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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity 4th January 2006
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Juxta
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity 4th January 2006
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Granier diaries, installment one
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Time: 06:42 PM

Just got back home from the library where I have been looking at the first of these diary pages from the Museum. It's really rather exciting, I hope you're proud of yourselves - I'm an accredited author thanks to you. It's been a bit of a weird afternoon, looking at this page handwritten by someone almost 300 years ago. The pages are pretty small, and so is Granier's handwriting. This was obviously a journal which he carried everywhere with him, so it had to be small - about 7x12 centimetres. The edges are roughened and the pages have gone yellow, but it's still quite legible, although we have to go slowly, and I'm not allowed to get too close to the paper in case my breath damages it. I spent a couple of hours on this page today - Cymbalisty, for all his irritations, was actually quite useful, helping me to decipher some of the more tricky words. He's taken that section of the manuscript back to the Museum now, and picked up the one we'll work on tomorrow.

In any case, enough of this preamble. Here are the fruits of my labours, the first page of the parts of Anthony Granier's diary which were held in the sealed archive. It's all very mysterious, I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next:

13 March 1736
Have embarked upon Northern expedition. Accompanied by Edwina Mountling, an Academy scholar of about fifty despatched by my Master. "Accompanied", but not "companioned", for she is a woman of little conversation, preferring her mathematical calculations to civil discourse. Three days journeying and we are still only halfway to our destination. Exceeding weary. Provisions provided tiresomely similar. I relish a leg of mutton as well as any man, but cannot feast upon it for lunch and dinner every day without some decline in appetite. The lands through which we journey are as well-formed as I have been led to expect, but pleasant vistas give no relief from the awful task which confronts us. I find my heart is heavy indeed, despite the serving girl's charming attempts to lift my spirits.

17 March 1736
At last, the castle is reached. I find the hospitality very fine. My lord is an excellent host, and the feast with which he greeted our arrival would have honoured nobler men than we. I have writ to my Master that the first part of the journey is successfully completed. It is odd to muse upon my Master in this place. She would take some pleasure in this locale, I think; she has ever delighted in new landscapes and the new creatures found there. I recall her once, above ten years past, taking such pains to instruct me in some new specimen of hive-bee she had found, enumerating its parts and elaborating upon its society. Had the times not needed her resolve, she might have remained merely a fine naturalist. Would that it had been so. My Master has never visited this place, I think, nor ever will do now, but the fate of all the people within one dozen miles of here rests with her.

19 March 1736
I visited the mining works this day. Almost as much as can be done, has been done. They have extracted sufficient of the material for my Master's experiments. There is so little, so very little, and almost all of it will be needed if the thing is to be done. The men and women working at the mine know nothing of this, of course. They are so cheerful and so resolute. They tell me that they are honoured to work at an occupation which may prove the salvation of the City - this, of course, they have been told. Wanion!

21 March 1736
Today we feasted for The Builders Celebration, a festival of the Way of the Cube. Excellent sport, with several bouts of combat between the people of the village, divers plays and masques, and three boar roasted whole upon the fire. Ground struck for a new general store on the Green. A figure of the Holy Cube, along with images of Gyvann paraded through the streets. The matter struck me as curious. I shall write more upon this anon.

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 		strange dates -- is that AD?
and at that time i would have thought theyd use PPX dates

is it about the time of a catastrophe ?
then dates are ac = after catastrophe?

mining for what? -- uranium would be scary Smile
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 		Well, it sounds like the "Master" that Granier is referring to is Vianne Adamek, which fits the time period. Not sure if that helps any. You think the stuff they were mining is the same stuff they're digging for at Viendenbourg?
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 		What does he mean by 'Wanion!'

struck me as odd.

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 		Glad you asked that as I was in the process of looking this up; courtesy of Merriam Webster:

Merriam Webster's Dictionary wrote:
Main Entry: wan·ion
Pronunciation: 'wän-y&n
Function: noun
Etymology: from the obsolete phrase in the waniand unluckily, literally, in the waning (moon), from Middle English, from waniand, northern present participle of wanien, wanen to wane
archaic : PLAGUE, VENGEANCE -- used in the phrase with a wanion


I presume as an exclamation he's using it as in "Plague!"

There's lots to mull over here isn't there...?
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tanner wrote:
strange dates -- is that AD?
and at that time i would have thought theyd use PPX dates

is it about the time of a catastrophe ?
then dates are ac = after catastrophe?

mining for what? -- uranium would be scary Smile


Going by the timeline on the wiki this is the very end of the war and just before the beginning of the "hiatus of celebration of the midwinter festivals and games". So, a bit of ominous time then. I'm glad she gave us this page and not one filled entirely with Granier's eating habits. I guess Violet helped us out and Earthified (Terranised? There's got to be a word for it) the dates for us. Smile
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 		Yes, I am sure they are mining for the same thing, does that imply that someone wants the same potential for mass destruction as they had at the end of the war? If so who would they want to use it on?

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 		Us? Just a guess.
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 		Perhaps they want to harness the incredible energies released in order to rip a hole in space/time to come over here and pick up the Cube.

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 		Well they didnt call it "BC" on earth until well into AD So regardless of whatever AC & BC stands fFor, he wouldnt have used it, since he's not in AC yet. AC doesn't start fFor another 2 years. er, year and a half, say.

It is interesting to note the people practicing cubist beliefs. laying to bed beliefs of those who thought cubism was fFounded on The Receda Cube -- which wouldn't be discovered fFor another nine years. Of course we already knew the PCAG's roots are vested in ancient religious ceremonies fFrom the 4th century BC, and here granier records some fFurther evidence of this. (I really need to write a proper wiki entry fFor The Builders Celebration and Restitution of the Cube)
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 		Seems strange they are celebrating cube related festivals 8 years before the cube was found? Anyway, another exciting journal to follow! At last we might find out what actually happened...

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Scott wrote:
Well they didnt call it "BC" on earth until well into AD So regardless of whatever AC & BC stands fFor, he wouldnt have used it, since he's not in AC yet. AC doesn't start fFor another 2 years. er, year and a half, say.

It is interesting to note the people practicing cubist beliefs. laying to bed beliefs of those who thought cubism was fFounded on The Receda Cube -- which wouldn't be discovered fFor another nine years. Of course we already knew the PCAG's roots are vested in ancient religious ceremonies fFrom the 4th century BC, and here granier records some fFurther evidence of this. (I really need to write a proper wiki entry fFor The Builders Celebration and Restitution of the Cube)


i didnt, of course, expect the use of BC/AC but i also didnt expect the use of Christian style dates
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 		Anybody else think it was the Castilles that were Granier's hosts? As far as I can remember they had a castle up near Viendenbourg.
Don't know if that's relevant to anything but I just thought I'd mention it.

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 		Perhaps they're mining for the minerals to make the Receda cube?

I know it's been said that the cube is not made of 'any material known on their earth', but who's to say that this mysterious Master's experiments don't involve a little molecular tinkling?
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duckiemonster wrote:
but who's to say that this mysterious Master's experiments don't involve a little molecular tinkling?


I hope you mean 'tinkering' and not 'tinkling'. Round here tinkling is a euphemism for something *completely* different.

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