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Soobs, one of the commentors on the Live Crime Report, is googled as this:

http://coalitionofcrimebloggers.ning.com/profile/Soobs1

Either a very intricately done ARG profile or this is all real. I really don't know.

The True Crime Report, and now Soobs blog, look way too ARGish to be real blogs. If this is as big as it looks, it's weird there hasn't been more interest generated.

*EDIT* I'm clicking through links from Soobs' page. Just came to her only friend, Nancy Reilly. There's a link to www.policepulse.com. It's also in the same format. This looks strangely like the blogs from Perplex City. I think there's something here... but on the other hand it's soooooooo detailed an incredible amount of planning would have had to go into it with a large team. So hard to tell.

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[Wulf74]

I received a reply back from Port, about the emails we originally received - but it was blank..? I'm thinking it was simply a mistake.

I posted a comment to his blog, asking specifically about the last line "Jenny should have been my salvation." I doubt it will be posted on the website, just because none of them have been posted, but perhaps he'll respond to it in the next post.

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[Wulf74]

Wow - things are getting stranger and stranger. I just got an email from Port:

[ProjectXI]

Just so I've got this straight:

He sent you an email which quoted what he claimed was an email from you?

And I've read Watership Down, some years ago. I don't see how the second two could come from it... I'll see if I can find my copy.

[Wulf74]

[ProjectXI]

Right. Got my copy.

So the bracketed phrases are from the epigrams.

Beanflower passage is Book 1, ch 9: The Crow and the Beanfield. Also from Robert Browning's De Gustibus, end of the first portion. http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/browning-robert/de-gustibus-106962.html

Fortinbras passage is Book 1, ch 4: The Departure. Also from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Horatio says it nearish the end of scene I. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html


Don Alfonso passage is Book 1, ch 15: The Story of the King's Lettuce. Also from da Ponte's Cosi fan Tutte (which was written by Mozart). The lines are from the beginning of Scene 16, which happens to be the last scene of Act 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Così_fan_tutte

Okay, so we have passages from the end of the opening movement of their body of work, perhaps? I'll do some digging on Konig Darzin. I don't immediately see any relevance to 9, 4, and 15, but they might come up later.

Edit--Darzin is also from Watership Down. An evil king that the trickster rabbit of myth defeats in the chapter which the Browning epigram opens.

Edit^2--So Konig means King. King Darzin code. Or King King code, since Darzin is a king. Port King? Does PK have any German heritage? And how'd he get the name Port, anyway? Port wine? Port v. Starboard? Port in a storm? No ideas here, just free associating. Maybe one of my pinballs will hit something.

Edit^3--Just sent him an e-mail asking him about his name. Hoping it might drop a clue that helps us break the code.

[Wulf74]

I just got another reply from Port. From the tone of the email, it almost makes me question whether he's OOG game. Almost.

[ProjectXI]

Weird. No response from Kelvinator via PM. Yeah, I'd say let's back off of Mr. Portnoy King, unless you get another response from him about Queenie. Someone to add to our list of characters? I've already tried Port Queen on blogspot, along with a bunch of other combos--beanking (which is kind of a neat coincidence, but definitely OOG), bellaking, etcetera.

Wulf, you seem to be "chosen" somehow--you're the only one he responds too, and you're also the one that got the code e-mail blamed on him. If there's going to be a single point of contact, it's you. If Maury ever responds to me, I can take care of him, but I'm thinking for now we just let it chill.

And maybe bang our heads against the Konig Darzin Code?

Edit--Oh, and on Jennie being his salvation? Seems a pretty standard literary/psychological trope to me--he couldn't save his own daughter, so he tried to save that one, and failed as well. He's failed to save at least three women: the motorcycle accident, Bean, and Jennie. Then, he failed to save his marriage.

On Bean--death by blunt force trauma to the head? Isn't it a concussion that makes your pupils blow up like that?

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I honestly have no idea how to progress here. This is just bizarre.

[ProjectXI]

New post, so FRANKIE SAY RELAX. This is still playable. If Mr. King were really worried about all the attention he was getting, he would've stopped writing.

And re: Portnoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portnoy's_Complaint

Ethics vs. Sex?

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portnoy's complaint seems to fit the bill, re:

[ProjectXI]

Since nobody said they did it, I went ahead and dropped jjdemolaySPLATgmail.com a line: