former employers. I was wondering if he had had the cure.
Maybe it is something aimed at just a subset of men...and it won't work for him? "Tongues are strange, Signs say nothing." One on whom the cure works allows the falcon to speak clear (to Canacee)?
<back to my corner I go> |
I wonder if Walter's citation of Plath's citation of Milton is deliberate: does Walter feel he was cast out after a war in heaven?
And there is the reference to a ring that cures. Hmm, plasmid rings anyone? "The bacteria that didn't get a plasmid die. The bacteria that did get a plasmid survive." _________________ Facility J: Will the last disgruntled employee to leave please destroy The Cure? |
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chershaytoute Moderator
Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 1877 Location: Oregon with an ocean view...across the neighbors' cow pasture, wow!
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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That's a good point, Mouse. I can follow once you mention the plasmid ring, but that way beyond my level of biology... This is why I'm sitting in the corner watching, for the most part, of course... _________________ Diane, or cher, or even chershaytoute, but "Hey, you!" works, too...
WWggD - let's make the Breeniverse a better place to live...
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ShardinsKitten Devoted Fan
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, you guys did this one fast, nice work.
Did someone send Walter a message with that? He'd tell us if we weren't looking deep enough. |
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