tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081632199587963712024-02-02T00:43:47.453-09:00QUATERNITYblogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-59405806314732237812023-02-07T07:16:00.010-09:002023-02-12T04:20:11.722-09:00ellerYqueen, or why not a yod will be left away <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;">to Danny and Manny</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_Ma5aPnm9mzxAbgYjy-SdCDaNC16wY6NhyPNwBA_OaSn3qoGW4Tbwc0kj3KmmGy_WKNfiLD03p9MQsalGhWcOPO5ESEL9AbBy6vtPYoYv8jLTKAj7RdvYhuwLy_gi3PObgHqLDQk8CUqO-4O71MKEYPTyzLj7Wj3SYuo_q4nDVhuorChzbHZnNLYuQ/s240/Pic_EQ_bureau.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="170" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_Ma5aPnm9mzxAbgYjy-SdCDaNC16wY6NhyPNwBA_OaSn3qoGW4Tbwc0kj3KmmGy_WKNfiLD03p9MQsalGhWcOPO5ESEL9AbBy6vtPYoYv8jLTKAj7RdvYhuwLy_gi3PObgHqLDQk8CUqO-4O71MKEYPTyzLj7Wj3SYuo_q4nDVhuorChzbHZnNLYuQ/s1600/Pic_EQ_bureau.jpg" width="170" /></a></div> Ellery Queen. They were two cousins, born Daniel Nathan and Manford Lepofsky in 1905. At their majority, they chose the names Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee.<br /> In 1929, they began to write crime stories using the alias Ellery Queen. These are the adventures of amateur detective Ellery Queen, who is too a detective stories writer.. The name of this detective appears in an only novel, Dave Dirk.<br /><br /> Ellery Queen became a prestigious signature, but some problems arose between the two cousins. Dannay conceived detailed plots, then it was up to Lee to give them flesh. The more it went, the more Dannay wished to give his plots a metaphysical dimension, and Lee did not agree at all with that. He was so reluctant with the plot of <i>Ten Days' Wonder</i> that it took three years to publish the novel in 1948.<br /><br /> I suspect Dannay to have afterwards concealed his intentions, so that Ellery Queen could publish a novel every year. Yet the problems remained, and <i>The Finishing Stroke</i> was announced as the last Ellery Queen in 1958.<br /><br /> Lee found the signature Ellery Queen was still bankable, so he engaged ghostwriters to publish several crime stories that had nothing to do with the detective Ellery.<br /> Dannay then felt himself free to publish a new adventure of Ellery, with the help of Theodore Sturgeon instead of Lee.<br /> <i>The Player on the Other Side</i> (1963) is no less than a chess game between God and Evil on the chessboard of York Square, a property where live four cousins York in four houses at the corners of the Square, each house being surrounded by a tower. All the characters echo to chess pieces, and so do Ellery and his father (quuens).<br /> Three cousins are killed, after the reception of cards printed with one letter, J, H, W.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwnv3qXgJ9nq979bmWlfaRARICZauBJMrjFy1Q7iPtaqz4jWV91tXFwCkU0tfNjuqr-9sxaf7XzOwyXEHjuysmHlbFQuthj_AMGye0SR4UJVOeu3FDX4ookAH0H1CCIjbmliHONydli7s/s1600-h/jhwhdeutsch.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262317629222380770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwnv3qXgJ9nq979bmWlfaRARICZauBJMrjFy1Q7iPtaqz4jWV91tXFwCkU0tfNjuqr-9sxaf7XzOwyXEHjuysmHlbFQuthj_AMGye0SR4UJVOeu3FDX4ookAH0H1CCIjbmliHONydli7s/s200/jhwhdeutsch.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 160px; margin: 5px 0px 2px 8px; width: 100px;" /></a> This seems to accuse the handyman, John Henry Walt, but Ellery finds he's just a pawn, following blindly the written orders of someone signing Y.<br /> Another letter signed Y arrives, ordering Walt to send the last cousin a card printed with a H, then to kill him.<br /><br /> The key comes in last chapter, <i>Checkmate</i>. Walt suffers from multiple personality disorder. He is too Yahweh, or JHWH, the vengeful God of the Old Testament, and another personality is Nathaniel York, the York legitimate heir, despoiled by the cousins.<br /> If Lee had difficulties with other Dannay's plots, he sure wouldn't have completed this one, peculiarly if he'd noticed the killing of cousins by 'Nathaniel'. Lee knew perfectly his cousin was born Daniel Nathan.<br /><br /> I'll try to show the themes of <i>The Player on the Other Side</i> were already present in previous works. These themes are.<br />- religious pattern, notably concerning the tetragrammaton JHWH;<br />- a couple of characters associated in an enterprise, one claiming he's the boss while the other one has a prominent role; in private, Lee claimed Dannay's plots were ridiculous, and that only his writing skill made the success of Ellery Queen; <br />- personal involvement, what is called 'biotext'; it concerns here essentially Dannay's birthdate, on Oct 20<sup>th</sup>, 1905, 10/20/05.<br /><br /> I'll begin with this last point, and something that looks quite meaningful:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCr3frKN80mbNDBRUfM_U-yRPnVuUjdi2nT-hHlplZ-mJMNfFRJInkzqEtoOqa74yskHDpdpS2DiOxuE0LLH8cqElnCmKmxMOt5pSbpd47L3Nt5C5jXx_oNfmMLZdvW87clkgSsPDobI/s361/egyptian-T.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCr3frKN80mbNDBRUfM_U-yRPnVuUjdi2nT-hHlplZ-mJMNfFRJInkzqEtoOqa74yskHDpdpS2DiOxuE0LLH8cqElnCmKmxMOt5pSbpd47L3Nt5C5jXx_oNfmMLZdvW87clkgSsPDobI/s200/egyptian-T.JPG" width="121" /></a>- the 5<sup>th</sup> Queen is <i>The Egyptian Cross Mystery</i> (1932); it has 30 chapters, 20+10, and this Egyptian cross is a letter T, the 20<sup>th</sup> letter as it will be explicit in another novel.<br />- the 10<sup>th</sup> Queen is <i>Halfway House</i> (1936); it has 5 chapters, and all chapters have tautogram titles, <i>The Tragedy, The Trail, </i><i>The Trial, </i><i>The Trap, The Truth</i>. 5 chapters, 10 times 20<sup>th</sup> letter.<br />- the 20<sup>th</sup> Queen is <i>Double, Double</i> (1950); it has 20 chapters; 20 is the double of 10, double of 5.<br />- the 26<sup>th</sup> Queen is <i>The Finishing Stroke</i> (1958); it has 20 chapters, and the enigma is based on the Hebrew alphabet, more exactly on the semitic letters which have equivalents in our alphabet, i.e. 20 letters. In the book, the detective writer Ellery says he's written 30 novels. This might be understood as the 26 Queens, plus 4 novels the cousins wrote in 1932-33 using the alias Barnaby Ross.<br /><br /> Is there an allusion to Dannay's birthdate in <i>The Player on the Other Side</i>? Maybe, as J.H. Walt is born on April 20<sup>th</sup>, 1924, which Ellery points as being Easter sunday.<br /> April 20<sup>th</sup> is the opposite of October 20<sup>th</sup> on the circle of the year, and it was too the 35<sup>th</sup> birthday of Adolf Hitler. At this time he was in jail, writing <i>Mein Kampf</i>.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yCWuHK3mPVy1yA0mQOb8ORfReL3ZV6CU7cGl1EDbsP-0e5WNXEAZALqklBUS0wLElJ7A5X5F4eYcHpLUnQSvkDbq4Iy-a9p5w1-nphNrP3Bu3spuTPkw47WtESxbP7iXjrlZdCVqyCc1/s1600/8day.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yCWuHK3mPVy1yA0mQOb8ORfReL3ZV6CU7cGl1EDbsP-0e5WNXEAZALqklBUS0wLElJ7A5X5F4eYcHpLUnQSvkDbq4Iy-a9p5w1-nphNrP3Bu3spuTPkw47WtESxbP7iXjrlZdCVqyCc1/s200/8day.JPG" width="132" /></a> The next <a href="https://quaternity4.blogspot.com/2011/04/3-queen_04.html" target="_blank">Queen</a>, <i>And On The Eight Day</i>... (1964), shows Ellery investigating during the Holy Week of 1944 in a community issued from <i>The Deas Sea Scrolls</i>, that a misunderstanding has led to worship <i>Mein Kampf</i> instead of the Bible.<br /><br /> <i>The Player on the Other Side</i> is the 27<sup>th</sup> Queen, but the 26<sup>th</sup> adventure of Ellery, as <i>The Glass Village</i> (1956) is a one-shot. Some Queen novels mention Hebrew words and gematria, seeing a meaning in the sum of values of letters composing Hebrew words.<br /> The best known case is the tetragrammaton<br />J H W H = 10+5+6+5 = 26.<br /> Grammatically, letter W is a copulative, meaning 'and', so the tetragrammaton might be read as<br />10 = 5 and 5, or<br />10, 5 and 5 = 20, <br />possibly meaningful for someone born on 10/20/05.<br /><br /> The square murders JHWH make easily think of the losange murders JHVH in Borges' <i>Death and the Compass</i>, and it happens that Dannay was probably the first man to read the English translation of this short story.<br /> Dannay created in 1941 <i>Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</i> (EQMM, still running on), and he was deeply involved in it (Lee absolutely not). In 1947 Anthony Boucher translated some of Borges' short stories and proposed them to Dannay. <i>Death and the Compass</i> was obviously the most suitable for EQMM, but Dannay refused to publish it, and chose <i>The Garden with Forking Paths</i>, a much more complex story, published in August 1948.