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[petunia]

How does that make Saul not a king?

Ethan still seems hung up on the Old Testament, if not Genesis specificially... plague, pestilence, Eden... and he's still talking about the Djinn. Have they come up elsewhere? Can't remember.

[Typoxic]

There was some speculation because of AC and the summoning implications of overlapping the shapes in the MSGs. The djinn stuff is a little over my head, honestly, at least as it relates to 0701.

[Sylvia]

I've been going over some of the words from Ethan's emails and last blog post.

From wikipedia Lapsang souchong

[Rogi Ocnorb]

[Sylvia]

yea that's what it seems to be. I was just hoping that Eden land and out of whack were referring to Land of Confusion or the Land of Nod east of Eden. I'm just trying so hard to get somewhere with this. Right now I'm even looking at at the Endless again Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, the twins Desire and Despair and finally Delirium which is how I feel right now.

By the way if anyone is interested you can read the whole book "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman at Harper Collins Publishers right now for free.

[Sylvia]

Ethan's reply

[mortality]

That makes the Borges connection sound like a clue for atmosphere/meta rather than explicit help for the puzzles.

Dunno, I'm out of ideas.

[Sylvia]

Been working on the image for msg5. I can't get the images to combine into anything that looks right but I tried this. the inside letters can be arranged to spell B-Line and if connected they give a pentagram. I know a pentagram can be drawn starting and ending with any of the letters but these are the only ones that make sense, to me anyways.

As for the studio part. It just sounded good since I used B with the inside letters to arrive at B-Line. As for the GIF, I don't know. Mainly, I added Studio A Gif so I don't forget it. However, if there turns out to be a Studio A some where around the B 6th Ave. Express from Bedford Park Boulevard to Brighton Beach in New York then if might be worth taking a closer look.

Another interesting tidbit about B-Line is from the album Fear of Fours by Lamb.

If nothing else, maybe this will help you guys see something I don't know or that I am over looking. I'll send it off to Ethan and see what he thinks.

[mortality]

B Line makes me think of this: http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/bline.htm

Connects the Bronx to Brooklyn via Manhattan, although the stations for the 4, 5, and 6 lines are all closer. There are a couple different "A" Studios in Manhattan.

It could also be "fig a" as in Figure A.

"Studio a gif" can also spell "audio gifts."

[Sylvia]

email from Ethan

[mortality]

Ethan recently posted about "audits" on his blog.

"Audit" and "audits" are both anagram possibilities from the letters outside the MSG5 pentagon.

Philly's Puzzle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Tampa

Rivergate Towers
SkyPoint Condominiums
SunTrust Financial Center

link to map

If light the way had something to do with a fourth building to complete the square, then it'd probably be at the intersection of Madison, Marion, Morgan, and Twigg. There's an Episcopal church on the lot. Could that have something to do with "light the way"?

Now what do far south, far east, 119, and 153 have to do with them?

ETA: if you use google earth, there's a picture called "lights on UT" taken west of Rivergate Towers. 119 feet east puts you at the outer circle around a strange statue. 153 feet south is a cluster of trees.

Sent the new stuff to Jade. Think it might be a good idea to ask Slider if Philly had anything to do with the central business district of Tampa or the university? Or if Philly every fiddled with Google Earth?

Sylvia pointed out that south and east of SunTrust is the Forum where the Tampa Lightning play.

[Sylvia]

A few more things I want to point out. But first, thank God for Ethan and his metaphors. I'm still laughing and that's what keeps me from going insane. But it's funny, how he keeps asking, How do we stay sane? I keep wanting to reply with, Sane, WTH is that? Oh I think remember, that's something I misplaced a long time ago. Back when I stopped being a kid. And I haven't managed to find it again. By the way, have we met? Hello, my name is stupid.

Ok enough of that, notice the "O" in msg5, actually both of them. They are slightly slanted. Makes me think of the earth being slightly tilted as it wobbles around the "Sun." And, I don't know why or how I missed audit with it being stuck right in front of my face. hum, I wonder if that's because I'm, uh, not sane. As Ethan says, "go figure." which lends nicely to "audit figs" with that "O" left over. Ok, so what do I do next? I go back and look at msg4, again. And wouldn't you know it the "Os" in it are all slanted too. So, where does that leave me. Well either the "Os" are VERY important or NOT important. What was that? Did someone say sane?

Ok, the most important thing I get from this is GABRIEL DJINN demon/angel/both? anyways, I decide to try this http://www.autumncountry.net/ac_d_gabriel.html don't click it doesn't exist but these do.

http://www.autumncountry.net/ac_d_bound.html
http://www.autumncountry.net/ac_djinn_home.html
http://www.autumncountry.net/ac_f_confusion.html
http://www.autumncountry.net/ac_f_coffee.html
http://www.autumncountry.net/ac_e_ashes.html

I'm sure there are others, I'm just to tired to make the connections. Cause that's probably all they are, just connections where none exist. Now watch me be wrong.

Ok, let's see what turns up when we google [google]Solomon, Temple, Genesis, Gabriel[/google]
Then [google]Solomon, Temple, Genesis, Gabriel, Djinn, Demon[/google]

[Sylvia]

Observation number 1.

This probably explains it the best. But then it could just be connections where none exist. Or is it that ALL things are connected but each of us sees it just a little BIT differently.

Observation number 2.

Years ago when I first got the internet, I thought, "wow, no more trips to the Library cause I've got all the information I could ever want right here at my finger tips." Has anyone else noticed that there is such a thing as too much information? By that I mean, when there is so much it becomes useless ramblings of a whole lot of not so sane people.

I'm just adding my useless ramblings. but I'm tired. But hey, if this manages to survive a couple millennium it may become someone's gospel. For some odd reason though, I can't see all these bits and bytes surviving like the good old parchment made from animal hides did. However, I AM so thankful I don't have to go kill an animal to write this.

Observation number 3.

What are you doing here? Don't you know there is no observation number 3? It's the Necronomicon-effect, we're all MAD.

[mortality]

W/R/T Phily's puzzle: we should be looking for "waylight."

[Sylvia]

I can't find anything on that mort that makes any sense or the other way around. But I think I may have found the lights.

There's not much info on SkyPoint: