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PUZZLE Wes Keeler Combination
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AbuAmaal
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 		PUZZLE Wes Keeler Combination
With reference to [url=http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1155]
the Sam email thread[/url]

Since on the whole we are looking for two digit numbers,
most likely, we might try

#1: 10
#2: 29
...
#4: 14

Since we probably believe that we are looking for three numbers,
would it be possible to interpret the figurine as a "reverse direction" instruction?

Anyway, I'll pass this possibility on to Sam.


Seems awfully quiet around here. Either everybody is in chat
or I've missed a thread.

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 		Just some wild spec on the combo:

Maybe the statue if meant to be representational of Digitalis means "minus" due to his initial disappearance.

Maybe the SYMBOL on the hand means THREE instead of the fingers meaning five. According to Maggie's post here in regards to the sanskrit DA:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=561&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

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Since we are in agreement as to what the symbol is, let's start by discussing what it stands for. It is, of course, a letter in the Sanskrit language. It is also, according to the Katapayadhi Number Code, associated with the chakra Manipura (also called the Manipuraka)
>>>Chakra Three


I know it's a little tenuous...but what isn't at times:)

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 		More numbers that didn't work (from email posted in the Sam's email thread http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1155&highlight=


0 29 65
1 29 65
02 96 5
12 96 5
0 2 65
1 2 65
0 26 5
10 6 5
5 60 1
1 29 56
65 29 1
10 29 14
40 29 56
20 29 56
40 29 65
20 29 65
8 29 65
88 29 65
1 29 11
7 29 11

Another possible puzzle:

Quote:
Speaking of Wes' place, one last thing I just remembered. I looked
around for anything that might fit the "obscure book" reference Wes made
about the dead eyes or "numbered ones." I couldn't find anything that
looked like a book he had been currently reading, but this after all his
office, not his home. There was one of those deskpad calendars on his
desk, recently switched over to May, but the only thing written on it was
the name, "DALE" and the words "CASTLE GREEN RD", which isn't an address I recognize from around here. I did manage to find the figurine people had asked me about, the one made by Sarah Wyatt. It was on top of his filing cabinet. Someone had suggested looking at the bottom of it but there was nothing there. It was sitting on top of a small piece of paper with this written on it however. "Mais si c'était vrai ?" [/bI haven't had time to try and figure it out yet but I brought the paper with me to make sure I got it copied correctly.


MaggieMae wrote
Quote:
I looked up the phrase: Mais si c'était vrai ?
It is French for: But if it were true

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 		Castle Green Rd
Well I found out where a Castle Green Rd is through Google. Only one reference came up and it's in Salem, NY. When I put it through mapquest, I got this map. Take a look directly south and you see...... Ash Grove. Take a look southwest and you see... Spraguetown. Coincidence?
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 		if you put that phrase through cluesearch, it only comes up with one result - http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales/livres/Engels_friedrich/anti_duhring/anti-duhring_t2.rtf

and the phrase isn't in that document.

Tried names of Engels, FriedrichEngels, Duhring and Tremblay at mythosphere.org but nothing.

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 		OT - Sprague is everywhere
Just got back from a trip to Yosemite and had to be forcibly restrained from taking a pic of me standing next to the sign "Sprague Road."

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 		Re: Castle Green Rd
Varin wrote:
Well I found out where a Castle Green Rd is through Google. Only one reference came up and it's in Salem, NY. When I put it through mapquest, I got this map. Take a look directly south and you see...... Ash Grove. Take a look southwest and you see... Spraguetown. Coincidence?


Also, go west from Ash Grove and you see Archdale.
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 		since i have no reputation to speak of..
Specializing in wild spec, I must answer the call:

Castle Green Red

Don't know why. But that might be another way of seeing it.
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 		In regards to the email from "Rubin Echus" I send the following out into the world to see if it triggers anything. Echus is apparently "fallen" in French. Also, there are several areas on Mars named Echus, e.g., Echus Chaos.

The only thing I could find on Rubin, suggested it was a variation of Reuben, which means "Good Son".

It was just such an odd name I thought it was worth checking out.

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 		"Fallen" "Good Son"...

Perhaps linking to one of the Marzano Bros?
...or is there another Mr Spague we need to speak with?

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 		Rubin Echus might mean Mature Ruby or Ripe Ruby in French...although I'm far from certain. Some sites translate Ruby as RUBIS, but the one I used translated it as RUBIN.

http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran

I did find the "fallen" ref....but the site I was on referred to Echus as Sort of "fallen due"/ "ripe" /"mature".

~cem Smile

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 		SPEC Keeler combination and email
1. The diagram suggests (among other things) the zodiac.
Zodiac correspondences are pretty elaborate and can be
matched to almost anything. One way to read Wes' signs
would be:
A: brain - Aries - 7 and 9
B: sunflower - Leo - 1 and 4
C: foxglove - Aquarius - 2 and 3
D: hand, palm - no idea Confused

This is pretty convoluted.
I think we're looking for something clearer - something that
will be convincing once you think of it.

What you have here are two overlapping 12 pointed stars
offset by 10 degrees. I'm ignoring the details and just thinking
of it as reminiscent of astrological diagrams, in a general way.

2. Another way to read "rubinechus" is backwards, as German:
"suche Nibur" (search for Nibur). I've done that, and discovered
that a lot of people named Rubin call themselves Nibur on the web.
Some of them in Germany. Nothing promising as far as I saw.

- AA

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 		SPEC Keeler combination and email
Let's put SPEC in bold here:

About that hand: it does translate directly into Cheiro.
It's already been noted that he was a famous palmist;
I don't see it noted explicitly that this is also Greek for "hand"
but it very likely has been, as that territory has been
gone over.

It's not hard to get from Cheiro to the zodiac, but this seems
to go via the planets, which is awkward. I don't recall much
about Cheiro at this point apart from his planetary order.

Now if the hand were the first sign rather than the last,
I'd be happier. And I don't like switching between flowers
and body parts.
(I can give you something worse though:
the thinker = le penseur [original title] and
pensee [fr.] means both "thought" and "pansy". That way madness lies.)

I wonder if there's something about Cheiro that could help
to sort this all out.

Let me just rehears the logic, such as it is, once more:

Data: four pictures, 3 unknown numbers

Simplest solution: one picture is the key, the other three are the
numbers. Key should be the first picture.

Hypothesis: it's actually the last picture, the hand, interpreted
as cheiro.

Question 1: where exactly does that lead? Probably not to where
I began, but perhaps to something of that sort.

Question 2: Do we read these pictures right to left?

- AA

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 		Re: SPEC Keeler combination and email
AbuAmaal wrote:

Simplest solution: one picture is the key, the other three are the
numbers. Key should be the first picture.

- AA

I was thinking similarly, except that I think the statue of Digitalis is the key. It's bigger than the other three, plus it's the only one that's in color.

But what to do with it all...

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 		And don't forget that when you "draw" the lines in the picture, the Foxglove is the center of attention. So maybe it's the Foxglove next to Digitalis that is the key (not that it helps me any Surprised )
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