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[Question][Spec] Sylvia Plath Poetry
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hamatoyoshi wrote:
Until this showed up in Puzzles, I entirely ignored this thread because I dislike the poetry of Sylvia Plath.

It's too whiny and self-loathing for me.

While it seems unrelated as of yet, I bet you guys researching it know that she killed herself in 1963 by wrapping her head in a cloth and putting her head in a gas oven.

I just did a Google on that. Of note, but probably entirely irrelevant, she made her first attempt to kill herself on August 24, 1953.

http://www.neuroticpoets.com/plath/




whoah whoah whoah... so if you check out the blog, under august 24th, it lists things that happened on august 24th. here it is:

Dana on July 30th wrote:

August 24
Aug 24, 1995 Microsoft inflicts Windows 95 on an unsuspecting world.

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I went hiking in Claremont Canyon yesterday to clear my head. Three hours, six miles, and 1000 ft elevation change later, I was sweaty, sunburnt and still fixated on the bug and its countdown. While up there, didn't pay enough attention to the trail... scratched my palms slipping on loose gravel, more than once. Now it hurts to type.
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Aug 24, 1456 Printing completed on the Gutenberg Bible.
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You know the special dates that mean something to you, but not everyone else? (For me, March 21 will always be the day I got called to the Vice Principal's office for cutting 8th-grade chorus. I think it's because I have a permanently ingrained mental image of the yellow hall pass that was sent from the VP?s office to collect me.)
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Aug 24, 79 AD Mt. Vesuvius erupts for the first time, destroying Pompei.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

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(tries to stop thinking about it)

Time for some updates:

Aunt Margaret wants you to know how touched she is by the flood of support we've gotten on this blog and via email. So touched that she wants to mix a new flavor of her honey in honor of you guys ? a black button sage variety, but I'm not sure she knows what to call it yet.

Warm fuzzies aside... the hijacked countdown has definitely gotten under Aunt M's skin. "Strong intrusive inclination" gives her the "heeby jeebies" (her words). She asked me if "the medium will metastasize" means that her computer is going to explode. I'm pretty sure it doesn't, but unfortunately for now, I don't have a more optimistic interpretation to offer her.

I hate that Aunt M is losing sleep over this.

Or that I am, for that matter. (checks timestamp. Sigh.)

I?d feel a lot more comfortable if I understood its motives better?

At least I now know from Marc (first of several) that the image glitches are caused by embedded texts of origins unknown. Not sure how they fit together.

I'm guessing from the some of the emails I've received that at least a handful of you are chewing on this problem in real-time somewhere...? Is there a channel I can direct other people to, so they can sync up with you?

P.S. A lot of you have sent emails asking for personal information that might be relevant to the problems at I Love Bees. To be honest, I'm still figuring out how much I feel comfortable sharing at this point. I hope you can be patient with me.



posted by Dana at 7/20/2004 06:07:28 AM


extremely interesting. the counter on the site is counting down to august 24th, 2004 on the EXACT second. I received my time under the Time and Date settings from microsoft.com, and the counter matches up with this exactly. So I'm almost positive that this is from microsoft.

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 		Trout Sorry-dude-with-the-long-name, but you're reading page one of a novel currently turned to page 347. This has been seen and noticed the first day the blog was up. Sorry. Please search, and check the wiki (bees.netninja.com/wiki) before you post. Thanks for your participation though.
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 		August 24
But still, August 24 was the first time she tried to kill herself? If that's the same just by pure chance, that's pretty incredible. I'm almost convinced there is something there.

Or maybe I just want something new to happen. Maybe I'm just tired.

Heh.

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 		However, again, I have to applaud the originator of this thread... I'm not a poetry person typically, so I had not know of Sylvia Plath, but man, if this is coincidence, what a coincedence! Just in reading the bees sequence, I totally get that spooked out feeling. I mean, check out this stanza:
Quote:

I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.

The box is only temporary.


I know it's not the specific box we've heard of, and its all tenuous, but like I said, if a coincidence, WHAT A COINCIDENCE, ya know?

