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[Faustus]

Sounds like it, here's an analysis of his points/possible paths.

[Faustus]

[IngyW]

Something new on Slice's Blog!

[Cabbage]

Good spot Ingy

Sounds like a rap on the knuckles for us! "I was a little disappointed" - like in a school report when it says "could do better".

The ISBN number is

The People's Music
Ian MacDonald
Paperback - Pimlico (Jul 2003) - 272 Pages
ISBN 1844130932 - ISBN-13 9781844130931

Has anyone got it? Or access to a bookshop on Sunday? I believe this will just confirm the Nick Drake connection that someone noticed a while back (edit - think it was iamba_si).

[LordIllidan]

I'm rather suspicious off all those blank lines of text at the bottom of that page. I've tried trawling through the source, though, and couldn't find anything.

[IngyW]

Okay here's what I got so far:

I got the ISBN and checked it on Amazon. One review was by a guy with the nickname of "Middlerabbit" but not hare, so probably a coincidence, as is the fact that he also reviewed The Beautiful South/Housemartins CD/DVD (my favourite group), and MacDonald also wrote books on The Beatles (my Mum's favourite group) and Shostakovich (my Dad's favourite composer). Probably not relevant…unless this whole ARG is just for me

Are Penguin and Pimlico related? I was expecting a Penguin book.

The Hare link goes to Ghost Story, a sample chapter. Link to the Marsh Agency (link broken) "who deal with foreign rights on my books" Foreign rights – in other places, Mirrorworld? I'm going to ask Alice if she has a copy of "The People's Music" or "Ghost Story"

Another link is to Durer's hare…one of my favourite pictures – coincidences are getting silly now…or else I'm getting paranoid - I'm glad there are no mirrors in here!

Actually, totally unrelated, but HareLink does exist: http://www.harelink.biz/

EDIT: Also mentioned:

[AndyAndyO]

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Yeah I'd agree, the Marsh Agency looks OOG to me, I can't see anything about hares on the page though which bothers me if it's supposed to be a cloo.

The myspace link I think is just to get us looking at his page

The random links at the bottom I think are just random hare related items.

Which leaves the three puzzles at the top... and I've got nothing there

EDIT, OK the dates one, there's 6 dates and the clue is

[veebee]

Something on Litt's My Space

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=88724042&albumID=0&imageID=1371356


going to have a bit more of a snoop round...

EDIT: if you take the dates and read them day/month, then aug 1st/nov25th = 08011 125
The start of a phone number?

[IngyW]

I can't see MySpce extra pictures without logging in - I'm not a member and frankly, too tired to join today, so let me know what you find (does it help to join all social sites to play ARGs reguarly?!)

Been looking at the dates in MJ's diary, both on http://www.tobylitt.com/morehares.html and http://slicequeen.livejournal.com/871.html?thread=6247

still no joy yet. Tried the BBC On this Day, but nothing significant has jumped out at me.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
Lewis Carroll was born on 27th January 1832 and died on 14th January 1898!


BTW looked at the picture of MJ's bookshelf and noticed the Toby Litt book there is called "deadkidsongs" - significant, considering what happened to MJ?

EDIT

[veebee]

Nick drake, born June 19th, died nov 25th!
Anne Frank ( of diary fame) born June 12th, last diary entry august 1st.

I think those are the most relevant events for the given dates, along with Lewis Caroll birth & death - thanks IngyW for that one.

The Anne Frank ref is a little tenuous, but as there is no official date for her death, it is the only one to work with. Going to have another look, just in case there is something else.

EDIT: these are the dates with their years

14/01/1898 LC died
27/01/1832 LC born
12/06/1929 AF born
19/06/1948 ND born
01/08/1944 AF last diary entry
25/11/1974 ND died

incidentally, Anne Frank was given a diary for her 13th birthday, and Nick Drake's latest album " Family Tree" was released last year on June 19th, his birthday.

[Faustus]

I dont think the anne frank reference is so tenuous...after all its from the diary of a young girl, and so are the dates.

in that case we have now have the years these dates are in which is

lewis carroll 1832-1898
nick drake 1948-1974
anne frank 1942-1944

or as days/months which is:

lewis carroll 2701-1401
Nick drake 0619-1125
Anne Frank 0612-0801

not sure what we can do with these...think the years might be more relevant, if we take one year away from another we get 66, 26, 2.

Of course these dates may have no more relevance than the names of the people they relate to, perhaps toby litt just wanted us to realise the connection to lewis carroll and anne frank (the girls diary, slice being imprisoned) and how much he loved nick drake

[veebee]

Ha! I was editing while you were posting. That's funny!

[Faustus]

haha.

the other thing then is looking into the names. Is O Jacomo a nick drake lyric? there's about 4 million entries on google and no matter how i refine the search I can't seem to find anything relevant.

Lisa, Ray, Lynn
Mary Jane, Betty, Joey

Elisabeth, Raymond, ?lynn?
Mary Jane, Elisabeth/Bethany, Joseph

just thinking out loud , Mary Jane's been mentioned as beign important before hasn't she? I can't remember by who, but I don't think anyone found out anything. I looked all over for myspace/facebook/beebo etc etc profiles for her, but mary jane's a more common name than you think :/

[veebee]