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[RING][EMAIL] Eli Hunt, March 16th
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 		[RING][EMAIL] Eli Hunt, March 16th
Just got into my inbox... it comes with an image that I'm posting now.

Eli Hunt wrote:

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:51 PM, FMG xxx@xxx wrote:
Dear Mr. Hunt,

We've found something that you may want to look, Ariadne has found a piece of the Codex, maybe you can tell us more about that. You can look at the pages here: http://forums.findthelostring.com/thread/1047

Yours,

FMG.

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Dear FMG,

I am impressed with how quickly you and your friends have recovered the first two chapters of the Lost Ring Codex.

I have been waiting a very long time to read the second set of pages. As I look upon them now, I am filled with wonder… and gratitude to you, for sharing them with me.

But I am also filled with trepidation.

By now, you certainly will have guessed that it is no coincidence that I have settled here in Cardiff, where the first chapter was found.

The existence of the Lost Ring Codex is no surprise to me. In fact, as you may have already surmised, my research for The Lost Games has been guided for years by what I was able to glean from that first chapter.

But I did not want to collect the other chapters… not after what I saw.

The visions described in the first chapter, the visions that tormented Micha… I have seen the same things. I saw them when I went into the labyrinth, back when the agonothetai were not numbered as 696, but rather 695…

The visions felt more like memories. They were memories of a different version of my own life, a life in which my actions had consequences I could not bear.

It is hard to explain in words. I never suffered from amnesia, as our friends Ariadne, Diego, Markus, Noriko, Meihui, and Lucie do. But I think I must know what it would be like to wake up from amnesia. I think I know what it is like to suddenly remember your own past, a past you had no idea belonged to you. A past you desperately wish didn't belong to you, a past you wish you could erase even as you have no idea how you created it...

Well, it may be too late to slow your momentum. And I fear the time has passed to ask you all to guard the secret with me.

But perhaps the Ancient Greeks had it right. Perhaps the best place to hide the truth is in plain sight. After all, who will take us seriously as we chase our urban legends online? The Internet is full of such legends…. Who will mind us as we craft our own?

So perhaps 2008 is the year the recovery will finally happen. The year of the agonothetia696. Are they really the ones who can help our world remember who we are?

Sincerely yours,

Eli Hunt

P.S. Many of you have expressed interest in the origins of http://164.109.150.213/. Below, I share with you something I found years ago in the national library in Athens. If you and your friends are truly meant to be a part of this mission, then I am certain that together you will be able to understand these notes. If not, then perhaps we are not fated to be allies…


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 		Double posting to upload the image...
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 		I got the same email, only mine started out slightly different:

Eli wrote:
Dear Dante,

I am impressed with how quickly you and your friends have mastered the commands our little "House of Salomon". How quickly you have recovered the first two chapters of the Lost Ring Codex!


The rest of the email is the same.

Also, I got a different picture, showing the cover of the book:
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 		For those of you who like a little light reading, Project Gutenberg has New Atlantis (but not Wisdom of the Ancients) online for free download in three different formats.
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 		The Multiverse!! *plays Twilight Zone themesong* The yes/no circles sound like the Schroedinger's Cat theory of Quantum Mechanics, where 2 universes live simultaneously.

The Navel of the world is described here, among other places:
http://www.greecetaxi.gr/index/delphi.html

"The shrine of Apollon at Delphi has a stone depression that is called the Navel of the World; the depression is covered by a stone known as the Omphalos, which literally means Navel."

I think The New Atlantis and Wisdom of the Ancients (Francis Bacon) are on Google Books (maybe Gutenberg)...

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 		Sorry, HHM--Didn't see your post. Both books (along with all Bacon's books) are linked here:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/baconbib.htm

Any philosophers out there?

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 		Wow, that's cool.
I love reading!

I'll post here my notes.

Update: The books's begin has a similiar aspect of our story - multilinguality.
(And - of course, the end of the book has NO chance to have a similiarity with our adventure):

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
[THE REST WAS NOT PERFECTED.]


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Elizabeth123 wrote:
Ah...So that's the House of Salomon. So this means Eli built the site...

Sorry, HHM--Didn't see your post. Both books (along with all Bacon's books) are linked here:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/baconbib.htm

Any philosophers out there?


No need to be sorry. Smile Ooo, I like this luminarium site.
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 		Eli's book image
I got the same e-mail. Mine has the title page of the book.
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 		Looking at that handwritings, there is something like binary code 01011000, and that "no" and "yes" riddle seems also to be a reference to this code.

This code is for alphanumeric "X"

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 		Eli sent me similar email, and mentioned that blindfolded wheelbarrow races were the least of his worries. Also: book 4
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 		OK, let's summarize:

Wave #1:
01011000

Wave #2:
1101101 (?)

Wave # 3
10010110

Wave # 4
11010101

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 		Wave #2 is described on the back of my title page entry. I think it's 1101101

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jasper wrote:
Wave #2 is described on the back of my title page entry. I think it's 1101101

Thanx!
I also see it, a little bit irritating, since the other codes are eight-digit.

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 		Okay, I understand now how the diagrams are meant to be read. This may be hard to interpret, but I couldn't figure out how else to write it:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Start at the top--For example in waveform 1 we have: Yes and No
Follow the arrows: Yes becomes Yes and No, and No becomes No and Yes
The yes's and no's together become the 2 no's at the bottom.

The binary code then matches, reading left to right, with 1's being yes's and 0's being no's.


No idea what this all means, in the end, but at least I understand how the binary code was derived. It works for all the samples we have.

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