(*Edit - has anyone put up a page on the Wiki to discuss this? I haven't looked yet)
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 		Re: August 24
IronmanX74 wrote:
But still, August 24 was the first time she tried to kill herself? If that's the same just by pure chance, that's pretty incredible. I'm almost convinced there is something there.

I actually like this run of Plath intrigue, although I'm not sure where it's leading, or how it's going to lead us to another puzzle (though there's no harm in researching, providing you've got the stomach for Plath's wrought prose).

The August 24th thing, though, I'm pretty sure is just a coincidence. Plath was a Big Deal - even more so to Livejournal-style oh-man-my-life-sucks girls - and her life's been catalogued in such detail that I'm pretty sure you could find a coincidence for any date you care to name. Her first suicide attempt isn't even something I can imagine tying in particularly well with the story - unless The Widow's going to try and kill all the world's lacrimose, self-indulgent, morbid wannabes come the 24th.

In which case, I say we do everything in our power to help her out.

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unless The Widow's going to try and kill all the world's lacrimose, self-indulgent, morbid wannabes come the 24th.

In which case, I say we do everything in our power to help her out.


ROTFL!!! Laughing
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Dorkmaster wrote:
Trout Sorry-dude-with-the-long-name, but you're reading page one of a novel currently turned to page 347. This has been seen and noticed the first day the blog was up. Sorry. Please search, and check the wiki (bees.netninja.com/wiki) before you post. Thanks for your participation though.


Well, ahve you noticed, if you synchronize your clock (if you ahve windows) with time.windows.com, once a minute goes down on the timer, one minutes goe sup on your clock. Sorry if someone noticed that already, it's hard to search for stuff like that.

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 		Yes. Well, if we assume the software running the server is running windows (Which it is) then the stimer would of been started by that timer, and match up with any syncronized clocks, wouldn't it?

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Exige wrote:
Dorkmaster wrote:
Trout Sorry-dude-with-the-long-name, but you're reading page one of a novel currently turned to page 347. This has been seen and noticed the first day the blog was up. Sorry. Please search, and check the wiki (bees.netninja.com/wiki) before you post. Thanks for your participation though.


Well, ahve you noticed, if you synchronize your clock (if you ahve windows) with time.windows.com, once a minute goes down on the timer, one minutes goe sup on your clock. Sorry if someone noticed that already, it's hard to search for stuff like that.


The timer works off of your system clock. It is a simple javascript counter. If your system clock is off by 23 min, so will the counter be off.

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 		so much trout......................
as has been posted here a GAGILLION times, the countdowntochina.js script pulls its source time from your local machine, not the server, which is why it changes if you change your clock.. no big deal


and exige, please check for typos in your posts, its really hard to read when you typ elik tihs

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 		August 24
Didn't know where to post it, but I will here since we have been talking about it.

Got this website here that has things and births that have happened on August 24. Haven't really looked it over, but maybe there will be something there?

http://www.fact-index.com/a/au/august_24.html

I want to contribute somehow! Drool
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 		this thread is off topic, try to get back on sylvia plath, or post in another thread

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 		Well actually it's veering back toward the topic, because part of the Sylvia Plath connection could be the date of her suicide. So a next logical think to ask it - what other things happened on August 24 that are hinted/used in ilovebees? It may be just coincidence or clever layering of more August 24 hints, but it's worth thinking about.
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aliendial wrote:
Well actually it's veering back toward the topic, because part of the Sylvia Plath connection could be the date of her suicide. So a next logical think to ask it - what other things happened on August 24 that are hinted/used in ilovebees? It may be just coincidence or clever layering of more August 24 hints, but it's worth thinking about.


I think The Birthday Paradox starts coming into play here somehow.

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 		Agreed. August 24th isn't even when she successfully committed suicide -- just when she tried it the first time. Doesn't seem that significant. (Although this first attempt resulted in the hospital stay that inspired her Bell Jar.)

I suppose the Operator's plight might seem superficially similar to waking up in the hospital after a failed suicide attempt. Maybe if we learn that the crash landing was deliberate, the August 24th connection will be worth pursuing, but for the moment it seems coincidental.
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