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[Withe Bartbi]

[13books] Book Zero

[kylegumby]

In relation to the coordinate grid:

What about the rules page? Obviously not all of them could work, but these work out as coordinates on an A-F, 1-9 system.

1. Be honourable in conduct.
4. Be cautious, but trust.
5. Abide by the law.
6. Do not jump to conclusions.

B1, B4, A5, D6?


I don't know. It doesn't seem very likely - just throwing it out there.

[Moongazer]

13 books - Book Zero

[Law of Five]

Re: William Blake
This is getting odder and odder...

Clearly there's a big link between William Blake and Book Zero. I did a little digging and discovered http://www.skyscript.co.uk/blake.html:

Blake was born at [b]28 Broad Street, Soho, London at 7:45 pm. LMT on 28th November 1757[/b]. He was a strange, highly-strung child who experienced his first vision at the age of 3 or 4, when God himself "put his head to the window and set [Blake] a-screaming". Blake commemorated the vision-drenched haunts of his childhood in verse:

The fields from Islington to Marybone,
To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood:
Were builded over with pillars of gold,
And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

These are the first 4 lines of the second part of Blake's 'Jerusalem' written in 1820 and they mention ISLINGTON.

Digging further reveals this comment from a dissertation http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/GHecimovich/dissertationproposal.htmon Blake's Jerusalem:

[i]As David Erdman has observed, most of the places enumerated at the opening of Blake's Jerusalem (J.27) may be found in Rocque's London survey of 1745. The Green Man was on the New Road from Paddington to Islington; a little further, down Love Lane, was Jew's Harp House. Pancras could be reached by wandering past Paradise Row and through the pastures called Lambs Conduit Fields, east of the Green Man. The outer "pillars"-Islington, Kentish-town, Primrose Hill, and St. Johns's Wood-were all within a two and a half mile radius of Golden Square (Erdman 473). My chapter concludes that Jerusalem is an "Illuminated" riddle-session performed over the slumbering body of Albion/London. In the ancient tradition of the "waking" riddle, Albion/London is stretched out on Blake's "Illuminated" textual field.

So there does seem to be a connection between Blake, Islington and the map of London. He was born in Broad Street, Soho, which is in the lower left corner of the second map ('WhereisI'). I can't find a Broad Street in modern Soho, but there is an Old Broad Street just east of Bishopsgate, which is on the Tudor Map. So can anyone else think of any other Blake-related locations? Where did he live in London (as he spent most of his life there)? Where did he die? Where is he buried? Are there any other locations connected with him? Blake scholars, we need you!

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[Rogi Ocnorb]

It seems these people like to meet on bridges.

http://forums.tortuga.com/viewtopic.php?t=51

And the cryptic reference to a bridge in the phone call to Shane...

[jefftheworld]

I still don't think we're on the right track, I think he'll show us when we are on the right track...

[Rogi Ocnorb]

A sound assumption.
Provided he knows where we've been in our efforts.
EDIT:
Oh, I forgot, He can see the future.

[kylegumby]

He can also see Unfiction.

[dem]

Re: 13 books - Book Zero

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Something occurred to me on the way home from work:

Could "where is I" mean "where is Isaac"? The answer, presently is: "interred in Westminster Abbey":

(Newton's)... study and understanding of light, the invention of the reflecting telescope (1668), and his revelation in his Principia of the mathematical ordering of the universe are all represented on his monument in Westminster Abbey.

Newton died at Kensington on 20 March 1727 and was buried in the (Westminster) Abbey on 28 March. Before the funeral his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber and his coffin was followed to its grave by most of the Fellows of the Royal Society. The Lord Chancellor, two dukes and three earls were pall bearers.

(from: http://www.westminster-abbey.org/library/burial/newton.htm)

And lo, there's Jerusalem again...

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[Law of Five]

Can't get this out of my brain now...

Another suggestion, this time from my wife - could "where is I" refer to The London Eye?

(http://www.londoneye.com/planner/location_map.asp?landmark=bttower)

It's around the curve of the river to the west of the 2 maps, but keep it in mind...

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[Shane]

Well,I really hope that I don't have to cross any literal bridges,unless one of you nice peoples wants to hold my hand the whole time. But,anyways...

http://photobucket.com/albums/a109/Br0k3nr34l1ty/?action=view&current=scan0001.jpg
This is the front,and I have no friggin' clue what the colors are in the background. Also,the scanner changed the colors around..Both colors are darker then they appear to be.

http://photobucket.com/albums/a109/Br0k3nr34l1ty/?action=view&current=scan0002.jpg this is the backside of the notecard some Mysterious Person sent me.
Sorry I scanned them sideways <.<... I didn't mean to,and I only had a little bit of time.
He who stares into the abyss is stared at bye the abyss. Do you guys think that the misspelling is intentional?
Also also..no response from the Email I sent Islington.

[Shane]

It's not exactly the same,but...
"When you stare into an abyss, the abyss stares also into you."- Friedrich Nietzsche
The difference is obvious,but so is the similarity.

[Law of Five]

Another little link between William Blake and the theme emerging from Triskabiblios :

ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE, published by William Blake c. 1788

Have a look at the illustrated electronic edition here: http://www.blakearchive.org/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/blake/Illuminated-Book/ARO/@Generic__CollectionView;cv=java

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