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alphonse · Guest

Yolk's on me...

By googling the 'Last Statue The cost of Admission is your Mind',
and hitting the "cache" mode, more weird stuff about this whatever
it is.

I remember Jayne Dennis from the Children's Tylenol commercial.

Or maybe it was Jane McGonigal--how soon we forget...

**Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:43 pm

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

So the Pynchonopolis blog lies there since April with nothing but one link posted and then today suddenly comes to life. So hello PM's or authors or whoever!

There is some puzzley looking stuff:

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:07 am

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

So Pessl's book has a plotline about trying to prove a suicide was not suicide. Her next book, says wiki:

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:38 am

alphonse · Guest

From ch 2 of the Last Statue

"...coming out of the South end of Blackstone, take the forking
path toward Sulpher Springs...follow Quicksilver Ridge Creek on
the way out to the salt-flats, way down in Furnace Canyon...take the peacock trail out past the Cinnabar Ranch up on Red Crown Hill...
should bring you right into White Rock, where you need to look up
Leo Green at the Red Lion--he'll take you to Ruth the Gleaner and
Sally Manders who will in turn introduce you to Joachim & Boaz--
pillers of the community..."

black stones
sulpher
quicksilver
salt
furnaces
peacocks
cinnebar
red crowns
white rocks
green & red lions

are all alchemistic terms--ARG seems kind of simplistic
in this context doncha think?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:00 am

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:13 am

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

played out already?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:59 am

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

The two sets of "clues" don't completely match up. Here is from kidkenoma:

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:20 pm

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

So I found the full text of Liber 777 by Aleister Crowley and it is basically listings of all sorts of correspondences between places on the Tree of Life and planets, elements, colors, gods, and just about anything else you could imagine. I don't have any idea if these correspondences are unique to Crowley or sort of accepted by occult practitioners in general, but some of the correspondences listed on our two web pages can be found there.

Generally speaking, there are ten sephirah (I was saying sephiroths for the plural but I am getting educated here) and 22 paths among them. Easier to understand with pictures, so you can look at the pdf linked above.

So the Tree of Life itself might be the maze, but that is as far as I can figure out.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:43 pm

birdmadgirl123 · Boot Joined: 19 Sep 2009 Posts: 39

Hello, Steganonsaurus Rex!

I'm pleased to see The Last Statue receiving some attention, although I'm not convinced that it's an alternate reality game of the kind that is normally played in this kind of forum.

The first five chapters (so far) of TLS are a lightly fictionalized account of the intersection of occult and cultural and political forces in post WWII America. If you aren't familiar with this subject (and I certainly was not!) may I suggest some background reading:

The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry
The Family by Ed Sanders
Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda
Sinister Forces: The Manson Secret by Peter Levenda
Inside Laurel Canyon web series by Dave McGowan (http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/)

It is unfortunate that a lot of work already done on The Last Statue in the comments section of the "dead blog" aforementioned has been lost or is hard to access.

But I agree completely with this assessment: TLS--and all of its appendages and forked paths--is a "densely packed labyrinth designed to change the world." It's philosophic depth of reference is remarkable (if you're impressed by that kind of thing).

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:02 pm

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:16 pm

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

Hmm, every time a new person posts, the Pynchonopolis blog updates.

So we have a very short one titled "Precognition":

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:21 pm

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

I am having real issues with the forum right now...the columns getting messed up, unable to scroll correctly. Sorry.

so anyway what I was trying to say is that obviously each of these "outlines" corresponds with the chapters. I don't see how they match up but that is what the posts are implying.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:22 pm

birdmadgirl123 · Boot Joined: 19 Sep 2009 Posts: 39

Hi, Steggy (may I call you Steggy?):

Was I involved before? Well, I found it through the "dead blog", and found it fascinating (still do), and posted a lot of comments there.

Do I know who's behind it? I wish! Very Happy

How do you "play" it? "this is not a game" is the best I can muster.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:25 pm

birdmadgirl123 · Boot Joined: 19 Sep 2009 Posts: 39

Yeah, it's like the forum is cursed! I didn't mean to submit so abruptly...

What I mean by "this is not a game" is that I don't think the author's point is to have those who wish to interact with TLS, etc. follow from a point A to a point B and so forth until a big reveal.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:31 pm

Tikkun Olam · Guest

Where, if you don't mind my asking, is the name "Theresa Duncan" on either "kidkenoma" or "untermuyer pages?

Am I like dim, or just underinformed?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:19 pm