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[Monotony]

Just so that all of you know this, as to give another level of meaning to this narrative, the word "Jejune" is Latin (jejunus) for empty of food, hungry, meager.

Also, mentioned on the EPWA's website, in the section devoted to Public Space Reclaimation, is the fact that

"in impractical terms public space reclaimation is:

Reversal of Bolgia Two plus Bolgia Ten
Posting a poem about the famous polish necromancer Pan Twardowski"


-B2 + B10 = ?

Bolgia, or "pockets" are sections of the eighth circle of hell "Malbodge". (Evil pockets)

Bolgia two is the second one of these pockets, discribed in the divine comedy as ditches of stone. In Bolgia 2 "Flatterers are steeped in human excrement. This is because their flatteries on earth were nothing but 'a load of excrement' " (Canto XVIII)

Bolgia Ten is the last one of these pockets, the closest to the next circle. In bolgia Ten: "Here various sorts of falsifiers (alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators), who are a disease on society, are themselves afflicted with different types of diseases" (Cantos XXIX and XXX)

So, now, I ask all of our little team here, what is Bolgia Two Reversed? Does it mean that those who do not flatter are not steeped in excrement? Or does it mean that those who insult excrete? And when added to ten does this mean that flattering falsifiers get a bad case of dysentery?


A Poem about Pan Twardowski:

To be completed.

[Monotony]

Another moment of puzzleing from the EPWA terminal...

[JTony]

Regardign Bolgia

[Options]

Bolgia 8, in the Divine Comedy, holds the fraudulent, who appear as living tongues of flame, forever burning and yowling in agony. The number might be important, too: It's the Eighth ditch of the Eighth Circle of Hell.

I'm not sure what relation that has to the folkloric figure of Pan Twardowski, though. There's a lot of literature that seems to mention him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Twardowski

Although the only poem about him was written by one Polish poet, Leopold Staff, a Modernist and fan of the Nietsczhe's Ubermensch theory.

[organelle]

B10 - B2 = BAIT! (B8)

[JTony]

This probably doesn't mean anything, but I can't help noticing how much Twardowski reminds me of Baron Munchausen... just in time period and story-telling style and their effects on European culture.

Like I said, probably a completely wasted observation, but there it is for what it is worth.

[CaptKing]

Well, since nothing is going to happen for a while I guess, I'll post the letter I received in my Black Box. (just got my scanner working today)

http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img002dj3.jpg

So, there you go. Check it out.

[Monotony]

Where has this game gone...?

[CaptKing]

Well, we are just going to have to wait until spring of 2009. (I got this information from somewhere, but to keep the 4th wall, cannot say where I got it)

But, trust me. A few people can back me up on this one.

[tungsten]

Waiting.

[JTony]

[CaptKing]

New myspace bulletin from SF Savants

[JTony]

Yeah, I'm one of those who e-mailed to see if I could get any leads. Here's the note I got back this morning:

[Options]

Waaait a tic. Sorry to butt in, but if he doesn't know anything about EPWA, how'd he know how to correct that typo you made (EWPA)?

[blawk359]

if it counts for anything, i just created a profile with jejune on the uber-trippy "login" page.