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I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, but after seeing "Thunderclap" the first thing i though of was the entire area in the story referred to as Thunderclap, and populated by some pretty scary characters. Nonetheless, in the middle of Thunderclap is the Dark Tower from which the entire epic novel takes its title, which holds together all of the parallel worlds and universes. The king of the dark tower is mad and attempting to destroy all of reality, but the protagonist combs thunderclap in order to find a way to destroy the dark king and restore the tower.
This could be wildly off track, but then, so could any story that we look at. I feel like this needs more investigation to find whether or not it ties into the book "the Combed Thunderclap" and how all of this ties to PXC.
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**Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:32 pm

DarkHuman

ok TDA, i'll bite, how did he "comb" thunderclap, what did he find, and how did he kill the king?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:17 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:55 pm

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crovax1234 · Boot Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 46

I could be totally coming from left field here, but is there any sort of transcription of the story within "Combed Thunderclap"? If so, couldn't it possibly be the target of the Beale on #223?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:32 pm

ramsfan

A puzzling friend was very drunk on Saturday night by the time we got to discuss my current obsession. He kept repeating Stephen King, thunderclap, and given his state (I was the nominated driver) I didn't take much notice. So just to support the dragon, you may have struck on something important. It feels very pxc, but then so does the anagram suggestion implicit in borges.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:09 pm

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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

"I" stole the cube

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:23 pm

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satoshI stole the cube?

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**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:52 pm

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mrarfarf · Kilroy Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

Crimson Hexagon?

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LilPickle-Amplizine · Boot Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 17

Strange things afoot!

**Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:38 pm

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Like the antiearth idea. Maybe you should write the book, or go straight to screenplay. Our house was also struck by lightning in the last storm. Almighty bang, it shook, cat spooked, electricity went off. Those 3p guys mean to warn us alright. I can't get beyond Thunderclap - Newman - Randy - Ok so I am short but there's no reason to sing about it.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:27 am

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PerplexHero · Boot Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 30

Okay, new thought here.

As I was looking at this, I was thinking about the idea suggested earlier that maybe "COMBED THUNDERCLAP" was a phrase that read something sensible in a different language. From this, I started looking at applying the Solitaire cipher to this text. I didn't come up with anything yet, but that is because Solitaire is so dependent on keying the deck to some order. One obvious way to do this is by the card numbers themselves, but I realized there was another, more subtle way to order these cards:

**Posted:** Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:23 am

Scribe

OK, I've been thinking about what madame bianca said in her last futures - can't see the library for the bookshelves. This has got to be a direct reference to this message, so here's some spec to get us thinking.

I've been thinking that the Library of Babel reference is possibly a lot simpler than we have been making it to be. What if we're just looking for a library? Either as a starting point for some further directions (the number strings?) or something else.

But then the question is - what library?

Well, to me it makes sense to go with the Thunderclap reference. According to Wikipedia, Borges was head of the National Library of Argentina. Here's a link to the wikipedia article for that, complete with photo of the place - isn't it cool? Smile

(Note also that the photo seems to have some kind of code on the windows - it's not Braille, as far as I can see, but I doubt it's related. Still..)

Here's an English translation of the library site. Also, this page notes a possible link between the building and Borges, but it's sketchy.

According to the links above (in fact, take a look here, there are four main pillars, and two floors above pillars. What I'd really like is a plan or map of the place, but having problems finding one. I'm wondering if there's some way that the number strings relate to this architecture or something, as a way of pinpointing an exact point within the building.

So.. anyone from Buenos Aires in the forum? Smile

**Posted:** Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:24 am

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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

wakening

**Posted:** Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:14 pm

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PerplexHero · Boot Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 30

Re: wakening

**Posted:** Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:20 pm