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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

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

Wow, I have no idea what to make of that. I have to watch it at least 2 more times to make any sense of it. How did you find that btw? What were those "hard kicks?"

**Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:33 am

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

The first strange thing I noticed were the borders of the eye having strange markings around it. I took a screenshot and touched it up, but I think it's nothing important. It just says waking in a tiled repeating fashion.

Any other ideas?

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

thread in general discussion

**Posted:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:47 am

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