<br /> Dannay and Lee were still working on <i>Ten Days' Wonder</i> at that time, and maybe Dannay wanted to be the first to use the tetragrammaton in a crime story.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicGhf5nJHRLrh9-4KrGUCTLEbYRQhcHx405X_r7j3V40nVaACryT3F3nCUw06NTvKRpHReFkfN5uBrVaVei4ZD3H5Ujyu2fxd3tBNmWSQms72qhT_7aZZP4A25Pl1-iYVt1rLmTS_Xak67rBqARWgLnDOAY9dQd_hTgnWdqHGVMAOKSRxcueTBh1yh-g/s532/rich-man-poor-man.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="308" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicGhf5nJHRLrh9-4KrGUCTLEbYRQhcHx405X_r7j3V40nVaACryT3F3nCUw06NTvKRpHReFkfN5uBrVaVei4ZD3H5Ujyu2fxd3tBNmWSQms72qhT_7aZZP4A25Pl1-iYVt1rLmTS_Xak67rBqARWgLnDOAY9dQd_hTgnWdqHGVMAOKSRxcueTBh1yh-g/w133-h230/rich-man-poor-man.jpg" width="133" /></a></div> <i>Double, Double</i> (1950), the 20<sup>th</sup> Queen, has a very tricky plot, based on the nursery rhyme <i>Rich man, poor man</i>..., with two variants for the ending, first <i>Merchant Chief</i>, then <i>Merchant, Chief</i>, to fit the numerous deaths occurring in the novel.<br /> If the Hebrew letters JHWH have ranks 10-5-6-5 in the Hebrew alphabet, to these ranks match in our alphabet JEFE, the Spanish 'chief''. In the book Ellery finds an associate who, by joke, calls him 'chief'.<br /> There are seven deaths in the story, matching with the rhyme:<br /><br />
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<i>Rich man, Poor man, </i><b><span style="color: red;">M</span></b>acCaby <span style="color: yellow;"><b>H</b></span>art<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Beggarman, Thief, </i><b><span style="color: red;">A</span></b>nderson <span style="color: yellow;"><b> J</b></span>ackard<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Doctor, Lawyer, </i> <b><span style="color: red;"> D</span></b>odd <span style="color: yellow;"><b>H</b></span>olderfield<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Merchant, Chief</i>. Waldo <span style="color: yellow;"><b>W</b></span> (?)</div><br /> A last attempt is made against Ellery, the 'chief', but it misses its aim, and the murderer, named Ken Winship, is arrested. Ellery guesses he will be sentenced to death for his crimes:<br /><blockquote>Because the truth is Ken was the chief of everything. The chief criminal, the chief planner, the chief of operations, the chief victim.</blockquote> It may be noticed Winship is four times a chief, as number 4 is prominent in the book, beginning a 4/4, as well as 4<sup>th</sup> letter, D (<i>Double, double</i>). An allusion to the tetragrammaton? I thought too the first name of Dannay's mother was Dora. And he was 44 when the book was published.<br /><br /> Anyhow the initials of the 7 dead are MAD HJHW (+ W for the 'chief').<br /> That can give JHWH and ADM, these 3 Hebrew letters, <i>aleph, daleth, mem</i>, spelling in Hebrew the word <i>adam</i>, the name of the first man, or the noun 'man'.<br /> Is it far-fetched? Maybe not, as next Queen, <i>The Origin of Evil</i> (1951), shows a man named Adam taking his revenge on someone who is nicknamed 'God' by his employees.<br /> Priam and Hill stole the treasure Adam found, and left him dead. They founded an enterprise in which Priam is supposed to be the boss, but it's Hill that takes all the important decisions. After 25 years, Adam finds them, and becomes Priam's secretary. He flatters Priam, making him feel he deserves to be the only boss of the enterprise, and suggesting him a plan to kill Hill.<br /> The plan succeeds, but Adam introduced some mistakes in it, so Priam is arrested for the murder of Hill. He commits suicide in prison.<br /> The most important clue concerns letter T.<br /><br /> Dannay seemed to have some consistency, as next Queen, <i>The King is Dead</i> (1952), shows Cain and Abel Bendigo leading <i>The Bodigen Arms Company</i>. The elder brother Cain is known as the boss, the King, but it's Abel that takes all the important decisions. The Company has notably sold arms to Hitler's Germany.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxYTeVQowOoY5jLqWKFZ1TGhCfnizr4saqY-QKQI-1v4foUgC9L9FnUMQgIIu9uPjhaQWAewmAcZHNHgncVz7k9PZv0o9ubYUCA5IsqtVxxssW164u0MwxNf68w3NyKvxNIGx5xuQNysO5J0G1hEEj72pRJmbJqqwKGc5mI37TjghaNvSpO9i2c28zw/s145/truman.PNG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="117" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxYTeVQowOoY5jLqWKFZ1TGhCfnizr4saqY-QKQI-1v4foUgC9L9FnUMQgIIu9uPjhaQWAewmAcZHNHgncVz7k9PZv0o9ubYUCA5IsqtVxxssW164u0MwxNf68w3NyKvxNIGx5xuQNysO5J0G1hEEj72pRJmbJqqwKGc5mI37TjghaNvSpO9i2c28zw/s1600/truman.PNG" width="117" /></a></div> Hitler may habe been alluded to in <i>Double, Double</i>, with the strange character of Harry Toyfell, nearly an anagram of Adolf Hitler. Hardi Tofell would have been an exact anagram, but <i>toyfel</i> means 'devil' in Yiddish, and Harry is written in Hebrew with letters HRJ (<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">הרי</span></span>), ranks 5-20-10 in the Hebrew alphabet (as shows this engraved stone).<br /><br /> Obviously BODIGEN is the anagram of BENDIGO, but I suspect it hides another anagram, <a href="https://aish.com/sons-of-god-bnei-elohim/" target="_blank">BNEI GOD</a>, <i>bnei</i> meaning 'sons of' in Hebrew.<br /> In Jewish mysticism, all the divine sparks present in Adam were then shared between Cain and Abel, but in bad proportions, so Cain killed Abel. Dannay inversed Genesis pattern, and that's here Abel that kills his brother.<br /><br /> Another aspect of the theme of the two associates is a kind of partnership between the murderer and Ellery, whose art in deduction is needed in the criminal plan. When Ellery is not already there, the murderer manages to make him come.<br /> This pattern appears in all Ellery's investigations from 1948 to 1958, with some variants. The principal one is when Ellery is fooled by an innocent who wants to protect the real murderer. This happens in <i>Cat of Many Tails</i> (1949), and then in <i>And On The Eight Day</i>... (1964).<br /> Each time the chief planner thinks himself more clever than Ellery, and each time he's wrong, but Ellery is not clever enough to prevent the deaths (and it takes him 27 years to understand how he was fooled in <i>The Finishing Stroke</i>, too late to punish the murderer).<br /><br /> So, from 1948 to 1964, Dannay seems to have plotted a good collection of metaphysical stuff, more or less disguised, yet I wonder if there was not in previous works somme seeds of this will.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2ONTdnW_IZGl3waT-EX3F2X1pD22PPoqJ1D7p5VW_qrdDjl95pUNan7_7vn0QXwW_NiJ9310kVYUH1f4B--TC1ucI6LHy2AmtVkki36F5fNChxgSuvknTom0s7fhCemEFHGNsMdI-BqDoRAfb2ilmC0qndllYIMtMoTwg8zlo704ISI80w1-F79doQ/s480/BR02n_Tragedy_of_Y.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="339" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2ONTdnW_IZGl3waT-EX3F2X1pD22PPoqJ1D7p5VW_qrdDjl95pUNan7_7vn0QXwW_NiJ9310kVYUH1f4B--TC1ucI6LHy2AmtVkki36F5fNChxgSuvknTom0s7fhCemEFHGNsMdI-BqDoRAfb2ilmC0qndllYIMtMoTwg8zlo704ISI80w1-F79doQ/w141-h200/BR02n_Tragedy_of_Y.jpg" width="141" /></a></div> A quite stunny one is a Barnaby Ross novel of 1932, later edited as Ellery Queen, <i>The Tragedy of Y</i>. The Hatters, who are known as the Mad Hatters, are one of the oldest families of Washington Square. The oldest one, York Hatter, died recently, and his grandson, John Hatter, 13 years old, finds the manuscript of a crime story York situated in his own house, <i>The Tragedy of Y</i>.<br /> As all the Hatters, John, JH, is a bit mad, so he undertakes to make the plot a reality, following blindly the instructions of Y. Doesn't it remind the simple-minded JHW of 1963, in York Square, following blindly the instructions of Y?<br /><br /> It is needed here to explore the Hebrew text of man creation <i>Genesis</i>, in which prominent letters are DMA, <i>daleth, mem, aleph</i>.<br /> JHWH, or YHWH (the Lord, God), made ADM (Adam, the man) in His image, after His likeness (<a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/1-26.htm" target="_blank">Gn 1:26</a>). In Hebrew 'likeness' is <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1823.htm" target="_blank">DMWT</a>, <i>demuth</i>, root <a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1819.htm" target="_blank">DMH</a>, <i>dama(h)</i>, 'resemble', looking like <i>adam</i>.<br /> JHWH formed ADM from the dust of ADMH (<i>adama</i>, the ground), then He took a part of ADM to form Eve. Adam knew Eve his wife, and then were born Cain and Abel. <br /> Caïn killed his brother Abel, and JHWH heard 'the voice of Abel’s DM (<i>dam</i>, blood) crying from ADMH (<i>adama</i>, the ground)' (<a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/4-10.htm" target="_blank">Gn 4:10</a>).<br /><br /> In Latin Vulgata, Jerome translated YHWH by <i>Dominus</i>, a word originally related to <i>domus</i>, 'house'; a <i>dominus</i> was first the master of a house, DoMus in which root consonants are DM.<br /> So was York Hatter, YH, in the Hatter House. His son was Conrad, who married Martha. Is it far-fetched to find ADAM in conrAD-MArtha?<br /> Is it far-fetched to find JH and WH in the sons of Conrad and Martha Hatter, John and William? <br /> John and William are 13 and 4, an unusual difference, but 4 and 13 are the ranks of letter D and M, in our alphabet as well as in the Hebrew alphabet.<br /> John is said to persecute his young brother.<br /><br /> A main objection might be: why YH then JH? The same discrepancy appears in <i>The Player on the Other Side</i> (where Y stands both for York and YHWH), and Ellery himself declares in <i>Ten Days' Wonder</i>:<br /><blockquote>that name is hidden in the tetragrammaton I mentioned, the four consonants which were variously written — actually in five ways, from IHVH to YHWH (...)</blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFJPwpNyVrjaL1SKT8e_a-I1sHDpTdLFbO3MFhovBz2i662-p5irSIBYdEX4GL1DW7838wXJe2mJkSsj-2Q7fj1Ajw1ZYOpnF7hxoG6r1HqhOLyZPiTKh_XVC70Dwd13ceKZCfLR08OqiJMRhbhP6aKssB0_rkMuTAMy9_JCH3j6z4ZKGsSBHkxzazQ/s475/13k_Devil.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFJPwpNyVrjaL1SKT8e_a-I1sHDpTdLFbO3MFhovBz2i662-p5irSIBYdEX4GL1DW7838wXJe2mJkSsj-2Q7fj1Ajw1ZYOpnF7hxoG6r1HqhOLyZPiTKh_XVC70Dwd13ceKZCfLR08OqiJMRhbhP6aKssB0_rkMuTAMy9_JCH3j6z4ZKGsSBHkxzazQ/w126-h200/13k_Devil.jpg" width="126" /></a></div> In the 1963 novel, the player on the other side is the Devil (or God), and there is a 1938 Queen with 'devil' in the title, <i>The Devil to Pay</i>.<br /> The drama occurs in the Sans Souci domain, a set of four rich dwellings in the Hollywood hills, with a ten-foot fence all round it, and a guard to keep the only access.. Only two of the four houses are inhabited, by two associates leading the Ohippi HydroElectric Development, Solomon Spaeth and Rhys Jardin (and their families).<br /> The Ohippi plants are drowned by a flood, and many people loose the money they invested in the society, except Spaeth who sold his actions for fifty million dollars before the disaster was known.<br /> Spaeth is murdered, and Jardin ruined has to quit Sans Souci.<br /> <i>Jardin</i> is French for 'garden', Rhys is Welsh for 'ardent'. The enclosed Sans Souci domain might stand for the Garden of Eden, in which there is too a quaternary symbolism (source of four rivers, and there is a pool at the center of the domain). After the original sin Adam and Eve are exiled at east of Eden, maybe that inspired the exile of Jardin from Sans Souci.<br /><br /> The hydroelectric project suggests the word DAM, as MAD was a keyword in the Hatter case. <br /><br /> The murderer of Spaeth is Pink, the handyman of the Jardins, and he killed Spaeth with a bow, in order to accuse Rhys Jardin, a well-known archer. But Spaeth's son found his father dead with an arrow in his heart, and other clues accusing Jardin. He modified the crime scene to let people think Spaeth was killed by a dagger.<br /> Dannay took here the counterpart of Van Dine's <i>The Bishop Murder Case</i>, in which a murder is committed with a dagger, but the murderer introduces an arrow in the wound.<br /><br /> Pink is only known by these four letters. It might be because he was formerly an actor, as some actors were known by a single name. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqj6YXNTvrAMHM6-bZHaxCJqVj6TkWckKjOF8Wl7DH0ghIFI5nmfg_jneEEAdaq-BDLByHj_Atkoh8qurTw1DJ41CQ-OEKUrRP3TpWT7jnkZLelVWP0a1x615a1rPSPLzCIuBa7rUs0soJZ68iIprC_cE0kspoYV_EMLbwAxEY37r1nX-B_70GXAObHQ/s282/eros.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="282" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqj6YXNTvrAMHM6-bZHaxCJqVj6TkWckKjOF8Wl7DH0ghIFI5nmfg_jneEEAdaq-BDLByHj_Atkoh8qurTw1DJ41CQ-OEKUrRP3TpWT7jnkZLelVWP0a1x615a1rPSPLzCIuBa7rUs0soJZ68iIprC_cE0kspoYV_EMLbwAxEY37r1nX-B_70GXAObHQ/w160-h159/eros.jpg" width="160" /></a></div> This name PINK might point to a well-known archer, Eros, anagram of ROSE. Here Eros would play the Thanatos role.<br /> As it was a clue in Van Dine's novel, the archer is another name of the bishop, the chess piece. Each character in <i>The Player on the Other Side</i> has something to do with a chess piece, and one is Tom Archer, a suspect.<br /><br /> The first mention of Pink is about his role once as an Indian Chief:<br /><blockquote>an old still-picture of Pink, bow in hand, as Chief Yellow Pony, from that forgotten epic of the plains, <i>Red Indian</i>.</blockquote> <i>Indian Chief</i> is the last line in the common version of the rhyme in <i>Double, Double</i>. It goes then into <i>Merchant, Chief</i>, where <i>Chief</i> is finally identified as the murderer.<br /> I suggested CHIEF = JEFE = JHWH, and INDIAN might find a sense besides JHWH.<br /> Judaism forbids to pronounce the most holy name JHWH, which is replaced in the reading of the Bible by <i>adonai</i>, 'Lord', another four-letters word in Hebrew, spelled ADNY, or ADNJ, or ADNI, the letters forming INDIAN, and Dannay, and Danny, the diminutive of Daniel, Dannay's birth forename.<br /> Of course Dannay did not invent the expression <i>Indian Chief</i>, but there is a chief often mentioned in all Wrightsville novels, including <i>Ten Days' Wonder</i> and <i>Double, Double</i>, Chief Dakin, Wrightsville's Chief of Police. In Hebrew, letter K, <i>kaph</i>, is alone a preposition meaning 'alike', 'as', so<br />CHIEF DAKIN might be read YHWH K-ADNY, the Tetragrammaton is alike 'My Lord", and<br />INDIAN CHIEF = ADNY in YHWH...<br /> Wrightsville was founded by Jezreel Wright, a strange name as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley#Biblical_and_theological_relevance" target="_blank">valley of Jezreel</a> is believed to be the place where will occur the penultimate battle between good and evil (wright and wrong?).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimV1x3T9FfcydAorQj0HGUJ-0iKQTQue_Mmrx5KTW8r7S56eu20I9zTwiWq_YSthBlEAKujTcBVEtF_G56vrxXOkoT5kEzoQ4bi0WGLhL0itnuiGXXvo-DWw9XJYGWWOjqpnt3LWD0ytiZyxpbJ4jZg-T6pfxNQJ9e68_ggN23dO7CUJxhQmzVYZshWQ/s480/33i_Scarlet.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="299" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimV1x3T9FfcydAorQj0HGUJ-0iKQTQue_Mmrx5KTW8r7S56eu20I9zTwiWq_YSthBlEAKujTcBVEtF_G56vrxXOkoT5kEzoQ4bi0WGLhL0itnuiGXXvo-DWw9XJYGWWOjqpnt3LWD0ytiZyxpbJ4jZg-T6pfxNQJ9e68_ggN23dO7CUJxhQmzVYZshWQ/w124-h200/33i_Scarlet.jpg" width="124" /></a></div> In another novel, <i>The Scarlet Letters</i> (1953), letter Y is prominent. A friend of Ellery, Dirk Lawrence, suspects his wife Martha to have an affair with an actor, Van Harrison, known as V.H.<br /> Dirk and Martha, D and M?<br /> Dirk has found a code ruling datings between V.H. and Martha, an alphabetical list of 26 locations in New York. So V.H. needs only to give Martha a letter to fix the appointmant. Ellery is patient enough to check about 20 appointments, and to account of them to Dirk. Then Dirk shots Martha and her supposed lover. Ellery comes too late, but V.H. has the time to write with his blood letters XY. Did he regret to miss the next datings at Xochilt's and Yankee Stadium?<br /> At last Ellery understands V.H. could not finish his death message. He intended to write XX, because he was doublecrossed by Dirk who engaged him to fake an affair with Martha, in order to ask for divorce, but his plan was to kill them both, knowing that a jury would acquit a deceived husband.<br /><br /> Martha was born Martha Gordon, and it's useful to know someone named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Leib_Gordon" target="_blank">Judah Gordon</a> wrote a story of divorce impeached by an incomplete letter <i>yod</i>, <i>The Point on Top of the Yod</i>.<br /> It is about a woman named Bath Shua, a quite improbable name for a Jewish girl, as the biblical Bath Shua was Judah’s wife, a Canaanitess (Gn 38:12). YHWH was angry with that, and he killed the two first sons of Judah, who refused to make their wife pregnant, <a href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_(Genesis)" target="_blank">Thamar</a> (it's an anagram of Martha). As Judah was predicted to be the ancestor of the Messiah, Thamar had to have sex with his father-in-law to give him a proper lineage... <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUasl2fY0tFRx0MkPNTB1RzvUqhbNc_qhe8zczwhelXsMg2Qqo6uF76S-DGIDgOm_VlkF5aEhz_puzY3QtDaEmAPPyKtSLL9lzaBaODAiDR3sxJ-CvD8vyqDikwcoymbr9Dy4EMgV0iRd/s1600-r/map+001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="225" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138771695181968322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_jIgVW6dK_TZbDEhZMxXFDjyq25vr3F0a7d1xqgQvhCiW56Di3Fg0TnRGl556Go7bCcXBNtObQNhZN1ljqx4xzk_FSbPmOGkqPHBOUvIGo1Mr2EfHo1r9wSoHzEeD0goC-Oc0ZWgxhH3/w223-h225/map+001.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 10px auto; text-align: center;" width="223" /></a> In <i>The Player on the Other Side,</i> Percival's house in York Square looks a bit like a Hebrew <i>yod</i>, and Percival is suspected to be the mysterious Y.<br />
<br /> The four houses of York Square have in common a central park. So do the four houses of the Sans Souci domain which have in common a central pool.<br /><br /> I'm closing here, hoping to have suggested Dannay's works are not usual crime stories...<br /><br /> THE QUEEN SITE is Kurt Sercu's one, <a href="http://queen.spaceports.com/" target="_blank">here</a>...<br />...and <a href="https://deathcanread.blogspot.com/2022/11/ellery-queen-halfway-house-1936.html?m=1 " target="_blank">there</a>, an article by Pietro De Palma.<br /><br /></div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-44777646924478731922017-11-11T16:44:00.000-09:002017-11-16T02:02:50.624-09:0020-40-60<div align="justify">
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On last September 2, I published <a href="http://quaternite.blogspot.fr/2017/09/eberluant-anniversaire.html" target="_blank">a post</a> on my French blog, starting with the first image of Jean-Pierre Melville 's movie,
<i>Le Samouraï</i> (1967), in which is inlaid a legend : "Saturday April 4, 6 hours PM".<br />
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I recently learnt this, and it made me think of another movie starting on an Apr 4, Michael Bradford's <a href="http://quaternite.blogspot.fr/2009/08/its-real.html" target="_blank"><i>1984</i></a> (1984). More than that, the scene was shot on April 4, 1984, and the director tried to respect the time schedule of Orwell's novel, as far as possible.<br />
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This image appears after 10' of the movie, which begins with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate" target="_blank"><i>Two Minutes Hate</i></a> sequence. Then Winston Smith comes back home, and takes his carefully hidden diary, in which he writes the date. <br />
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Melville's <i>Le Samouraï</i> issued in 1967, but he wrote the script some years ago. I wondered which year could fit with a Saturday April 4, and the first year before 1967 is 1964.<br />
As I feel quite concerned about what happened on 4/4/44, I noticed these two April 4, 20 and 40 years later, with another interesting circumstance: it's on 4/4/4 (2004) that I saw the schematism of the date April 4, 1944, given by Jung in <i>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</i>.<br />
So I considered the idea of a movie beginning on 4/4/2004, but could't imagine it could exist, yet...<br />
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This 11/11, I see a new series on my streaming site,<i> <a href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/the-long-road-home/" target="_blank">The Long Road Home</a></i>. I try it and here's the first image: <br />
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This is the French version, I suppose the original one has got April 4 2004.<br />
The series depicts a real incident in Sadr City. The first two episodes issued on Nov 7, and the second one also begins with a legend April 4 2004. The series has 8 episodes, and I guess most of them will have the same beginning. The comments on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210820/" target="_blank">IMDb</a> don't seem enthusiastic.<br />
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Actually something important happened on 4/4/44, at least for Romanians, with a bombing of Bucharest which killed some 3000 people. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9qjIlyjcTU" target="_blank"><i>You Tube</i></a> offers a clip about it, beginning with this image:<br />
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What about the 4/4/2024? Wait and see.<br />
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There was too an unique event on 4/4/1964, a Saturday where issued the weekly <a href="https://beatlelists.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/top-five-in-the-usa/" target="_blank">US Billboard</a>.<br />
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That 4/4 the Fab Four held the top five places on the Billboard. That was the only time such a thing ever occurred.<br />
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I notice the first episode of <i> The Long Road Home</i> was available in France on 11/11, another double date as 4/4. <a href="http://unus-mundus.fr/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=64" target="_blank">This page</a> collects many coincidences about 11-11, which has inspired at least 2 movies, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396401/" target="_blank"><i>11:11</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1712159/" target="_blank"><i>11-11-11</i></a>.<br />
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After the sensible comment by William Gibbs, I'll add that I'm very attentive to all April 4's I encounter in my readings or viewings, since I realized how 4/4/44 was a signifiant day in Jung's life. I haven't seen any other videos beginning on 4/4's, and these three ones concern years 1964-1984-2004, and in each case the date appears on the screen.<br />
The timing of my viewings has to be analyzed. I saw <i>1984 </i>in 2009, and then reported its 4/4 on my French blog. It's just in last July that an article in a French paper mentioned Melville's movie began on a 4/4, with another coincidence: Melville went to Delon's home to ask him to be the main character of his film; Delon agreed and enquired about the movie's title; when Melville told him <i>The Samurai</i>, Delon took him to his room and shew him samurai's swords on the wall.<br />
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There is a novel beginning on a 4/4, <i>The Decorator</i> by Boris Akunin, and it was too a huge coincidence depicted on <a href="http://quaternity4.blogspot.fr/2011/04/" target="_blank">this set</a> of posts, about novels covering a Holy Week.<br />
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There is a movie where action lies on an unique day, 4/4, but of two different years, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300556/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>Timeline</i></a> (2003) by Richard Donner. It has been found by accident a device that sends people exactly 600 years before, then a squad is sent to rescue someone who is trapped on 4/4/1357. It's not clear if we start from 1957, and if April 4 of 1357 is a Gregorian date, or rather a Julian date, as Gregorian calendar did not exist yet.<br />
Assuming 4/4/1357 is a Julian date, it's bewildering this was the Tuesday of the Holy Week, and that it falls exactly 532 years before the 4/4/1889 where begins the Decorator, which is too a Julian date. 532 years is the cycle on which same Easter dates come back in the Julian calendar.<br />
I pointed in the same set of posts that 4/4/44 was Tuesday of the Holy Week in the Gregorian calendar, and that it could have an unique link with the original Week of the Passion.<br />
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At the end of the movie <i>Pi</i>, by Darren Aronofsky (shot in 1997, aired in 1998), Max Cohen
is sitting on a bench, a young girl friend comes to see him, and she
starts to play the game they used to play together.<br />
<i>- How about 255 times 183?</i><br />
But Max can't now answer faster than the calculator, and the girl has to answer herself:<br />
<i>- 46665.</i><br />
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She tries another question:<br />
<i>- How about 748 divided by 238?</i><br />
Max keeps silent, she insists:<br />
<i>- What's the answer?</i><br />
And these are the last words of the movie. <br />
Well the answer is 3.14..., a hint to the title of the movie.<br />
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I only know of another work ending with a
number which is too a code for its title. It's <i>House of Leaves</i> (HOL), a novel published by Mark Z. Danielewski (MZD) in 2000, but MZD already put on line the main part of it, the <i>Navidson record</i>, in 1997. He put it off in 1999 when he signed a publishing contract.<br />
The published book was given several new parts, or appendices, notably Appendix II-A, <i>Sketches and polaroids</i>, which consists of four numeroted documents. The last one, page 572 of the original edition, #081512, consists of 30 polaroids allegedly showing the Navidson House, but it seems they are all different houses.<br />
Anyhow the important thing is probably the number of the document, to be read,<br />
08-15-12, i.e. the ranks of letters H-O-L, <i>House of Leaves</i>.<br />
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On the recto side of the leaf of the book, page 571, there is document <b>#046665</b>.<br />
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So I only know of two works ending with a number which is a code for the title of the work, and in both works the key number is preceded by another number, and this number is <b>46665 </b>in both works.<br />
When I discovered that in 2007 I could hardly think it might be undeliberate, although I'm used to huge coincidences. I shared it on a <a href="http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/house-of-leaves/house-of-leaves-aa/5132-046665-081512">MZD forum</a>, but this didn't help much, until I learnt that the forum was hosted by a domain created in September 1999 by MZD. He had then a postal address, PO Box 46665 at PO 90046 in West Hollywood.<br />
I first thought that meant number 46665 was so important for MZD that he chose it for his PO Box, until I realized he couldn't have chosen the whole of it, as the first digits 46 are the prefix for PO 90046. He just could choose a free box when opening it, so this 46665 seems to have nothing to do with Aronofsky's one.<br />
As document #046665 consists of two postal envelopes with sketches on them, I guess MZD gave it the number he saw every day on his mail.<br />
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So the two 46665 just before the number coding for the title of the work seem a coincidence, and the coincidences are not over.<br />
It has to be thought too that <i>Pi </i>and HOL are the first official works of young authors, born in 1969 and 1966. Both became cult works.<br />
If Aronofsky's <i>Pi</i> deals a lot with numbers, it doesn't carry any hidden message, at least that's my opinion. The director introduces in it many tricks showing his skill, one of them is to give the image the aspect ratio of a golden rectangle, 1.618:1 (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/">IMDb</a> is wrong giving 1.66:1). That's probably the only movie using this ratio.<br />
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HOL is a very intricated book, and it's quite difficult for me to read it as I'm French. Yet being French might be helpful as MZD lived some years in France while working on HOL, I'll come to it in a while.<br />
Document #046665 gives informations that cannot be found in the text, and these informations seem to deal with the golden ratio. The slap of the big envelope was used to draw a tight labyrinth, with a great white rectangle left.<br />
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It looks like the length of this rectangle is the golden section of the length of the slap, and the rectangle is a golden rectangle. It's not quite perfect as it's a hand drawing, and the slap is not orthogonal, and the photo might add distorsions, yet the superposition with a screenshot of <i>Pi </i>speaks for itself.<br />
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I chose the scene with the girl saying 46665...<br />
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Now let's build a golden rectangle starting from the bottom of the big envelope, and using its width. The heigth fits almost exactly with the top of the little envelope (which is not exactly parallel to the big one).</div>
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The vertical half of this golden rectangle, the red line, fits almost exactly with the top of the big envelope. That means the vertical half of the envelope, passing by the tip of the slap, is also almost exactly a golden rectangle. Painters using the golden ratio appreciate much this format (called 'double golden cut' by French painter Sérusier).</div>
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I drew too in yellow the golden rectangle using the tip of the slap.<br />
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Just under the white golden rectangle is carefully written <i>Even today the Kitawans view the spiral of the <u>Nautilus pompilius</u> as the ultimate symbol of perfection.</i><br />
This is nearly the text of footnote 382, which precises <i>the Kitawans of the South Pacific</i>. It comes from <a href="https://books.google.fr/books?id=Cipwz35oA98C&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false">a book</a> in which it is stated this feeling is an unconscious perception of the properties of the golden ratio.<br />
Actually the nautilus is quoted too in <i>Pi</i>, when Max talks about the golden ratio and the golden spiral: <i>Pythagoras loved this shape, for he found it in nature - a nautilus shell, rams' horns, whirlpools, tornadoes...</i><br />
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Well this is not a nautilus Max is looking at, and his statements don't reflect Aronofsky's mind. Aronofsky seems to have picked up here and there doubtful esoteric stuff, and he introduces in it evident mistakes showing the credit he gives to it. That even goes to the decimals of Pi in the opening sequence which are wrong after the 8<sup>th </sup>one. <a href="https://books.google.fr/books?id=eMl_y_Z2V8AC&pg=PR49-IA7&lpg=PR49-IA7#v=onepage&q&f=false">This book</a> studies the math mistakes in the movie.<br />
Actually, the spiral of the nautilus is not a classic golden spiral, as it is detailed <a href="https://www.goldennumber.net/nautilus-spiral-golden-ratio/" target="_blank">here</a>, but it's one of the most common things often associated with the golden ratio. <br />
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It's now time to come to the main features of the works. HOL deals with Will Navidson's house. After an incident, Navidson discovers his house is one quarter of an inch wider when measured on the inside than measured on the outside. Then the house continues to grow inside, while the outside width remains the same, 32' 9 3/4". Then corridors and staircases (spiral staircases which are the occasion to quote the nautilus) appear and disappear, and people get lost while trying to explore them...<br />
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Johnny Truant, who studies the story of the house, has drawn a map of it on the little envelope. It seems to be a square (but it's never told what is the length of the house). A totally new feature is that the width of 32' 9 3/4" is said to be equivalent to 20 cubits.<br />
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The word <i>cubit</i>
never appears in the text, in which there's no hint to another standard of measurement.</div>
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The little envelope shows too Johnny calculating the cubit in inches, starting with 32' 9 3/4"= 393 3/4". </div>
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393 3/4"/20 = X "<br />
(393.75/20 = X ")<br />
then X = 19.6875"<br />
One inch is exactly 2.54 centimeters, and the conversion gives<br />
19.6875 x 2.54 = 50.00625 cm,<br />
so the cubit is almost exactly 50 cm, and the outside width of the house should be 1000 cm, 10 meters, or
10.00125 cm if Navidson's measurement was perfect, but I guess MZD could not give a better precision in order to make a cubit equal to exactly 50 cm.</div>
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Why should be the width measured in cubits, and why should a cubit be exactly 50.00 cm? This echoes to something that can hardly be known out of France, where was published in 1985 <i>L'art des bâtisseurs romans</i>,
or <i>Cahier de Boscodon n° 4</i>, of which the editor claims 60,000 sells.<br />
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There is too the alleged golden spiral of the <i>Nautilus pompilius</i> in this book... Its main feature is that Le
Corbusier borrowed his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulor" target="_blank">Modulor</a>, an anthropometric scale of proportions based on the golden ratio, from an esoteric model existing at least in the Middle Age, and maybe far before, the 'quine des
bâtisseurs', made of five units of measurement ruled by the golden ratio and the human body.<br />
Although the author, a monk of a Provence abbey, doesn't give any shadow of an evidence of his claims, the book has been so well received that its assertions were reprinted in many other books, including school manuals.<br />
Yet the whole thing seems quite doubtful, as the five units are, expressed in centimeters, 20 times the powers of Phi, the golden ratio (1.618):<br />
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The middle unit, the 'empan', the hand-span, is exactly 20.00 cm, hundreds of years before the metric system.<br />
The biggest unit is the 'coudée', the cubit, measuring 52.36 cm. If 10 meters would be exactly 50 spans of 20 cm in this system, I'll try to explain why MZD could have preferred 20 cubits of 50 cm.<br />
There is a strong clue showing his knowledge of the 'quine' with an imaginary book about the Navidson house, <i>Concatenating Le Corbusier</i>, by Aristides <b>Quine</b> (footnote 150). <br />
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It has now to be thought that 20 cubits is known to have been the width of Solomon's Temple, and especially of its most sacred part, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple#Holy_of_Holies" target="_blank">HOLy of HOLies</a>, which was 20 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit">cubits</a> in length, breadth, and height.<br />
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Several clues might support the idea Navidson's house has much to do with Solomon's Temple:<br />
- Solomon was David's son, which looks much like Navidson, an unknown surname;<br />
- the Temple is known as the House of YHWH;<br />
- Navidson's house is at the corner of Ash Tree Lane and Succoth, a Jewish word which first refers to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot" target="_blank">Feast of Tabernacles</a>, the first of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which the Israelites were commanded to perform a pilgrimage to the Temple.<br />
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To be honest, there are many, too many clues, in HOL, suggesting many other leads.<br />
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Now the Holy of Holies is expressly mentioned in <i>Pi</i>. Max Cohen has found a 216-digit number that makes him becoming a target for yuppies, who want to use it at Wall Street, and for Hassidim, who state the number is the divine key to meet God.<br />
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Max is kidnapped by the Hassidim, and lead to an old Rabbi who tells him every year the Great Priest of Israel entered the Holy of Holies and called God with a 216-letter word, which has been forgotten. Max successes to escape, and has to withdraw the number from his brain with a power drill...<br />
Actually there is an important sequence of 216 letters in the Hebrew Bible, the three verses of Exodus 14,19-21, each one being 72 letters long. Jewish mystic used it to build 72 names of angels.<br />
It has to be said that the Holy of Holies, <i>Qodesh haQodashim</i>, has another name in Hebrew, <a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrew/1687.htm" target="_blank"><i>debir</i></a>, <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="hebrew">דְּבִיר</span></span>, a word which has the value 216 in the traditional Hebrew system.<br />
The name 'Max Cohen' probably refers to Great Priest, <i>Cohen haGadol</i>, <i>Pontifex Maximus</i>...<br />
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The French adaptations of HOL and <i>Pi </i>bring surprises.<br />
The name of the alleged author of document #046665, Johnny Truant, could not be kept in France, where a <i>truand </i>is a 'hoodlum', so the translator made him Johnny Errand. Asked about it, he replied this had nothing to do with ERRAND anagram of DARREN, Aronofsky's first name.<br />
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Anyhow, a French spectator of <i>Pi </i>cannot think of HOL as there is no 46665 in the French dubbing.<br />
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For some unknown reason, the multiplication<br />
255 x 183<br />
became<br />
255 x 1280<br />
with the appropriate result<br />
326,400.<br />
The quite strange thing is that 1280 is one of the two remaining documents in the Annex II-A, #175079 and #001280. This 1280 is also drawings on an envelope, while 175079 uses sheets of a notebook.<br />
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The strangeness is even bigger, as the final scene of <i>Pi </i>echoes to one of its first scenes (time 2:10), in which little Jenna plays too with Max in the staircases (!) of their building.<br />
From <a href="https://www.qedcat.com/moviemath/pi.html" target="_blank">the script</a> Jenna had to say<br />
What's 322 times 491?<br />
but she was shot saying<br />
What's 322 times 481? <br />
Max answers the correct question, 158,102. The wrong 481 is corrected in 491 in the <a href="http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/P/Pi.sub" target="_blank">English subtitles</a>, as well as in other foreign subtitles, but as far as I know 255 x 183 has not been changed in other dubbings.<br />
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The combination of mistakes and changes in Jenna's multiplications echoes to her divisions. In the first scene the multiplication is followed by the division<br />
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then continues 1, 8, 1, 8, 1, 8... on each stair of the staircases he is going down.</div>
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This division has the same decimals as 7/22, the inverse of 22/7, well-known approximation of Pi. The final fivision 748/238 simplifies to 22/7, and it came to me it could be 'phinal', as the difference 748-238 equates to 510, which is the Greek value of <span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="lang-el" lang="el">φι</span></span>, the name of the Greek letter Phi which is the symbol of the golden ratio.<br />
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I apologize for my bad English that doesn't allow me to translate all I've seen around this 46665. There is much more on my <a href="http://quaternite.blogspot.fr/" target="_blank">French blog</a>.<br />
Just one thing I want to add, without elaborating. The sequence 046665 appears quite soon among Phi decimals, starting on the 463<sup>rd</sup> digit. This means the sequence 466 appears ending on the 466<sup>th</sup> digit. It has been done <a href="http://www.piacrossamerica.org/whypi.html" target="_blank">such calculations</a> with Pi, notably showing the sequence 360 appears ending on the git.<br />
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Note, Feb 2020 : <i>Apocalypse</i> (2009) is a French thriller by Giacometti & Ravenne, a journalist and a Freemason dealing often with esoteric stuff. This novel deals with the Rennes-le-Château affair, and I noticed in it the enigma <i>Maria Nigra 66654</i>, which is solved with the tombstone of Marie de
Nègre, a major piece in the affair. The word NIGLA
is obained by jumps of letters 6-6-6-5-4 (using the normal letters). <i>Nigla </i>means « apocalypsis » in Hebrew.<br />
