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[Blackllama79]

Phone number

[notgordian]

The blank part was "Thank you, Franz Kafka" - it was the attribution for the quote.

[whitellama]

What I think

[notgordian]

whitellama: the phone pad codes enaxor is referring to involves writing down the numbers as if you were sending a text message. 7 would be either PQRS, 5 would be JKL, 3 would be DEF, etc.

With some lucky guessing / familiarity with the keypad letters, you get the message she generated.

[whitellama]

Oh, thanks. That makes a lot of sense now. XD

[OCTAF1SH]

Hi whitellama,

I sent Ruthie an email earlier this evening introducing myself as a new residenr/keen reader interested in joining the book club. Am yet to hear a response. Also, after reading the howl page, I sent another asking if they had a copy of lady of the lake, but am waiting for a response to this too.

As for the cypher, I realise I wasn't the person who posted, but a game I kinda played a few years ago had a code using a phone keypad. The numbers on the late notices don't have any 1s or 0s, and the third contained an apostrophe. The keypad on a mobile phone usually has 1 as punctuation, and 0 as a space. Ignoring the apostrophe (just a clue to the fact the numbers represent words), If you imagine pressing the member numbers into a phone with predictive text, the phone would come out with the message enaxor posted under the spoiler cover.

Hope that makes sense.

Yeah, I agree the dates are somehow significant, not sure how yet. Also, the howl message dates (from memory, the 2nd Feb, and one week later, and finally 13/2 line up roughly with the dates in peg's blog about her husband's funny turn. Doubt he wrote the howl message though, as he took peg to a motel Valentine's weekend, and the way peg talks about "the library click" seems to preclude her husband being part of it.


EDIT: sorry notgordian, didn't see you'd beaten me to it!

[enaxor]

Re: What I think

[whitellama]

Email

[enaxor]

Here's the message you hear when you call the ST Library phone number.

[OCTAF1SH]

Thanks enaxor, good to be here!
Been doing some more snooping, and this may or may not be anything, but in peg's blog, The latest entry with Fred's snowman. Does anyone else see something odd about the right hand snowman? Looks like it has a real person's head.

Maybe I'm barking mad, but it could be significant. Working from my phone at the moment, so can't find out if it's Steg.....while I think of it, anyone know a good steganography program for mac?

[amandel]

Yup, TY, Enaxor. You're like the Jessica Fletcher of Snow Town. Being lazy I whack in phone keypad ciphers here:

http://www.phonespell.org/

[another_pilot_dwn]

Hi all!

@Octo. that's a good point, the whole thing is odd to me. i want to know if there is anything with the lake photo as well. she said the one with the post currently is much better than the one she originally posted.

the other odd things are the comments about "on the 8's" in the weather posts and the the picture of the two ladies from the library itself. and when has there ever been a waiting list for a book club?

this week they are reading lord of the flies and are devouring it *eewww*

:edit: oh @whitellama. to back up this theory, its 1811, 1911, 2011. So every century somethings afoot in this sleepy little town

:edit pt deux: ok . call me crazy, but i swear something is layered with the snowman picture. can some one plz look at it, i dont have any software to make it go neg or anything!

[whitellama]

On the 8s

[luci]

Charles Gulliffer Howl

[luci]

Library book club