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poeticexplosion
Re: Stagnation
Worker wrote:
Quote:
Stagnation 245, 3, 10

All the resources I've found call this pattern "Standstill", and only add "Stagnation" as a parenthetical. The fact that the hint still used "Stagnation" may point in the direction of a specific text/translation/interpretation, or may mean the word is more than a reference to a pattern.

Or it may mean nothing.


Along those same lines, Youthful Folly is not the normal rendering either from what little research I've done.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:48 pm
Worker
Stagnation
Quote:
Stagnation 245, 3, 10

All the resources I've found call this pattern "Standstill", and only add "Stagnation" as a parenthetical. The fact that the hint still used "Stagnation" may point in the direction of a specific text/translation/interpretation, or may mean the word is more than a reference to a pattern.

Or it may mean nothing.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:44 pm
blessedSophia
Chicago gets left out too. Sad

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:37 pm
Centipede
Based on the (admittedly few) args I've played, New York gets very little love.

Having been on hiatus for a while, this looks fun.

P.S.: I'm allergic to cats, will that matter?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:33 pm
aliendial
Yeah, no ads in the DC area either...

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:27 pm
bagsbee
Ooooh package swag! Yummy!

No love for the Big Apple?

/me pokes rose

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:21 pm
notgordian
Not sure if this warrants mentioning since it's fairly straightforward, but B.A. ST Feline is probably a reference to Bast the Egyptian cat-goddess. Hence, the affinity with cats.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:16 pm
chixor1
Do we have a list of all the names that the letters were addressed to?
Maybe listing them can lead us somewhere?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:00 pm
LouMac
OK, here is the description of the total contents of my package:

- The BA St. Feline coin (previously shown)
- The Providence Craigslist Missed Connections printout from April 1 (previously shown)
- The "You Are Providence" note (previously shown)
- A "BSEEINGU.COM" postcard with phone number.
- A handwritten note addressed to me. Transcribed below.

Quote:
Louis,
I've spent the past few
nights in a city of destruction.
The buildings are burning, the
mad are ruling the streets.
Those that don't make the slow
march out of the city succomb to
the madness. It's a dangerous
place, a dark place. Men are
patrolling the streets, baseball
bats in hand, keeping the
order, beating each other.
You are there. You should
join the parade of the sane.
It may be a march into the
unknown, but it beats madness.
Find them and bring along any
other that you can.

Seeing you,
B


- Pages torn out of various (HP Lovecraft?) books. Four items to note on these pages:
1) "Youthful Folly 175, 5, 3" is written in red cursive on p295 of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
2) The word "warnings" is circled in red on p5 of "At the Mountains of Madness"
3) The heading "MONSTERS OF THE SEA" is circled in red on p262 of "Monsters of the Sea"
4) The word "Hacking" is circled in red on p46 of the Fall 2006 issue of 2600 Magazine.

I've scanned all of the documents and you can find them here: http://lou2.net/bseeingu/

EDIT: Also, photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loumac/sets/72157600087062326/

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:57 pm
Insane24Seven
No ads for Middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:48 pm
chixor1
Ohhh Im in Louisville!

*jumps up and down*

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:46 pm
Phaedra
Wikified! Thanks, jamesi. Smile

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:37 pm
thebruce
I was just about to post all mournful about not getting a package, not finding a google link on craigslist, when celina posted the non-google link for Kitchener. If I get a package this week (expecting late/slow deliveries), I'll be all squeee! Very Happy

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:24 pm
catherwood-offline
I Ching themes
addlepated wrote:
The words written in red on different pages - like Conflict, Peace, Difficulty at the beginning, etc. - are from the I Ching.

Good link, but I still like seeing a straight list of the 64 themes:
Code:
  1  =1. Heaven, The Creative
  2  =2. Earth
  3  =3. Difficulty
  4  =4. Darkness
  5  =5. Waiting
  6  =6. Contention
  7  =7. The Army
  8  =8. Accord
  9  =9. Small Nurturance
 10  =10. Treading
 11  =11. T'ai - Peace, Tranquility
 12  =12. Obstruction
 13  =13. Sameness with Others'
 14  =14. Great Possession
 15  =15. Modesty
 16  =16. Joy (Happiness)
 17  =17. Following
 18  =18. Degeneration
 19  =19. Overseeing
 20  =20. Observing
 21  =21. Biting Through
 22  =22. Adornment
 23  =23. Stripping
 24  =24. Return
 25  =25. No Error
 26  =26. Great Accumulation
 27  =27. Jaws
 28  =28. Great Excess
 29  =29. Double Water
 30  =30. Fire
 31  =31. Sensing
 32  =32. Perseverance
 33  =33. Inaccessibility
 34  =34. Great Power
 35  =35. Advance
 36  =36. Concealment of Illumination
 37  =37. Members of a Family
 38  =38. Disparity
 39  =39. Halting
 40  =40. Dissolution
 41  =41. Reduction
 42  =42. Increase
 43  =43. Parting
 44  =44. Meeting
 45  =45. Gathering
 46  =46. Rising
 47  =47. Exhaustion
 48  =48. The Well
 49  =49. Change
 50  =50. The Cauldron
 51  =51. Thunder
 52  =52. Mountains
 53  =53. Gradualness
 54  =54. Making a Young Girl Marry
 55  =55. Abundance
 56  =56. Transience
 57  =57. Wind
 58  =58. Joy (Harmony)
 59  =59. Disintegration
 60  =60. Regulation
 61  =61. Truthfulness Within
 62  =62. Excessive Smallness
 63  =63. Settled
 64  =64. Not Yet Settled, Before Completion

pulled from the random generator under http://deoxy.org/time/d2k/ching/icalc.htm

(i'll clean up the duplicate numbers later)

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:20 pm
Rolerbe
Re: What do we know so far?
Brevity is the soul of wit, and all that jazz...
Phaedra wrote:

I'm wondering if the first number in each clue that lists three is a page number (see above -- coincidence?) and the other two are word numbers?

Depending on whether you count "upper-earth" as one word or two, I get either "not" or "be," which doesn't help much, and "the" or "dream," the latter of which seems more promising...


In case anyone needs more detail of this type of cipher: If its a book cipher, then the first is page number, second is either paragraph or line number, third is word number. An alternative is page number, word number, letter number, then assemble the letters.

I don't have the texts at hand, but don't think its the last because of
Quote:
SpaceBass
p. 395 Difficulty at the Beginning 335, 20, 25

there aren't too many words have 25 letters.

Also probably not paragraph number for the second because of
Quote:
Phaedra
p. 335 Conflict 95, 35, 11

not many will have 35 paragraphs on a page. So would check first page/line/word.
[edit] or per Celina's spec, page/sentence#/word# as yet another alternative.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:51 pm
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