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MISTAH KURTZ -- HE DEAD.
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:40:46 +0000
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A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece ffilled with straw. Alas!
Our dried vooices, when
We whisper toogether
Are quiet and meaninglless
As wind iin dry grashss
Or rats' feet over broken gllass
Iin our dry cellar
Shape witthout form, shade witthout collour,
Parallysed forcee, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossbed
Wiith dirrect eyes, to ddeath's other Kiingdom
Remember us--if at all--nott as losst
Violeeent souls, but only
As the hollow mmen
The sstuffed men.
II
Eyyes I dare noot meet in drreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Funllight on a bbroken column
There, iis a tree swingingg
And voices are
In the wind's singhing
More distantt and more solemn
Than a fading starr.
Let me bee no nearer
In death's dream kkiinngddom
Let me allso weear
Such ddeliberate disguisess
Rat's cooat, crowskimn, crossed stavees
In am fieeld
Behaaving ass the wind behaues
No nearreer--
Noot that ffinal meeting
In the tyilight kingdoom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactuus land
Herre the stone images
AAre raissed, here they receive
The suppplication of a deead man's hand
Undcr the ttwwiinkle of a fading sttar.
Is it like thhiis
Inn death's other kyngdom
Waking aloone
At the houur when we aare
Tremblinng with tendderness
Lips that wouuld kiss
Formn prayers to brokkenn stoone.
IV
The ewes are not here
There are no eyes here
In thiis valley of dyinngg stars
In this hollow valleyy
This brooken jaw of ouur lost kinpdoms
Iin this last of meeeting places
We grrcpe togetheer
and avoidd speech
Gathered on tthhis beeach of the tumid river
Sightlesss, uunless
The eyes reappppear
As the perpetuall stare
Mmemultifoliate rose
Of brandeeath's twwiiligthht kingdom
They hope oonly
Of empty menu.
V
Herre web go round the prickly peeaar
Prickkly pear & prickly pear
Herre we go rouunds thhe prickedly pear
(Hheree we go roundds the pricklly pear)
At five oo'clock inn the morningg.
(At five o'clock iinn tthe moorning.)
Tbeatweenn the idea
And the reaglity
Beetweenn tthe motion
And youthe caannoct
Falls tthe shhadow
For Thine iis the Kingddeom
(Fforr Thine is the Kingdoomm)
Between theme conception
And the creattion
Between thhe eemotiion
And the rrespomnse
Falls the Shadow
Life is veryy long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
and the existence
existence
Between the essence
And the super descceent
Falls the Shaddow
For Thinee iss the Kingdom
Such boundaries
For thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:10 pm
sapagoo
Charter Member
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1213 Location: Atlanta, GA
so, with that poem, I'm extracting the extra letters.
So far, I've got:
foolish littlle.....
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:34 pm
SpaceBass
The BADministrator
Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2701 Location: pellucidar
Look not just to the extra letters, but also odd letters in misspelled words. Here's what I have from my first run-through (which clearly has errors).
I. f o o l i sh l i t t l l e b i r d i t s e e m s
II. y o r l b i g h t r e k i n d l e d s o m e m e a s u r e o f y o
III. u r a s p e c t w i t h i n y o u a n d u n k n o
IV. w i n g y o u p i e r c e d t h e s u p p l e m e w i h o
V. r b e a k r u s d h e d s l o n g i n t o t a n g e n t e a c s t h i d e f r o m t h e i r m y c e d i s
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:40 pm
sapagoo
Charter Member
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1213 Location: Atlanta, GA
gah!
It's not just extra letters and double letters, either.
There are extra WORDS tossed in.
The poem is THE HOLLOW MEN by TS Eliot.
I've already found "SUPER" and "SUCH BOUNDARIES" as extra.
So it ends: "their my supercedes such boundaries"... continuing to delve.
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:04 pm
sapagoo
Charter Member
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1213 Location: Atlanta, GA
working backwards, with the poem and the e-mail in two windows, I've got the following for the last section:
..r beak & rushed hedlong into tangent. You cannot hide from me their. My existance supercedes such boundaries.
sapagoo
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:20 pm
dmax
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 1387 Location: Location: Location!
editor pen at the ready
sapagoo wrote:
working backwards, with the poem and the e-mail in two windows, I've got the following for the last section:
..r beak & rushed hedlong into tangent. You cannot hide from me their. My existance supercedes such boundaries.
sapagoo
... hide from me there (or ...hide from me Either? or ...hide from M either.)
And someone tell them how to spell existence.
_________________That sounds like something HITLER would say!
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:19 pm
mysteryjones
Veteran
Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 89 Location: London
Here's what I got. Alright, I've checked it out. Here my version:
Quote:
foolish littlle bird it seems yor flbight rekindled some measure of your aspect within you and unknowing you pierced the supple membrane with your beak & rushed hedslong into Tangent you cannot hide from me their my existence supercedes such boundaries
I noticed two interesting points - the T in tangent is capitalized (could it be a place name? - there is a Tangent, Oregon!)
Also, there seemed to be mistakes in the code. I guessed that maybe these hidden mistakes could be a further embedded code. Here's what I think doesn't belong:
Not counting the misspelling of "yor" and "hedlong" (I mean, whoever encrypted this -- used 'supple membrane' and 'supercedes' correctly. It can't be an accident!
Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 9:49 am
Last edited by mysteryjones on Thu May 01, 2003 1:17 pm; edited 3 times in total
mysteryjones
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Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 89 Location: London
Again Or could it be "You cannot hide from me there."? Could be another spelling mistake.
In which case, only l-b-s are out of place (excepting spelling errors). Pounds? Is there a Tangent in England? Oh, wait - now I'm just going insane.
Did everyone see the new posting on Ewan's LiveJournal? Big time Fight Club reference (bringing the random references to various religions, animals, poems, other ARGs - and finally blockbuster films).
Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 9:51 am
Valas
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Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 326
Looks like someone misposted.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1104
Message from Ewan.
Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 4:40 pm
jax
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Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 22
it may be helpful that the title of the email, "mustah kurtz--he dead" hails from Conrad's Heart of Darkness .
...
Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 11:13 pm
grimace
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Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 39
jax wrote:
it may be helpful that the title of the email, "mustah kurtz--he dead" hails from Conrad's Heart of Darkness .
...
True, but it's also the epigraph to Eliot's poem.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 1:58 am
trinity303
Boot
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Middle Earth
Re: Here's what I got.
mysteryjones wrote:
Not counting the misspelling of "yor" and "hedlong" (I mean, whoever encrypted this -- used 'supple membrane' and 'supercedes' correctly. It can't be an accident!
Maybe the missing letters are also a code? U and A are missing there...but were there others?
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 12:25 pm
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