I noticed it because of the echo with 46665, but it took me ten years to realize that <i>Apocalypsis</i> was the title of the book. <br /><br />Note, Sep 2020 : It took me too some years to think of an hypothesis that could explain a part of the coincidences above.<br /> MZD might easily have known in 1999 that the number 46665 of his PO Box appeared in <i>Pi</i>. If so, he must have noticed that this number was the 3<sup>rd</sup> of a series of 4, last one being a riddle hinting to the title of the movie.<br /> Then MZD might have the idea to add in the book published in 2000 the Appendix II-A, made of 4 numeroted documents, 3<sup>rd</sup> one being numbered 46665, last one being a riddle hinting to the title of the novel. He managed to introduce in document 46665 the common themes in the two works, golden ration and Salomon's Temple.<br /> It's even possible he informed some French friends of the number of his PO Box appearing in <i>Pi</i>. MZD might then have known the odd change of the French version, and used it to number document 1280.<br /> Yet some stange coincidences remain.<br /><br /></div>
blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-44668334961957870112012-10-31T10:31:00.000-08:002017-07-18T20:13:29.834-08:00golNDE ratio<div align="justify">
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My <a href="http://quaternity4.blogspot.fr/2010/04/1.html">first post</a> exposed the severe heart attack Jung suffered in Feb 44. He was several weeks between life and death, and probably owed his survival to Swiss greatest heart specialist, Theodor Haemmerli, called Dr H. in <i>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</i> (MDR).<br />
Jung had visions during his illness, and an experience in which we recognize now a NDE. The testimony he gives in MDR might be the first NDE case fully published.<br />
Jung flew away high up in space, seeing far below the earth, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnAiZIXLY8xT8tSkW9plniHqf60Ijlfvs6haBoNXXP7IMouWbyiyjFV5wlUpcJNW6UrEYfdrvrUtbxgmMJMpnr75h18RkWe1NygIZ-liRQsyED6tblcrTvuySl0_4JSNA68QX7LodRqSY/s1600/nde.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469145212954191730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnAiZIXLY8xT8tSkW9plniHqf60Ijlfvs6haBoNXXP7IMouWbyiyjFV5wlUpcJNW6UrEYfdrvrUtbxgmMJMpnr75h18RkWe1NygIZ-liRQsyED6tblcrTvuySl0_4JSNA68QX7LodRqSY/s200/nde.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 161px; margin: 5px 0px 2px 6px; width: 200px;" /></a>bathed in a gloriously blue light. Then he saw a tremendous dark block of stone, floating in space; a temple was there, and he knew he would receive inside all the answers to all his questions, but before he could enter the temple he met Dr H., delegated from the earth to tell him there was a protest against his going away. He had to return.<br />
The moment Jung heard that, the vision ceased, and he was profoundly disappointed.<br />
I have shortened the report. Jung couldn't know in 44 a basic NDE case, where the subject meets on the other side dead members of his family, telling him the time is not yet come, but he was surprised to have met Dr H., a living person, in the other world: <br />
<blockquote>
I felt violent resistance to my doctor because he had brought me back to life. At the same time, I was worried about him. "His life is in danger, for heaven's sake! He has appeared to me in his primal form! When anybody attains this form it means he is going to die, for already he belongs to the 'greater company'!"<br />
Suddenly the terrifying thought came to me that Dr H. would have to die in my stead.</blockquote>
He tried to warn him, but the doctor didn't care, taking Jung's visions as pure delirium. Maybe Dr H. was wrong, as <br />
<blockquote>
I was his last patient. On 4 April 1944 - I still remember the exact date - I was allowed to sit up on the edge of my bed for the first time since the beginning of my illness, and on this same day Dr H. took to his bed and did not leave it again. Soon afterward he died of septicemia.<br />
<span style="margin-left: 280pt;">(MDR, <i>Visions)</i></span></blockquote>
<i>Soon afterward</i> might be unappropriate, as Haemmerli died on June 30, 87 days later (I found this date in a list of Swiss physicians, its URL is now invalid, <a href="http://books.google.fr/books/about/Dr_Med_Theodor_Haemmerli_Schindler_geb_I.html?id=PHSMXwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y">here</a> is another source). This was misunderstood by most biographers who didn't check this fact, which increases the strangeness of the case as June 30 might be the very day when Jung left the hospital (end of June or beginning of July).<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJq4XdqvJtHgtJ-NKww3Ew7B9KDZP6IhFbRYyInWoOWH3shK76TYuf3aBxnliT9ll-FCXIlGxmFtagSjuaDO1f7kD7_ctERu6T6eaDD9TuvKod9wxFRNQPpzHzlvc3C0ZLV7KoRUCx1iCY/s1600/lifeafterlife.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJq4XdqvJtHgtJ-NKww3Ew7B9KDZP6IhFbRYyInWoOWH3shK76TYuf3aBxnliT9ll-FCXIlGxmFtagSjuaDO1f7kD7_ctERu6T6eaDD9TuvKod9wxFRNQPpzHzlvc3C0ZLV7KoRUCx1iCY/s200/lifeafterlife.jpg" width="130" /></a> I found a few days ago that this June 30, 44 is too the birthdate of Raymond Moody, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Moody">one</a> who revealed the NDE phenomenon, with his <i>Life after Life</i> in 1975. <br />
This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_Life">book</a> was a revolution. Jung's case was not unique, but the people who lived such an experience were reluctant to share it, for obvious reasons. The progresses of medicine allowed more and more people to come back from clinical death, often with a strange story to tell...<br />
Moody was the one who collected about 150 of these stories, and his book helped thousands of other people to share their experience.<br />
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Moody's later researches led him to believe in reincarnation, and to state he personally had nine past-lives.<br />
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I do not know the hour of Haemmerli's death; I found <a href="http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Raymond_Moody">there</a> that Moody was born at 8 PM in Georgia, which with the time difference would anyway be after the death of his Swiss colleague.<br />
It looks then incredible that the man who showed the reality of the NDE phenomenon was born a few hours after someone involved in what is probably the most famous historical NDE case, someone who maybe died because he was skeptical about it.<br />
One could imagine Haemmerli's thoughts before his death, such as: <i>Shit! this Jung was right. If I had a chance to live another life, I'll try my best to study this strange phenomenon</i>.<br />
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In 1975 Moody only knew recent NDE cases, but his next book, <i>Reflections on Life after Life</i>, gives in 1977 some historical cases, such as Jung's one, briefly:<br />
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Also interesting is the fact that the renowned psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung had a near-death experience; he describes it in the section intitled <i>Visions</i> in the book <i>Memories, Dreams, and Reflections</i>.</blockquote>
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I came to a new interest in NDE's after a reading which mentioned the work of one of Moody's main followers, Kenneth Ring.<br />
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While Moody only studied about 150 cases, Ring made a questionnaire that he sent to thousands of experiencers, and he published his results in <i>Life at Death</i> (1980), trying to approach the typical NDE, following the percentages obtained from his questionnaire:<br />
He subdivided the NDE on a five-stage continuum. The subdivisions were:<br />
1) - Peace (60 %)<br />
2) - Body separation (37 %)<br />
3) - Entering darkness (23 %)<br />
4) - Seeing the light (16 %)<br />
5) - Entering the light (10 %)<br />
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I already read that long ago, but since that time I became acquainted with the Golden Ratio, and now I recognize in these numbers 60-37-23-16-10 something that looks like a golden sequence. Starting with 60, successive divisions by 1.618 (the Golden Ratio) give, in rounded numbers:<br />
60 - 37 - 23 - 14 - 9<br />
The last two numbers don't fit the percentages as perfectly as the first ones; it might be argued that the low percentages have not the same accuracy as the higher ones, but anyhow the similarity is striking.<br />
I notice that 60 % is near the golden section of 100 %, and here is the golden sequence starting with 100, still in round numbers:<br />
100 - 62 - 38 - 24 - 15 - 9<br />
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I'm afraid I cannot say if this similarity is a mere coincidence or if some mathematical correlation could explain it (notably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law">Zipf's law</a>). Some other studies about NDE's do not reflect exactly this first scientific approach.<br />
