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[DISCUSSION] Eva's Journal
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CaptKing
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 		[DISCUSSION] Eva's Journal
So, for those of you who have gone, or will visit soon, lets discuss everything dealing with Eva's journal and the various other items left for us.

Did you find anything interesting? Cryptic? Alluding to another clue left somewhere in the city?

However, please refrain from posting photos of the actual journal, or else Kelvin will flip a bitch Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:59 pm
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 		Eva mentioned visiting a library on the third floor of Dr. Hewitt's building. I visited 580 Cal 3rd floor today and found:

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No library. A company that makes books called Blurb was there. Their tag line "What will your next book be?" was posted just after you exit the elevators. I didn't stay to talk to anybody there because it looked like a business rather than something that was open to the public. Probably a dead end.



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 		ok i'm in the process of transcribing the journal so because the process is slow i've only read up to what i've been writing down.

when we were at the prelinger library we flipped through it to take pictures and at the very end the English stops and a very strange loopy language begins and continues for a good 6 pages. I'd swear I'd seen it before so when i got home i asked around to a few of my friends. It was just my good luck that the first friend i showed a sample of the text to knew what it was right away. it's the same language used in Luigi Serafini's fake encyclopedia called the Codex Seraphinianus. Unfortunately the Codex is as yet untranslatable.

since there's no translation to the words i figured maybe the book was a clue itself. i looked online and found the closest public library with the book was the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. I went today to follow the lead and after a lot of bureaucracy (they take GREAT care that their books are handled well. i had to go through 3 check points and 2 forms filled out before i was allowed to even be in the room where you ask for the book) and about 30 minutes of waiting i was finally able to take a look at their copy...

nothing... i thought with this much security maybe my initial idea of margin writings would be wrong but there wasn't even a letter of bit of paper stuck between the pages. I think that, unless the book exists somewhere else and i was looking in the wrong place, that this is a dead end. Perhaps the language signifies that she had crossed over into elsewhere and had gained deeper understanding of the Codex. Oh well. it was cool seeing the Codex up close though.

i found some meta information along the way. i'll update the thread with it now. the important thing is the backward writing we found on two of the pages aren't anything important.
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 		Codex Seraphinianus
I have a copy of the book..its fairly rare.

Maybe, I'll bring it along when I visit the Prelinger with Tungsten next Wednesday.

Unless they point to a PARTICULAR copy of it somewhere in the journal, its prob. a dead end.

I think your idea that she's crossed over is on the nose.

Also, with the book publisher, I think it's just a way of making people aware of cool things around them.

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 		Re: Codex Seraphinianus
crumblydonut wrote:
I have a copy of the book..its fairly rare.

Maybe, I'll bring it along when I visit the Prelinger with Tungsten next Wednesday.


I wonder if, possibly, the Prelinger has a copy. Might be worth checking, just in case, as ever said, something might await there... but more likely, and the easiest explanation- is she's in elsewhere..

d/s

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 		The Prelinger Archives was established 2004 so i think it might be hoping for too much to think there's a relevant copy there.
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Everfalling wrote:
The Prelinger Archives was established 2004 so i think it might be hoping for too much to think there's a relevant copy there.


right.. i thought about that too.. Eva wouldn't have been able to visit.. however, since there's no library on the 3rd floor of Dr Hewitt's building anymore.. those books had to go somewhere, right? It's a wild guess.. Maybe that's why Kelvin put it there, perhaps he knows something..

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 		strange loops
untranslatable text
Considering the difficulty in being about to translate the strange loopy writing at the end of Eva's journal, then we cannot do much to pursue that avenue.

Curious to note, however, is the huge gaps in the pages that were not scanned and shared.
Are there vital clues in the pages not posted on Kelvin's rememberingeva.com or are the posted scanned pages the key pages that we best know and understand?

In other words, given the partial posting of only selected pages from Eva' Journal, are we to attune to the pages that were posted or seek out and read the pages that were not posted?

What about the notes written in French? There was a quote in French and a few notes written in French. Are they or are they not important?

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 		French.
First two:

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apres reflexion, je ne dis que je viens faire une decouverte absolument incroyable avec cette historie de reve eveille

Rough babelfish:

after reflection, I do not say that I come to make an absolutely incredible discovery with this history of dream wakes up

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le problème à le fois politique, ethique, social et philosophique
qui se [pod] à nous aujourd'hui n'est pas d'enaryer de libérer l'individu

de l'état et ses institutions, mais de nous libérer, nous, de l'état et du type
d'individualisation qui s'y nattache.

Il nous faut promouvois de nouvelles formes de subjectivite.

Paraphrase of part of this excerpt from Foucault's essay Why Study Power: The Question of the Subject

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are. We have to imagine and to build up what we could be to get rid of this kind of political "double bind," which is the simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures. The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state, and from the state's institutions, but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.

[see http://www.cross-x.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1742613]

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Also, the figure with the head in the wall (two pages after first French bit) reminds me of Mark Jenkins, or specifically, "Embed":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_jenkins



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