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[pagrashtak]

Here's a couple of lines I came up with:

On one hand he had fingers six, on the other only five.
(2 +1) (4- 2) (3 4) (5- +2) (6- 5) (4+ 5)

"Choose quickly, lad!", he said with a grin, "No time to think, anyway!"
(1+ +1) (3 -3) (1+ 1) (3 2) (3 -2) (1 5)

I've constructed this in a way that gives only matching pairs of parentheses, hence the somewhat odd "fingers six" combination. You can easily reverse that to "six fingers" if you prefer a more natural sounding sentence.

[Citizen Kane]

Seems the print version had an error in it?

Hehe, looks like we either need to start over entirely, or look at the difference as a clue.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Well that helps a bunch!

Here's a listing of the MATCHABLE PAIRS!:

[Sylvia]

Got this, but it still doesn't make any since, to me anyway.

[MageSteff]

Does anyone think the fact that it is on Stenography paper is important? Or is a piece of paper just a piece of paper? With the words that a written down the center of tha page I don't know If I am making too much out of it.

I'm also going to ignore the words for a moment and just look at the numbers for a minute.

We have 48 numbers, 24 pairs. Especially now that we have a corrected puzzle to work with.

I did a google search on 24 pairs and cypher and came up with a paper on the Voynich Manuscript which had this interesting tidbit of information locked inside it...

{emphasis is mine}

[zounds]

I've been playing around for a while and haven't got anywhere, thought i'd post how I wrote it out, just in case it might give someone else a nudge.

[pagrashtak]

[konamouse]

From Dale's Hidden Journal 060706

[Citizen Kane]

Looking over it now. So far I think the first four lines are thus:

[Rogi Ocnorb]

That's some great work, guys!.

Assuming Kona's is a high-confidence solve, it comes out as:

[Citizen Kane]

Okay, I think I might have something... The latter part doesn't rhyhm like I want it to though, going to try and tweak it.

[Citizen Kane]

Possible solve

[LatentMoths]

Twas wondering through and thought I would offer my $0.02. I hope you don't mind an "outsider's" input as I am not actively playing this, but here goes...

[goldranger]

[sinyx]

From here

Mystes Ancient Greek - from muo to close the mouth

Plural mystai. An initiate to the first degrees of the Mysteries; the next higher rank being that of the epoptes (seer); and the highest function being that of the hierophantes (teacher or communicator). With the Pythagoreans the neophyte or mystes guarded silence as to what he had learned, and was authorized and empowered to speak or teach only when his mouth had been opened because of attaining the rank of epoptes.

This custom has been borrowed by Roman Catholic Cardinals along with the term Mystes: "A word or two may be said of the singular practice of closing and subsequently opening the mouth of a newly created cardinal. Like almost everything else connected with the subject, this form had once a real significance, but has become a mere meaningless formality. Some reasonable time was originally allowed to elapse before the pontiff in one consistory formally pronounced the mouth to be opened which he had declared to be closed in a previous consistory. Now the form of opening is pronounced within a few minutes of the form of closing"

Also...

In antiquity, the name of the new Initiates; now that of Roman Cardinals, who having borrowed all their other rites and dogmas from Aryan, Egyptian and Hellenic "heathen", have helped themselves also to the musiz of the neophytes. They have to keep their eyes and mouth shut on their consecration and are, therefore, called Myste.