Many false claims run about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio">golden ratio</a>, yet it can appear in some mathematical processes, just because it's an important algebric number. I'm rather interested in cases where there is absolutely no reason for its presence, and yet it's there. My <a href="http://quaternity4.blogspot.fr/2011/08/philadelphia-exphiriment.html">previous post</a> was about the first maps of Philadelphia (Phi or φ symbolizes the Golden Ratio), a rectangle of 8 x 21 blocks in which Center Square (now Town Hall) is not at all in the center but divides these numbers in 3-5-8-13, that any reader of <i>Da Vinci Code</i> identifies today with the Fibonacci Sequence. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-KKDurYqvlvLreklwVqvvrj5FaEyJlOVTrhLVKG5l_tL5lmzaYq11HytLvUvANd3rs4y_IOo8QrqG1LSvhbAZEFMoYj8KRDCixhbwElqSMfQTc0OJjBzxrZxyDwyyInTF99_wVd3BkcY/s1600/phi1764.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638491596932230050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-KKDurYqvlvLreklwVqvvrj5FaEyJlOVTrhLVKG5l_tL5lmzaYq11HytLvUvANd3rs4y_IOo8QrqG1LSvhbAZEFMoYj8KRDCixhbwElqSMfQTc0OJjBzxrZxyDwyyInTF99_wVd3BkcY/s400/phi1764.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 212px; margin: 2px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
I shared it here because I saw a parallel with Jung's experience in 1944; I gave some hints and planned to work it up, but I failed to do it, for it was a big job.<br />
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I had a kind of NDE when I was about 19, around 1969. It was rather an altered state of consciousness as I was not at all in a near-death situation, but it had many points in common with a NDE, although I obviously didn't know such a phenomenon existed. Actually it troubled me a lot, and I kept it for myself during so many years that I was not sure then of what exactly happened.<br />
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My favorite writer was Phil Dick, and I was puzzled to find in <i>A Scanner Darkly</i> (1977) the report of an experience which looked much like mine. It was attributed to a fictitious character, Tony Amsterdam, but I learnt later that it happened to himself.<br />
So Tony or Phil had the feeling he met God during this experience, and he saw too a doorway with pleasing proportions, leading maybe to God's world, but he just admired the door and didn't think <span style="text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">of going through it. He worried then all his life that he would never have such another chance.</span><br />
In my experience I felt like Phil that the molecules of my mind ran very fast across the universe, until it slowed down to some rest, facing what might have been God's throne. Then I heard a sentence in an unknown language, but I could understand its meaning: <i><b>I am not what people believe I am.</b></i><br />
Then I got back into normality, and tried to find the previous state again. I had the vision of a narrow street, of a house in this street, of its door...<br />
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This disturbed me a lot as I was an unbeliever, having got rid of the Christian education I was raised in. So I mostly did as the experience didn't happen, until I found in my third reading of <i>A Scanner Darkly</i> how much Tony's experience looked like mine. It was so far away that I felt unable to remember if I ever thought of what was behind my door.<br />
This experience is present too in the books of the so-called <i>Divine Trilogy</i>, as well as in the <i>Exegesis</i>, and in the three novels Dick precises that the doorway was a Golden Rectangle. It seems that in his mind the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence are privileged accesses to the other world; in <i>The Divine Invasion</i>, Zina and Emmanuel discuss about this doorway to Heaven:<br />
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The ratio, she said to Herb Asher, is that used in playing cards: three to five. </blockquote>
5/3 is the first Fibonacci fraction (1.666) giving a valuable approximation of Phi (1.618), but it's quite amazing that, according to the usual numerology from A=1 to Z=26,<br />
PHIL / DICK = 45/27 = 5/3<br />
so Phil Dick might be a doorway for those who didn't live such an experience;-)<br />
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Later I found the case of Jung in 1944, in which there is too a doorway leading to a sacred place, but Haemmerli forbids Jung to get in. I calculated, using the same way as above,<br />
HAEMMERLI / JUNG = 84/52 = 21/13 ≈ Phi<br />
as 13 and 21 are two successive Fibo numbers.<br />
Jung's report of his 1944 visions might have been the first NDE case depicted. Jung and Haemmerli met in the other world, the world of death, and both came back. In our Western tradition, what might seem the nearest could be the cases of Enoch and Elijah, the only two characters of the Old Testament that didn't die, and were raised directly to Heaven. In the Hebrew alphabet, using the traditional gematria, these two people have the same values as Haemmerli and Jung in our modern alphabet:<br />
- חנוך (Enoch) = 84<br />
- אליהו (Elijah) = 52<br />
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Another disturbing echo is given by the only dates known for the 44 events:<br />
- from Feb 11, Jung's accident, to 4/4/44, there are 53 days;<br />
- from 4/4/44 to Jun 30, Haemmerli's death, there are 87 days.<br />
53-87 is the golden repartition of the sum 140<br />
- <span style="font-size: 12pt;">חםה</span> <i>'hama</i> (sun) = 53<br />
- לבנה <i>levana</i> (moon) = 87<br />
Jung chiseled Sun and Moon on the Bollingen stone he engraved as a commemoration of his 44 recover.<br />
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I develop more echoes on <a href="http://unus-mundus.fr/viewtopic.php?p=13207#p13207">this topic</a> of the forum <b>Unus Mundus</b>.<br />
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I'm not trying to make any theory about a link between NDE's and Golden Ratio, I just point to these echoes which might be another trick of the Trickster. In chapter two of <i>Synchronicity</i>, Jung accounts of an astrological experiment he imagined to give an experimental proof of the phenomenon. A first batch showed a strong correlation between the sun-moon aspects of married people and the traditional astrological correspondence, but another batch didn't confirm the first results, and that led Jung to state the first results were a synchronicity, showing the phenomenon existed, but beyond any hope of a scientific analysis.<br />
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I don't feel I have to justify what made me calculate the values of the man who found the five stages of NDE's, with the percentages 60-37-23-16-10 :<br />
KENNETH RING = 77-48<br />
That's a golden name, and so is the <a href="http://kenring.org/">usual</a> diminutive<br />
KEN RING = 30/48 = 5/8<br />
The same ratio 8/5 (Fibonacci) appears for the last two stages of his typical NDE, 16-10.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTK39F3-1IrCwwIF4byDWxVi_D8nh5JQa7Pr5x3r5-Ntv89ekKcaJfgfjkrvAagVPmsZlT7_B5-L10tyA260clc8tiY4pqV0objlc6XTWlS7ExvIKxi8NNNk9p_L7hMF8nP5obsMuPULc/s1600/Paul-Ray.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTK39F3-1IrCwwIF4byDWxVi_D8nh5JQa7Pr5x3r5-Ntv89ekKcaJfgfjkrvAagVPmsZlT7_B5-L10tyA260clc8tiY4pqV0objlc6XTWlS7ExvIKxi8NNNk9p_L7hMF8nP5obsMuPULc/s1600/Paul-Ray.JPG" /></a> I read long ago MDR, but in this rich book I didn't notice peculiarly the day 4/4/44. I saw its schematism much later in the book <i>Les raisons de l'irrationnel</i> (1976, but already published in <a href="http://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr&id=zBRFAQAAIAAJ" target="_blank">1970</a> with the title <i>Plaidoyer pour l'extraordinaire</i>), by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Misraki">Paul Misraki</a>, a French composer who gave in the 30's the best known hits of Ray Ventura's orchestra, such as <i>Tout va très bien, madame la marquise</i>. <br />
I calculated<br />
PAUL MISRAKI = 50/80 = 5/8,<br />
a golden name, with the same Fibonacci ratio as Ken Ring.<br />
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In a footnote of this book, Misraki stated there was common points between the experience of Jung in 44 and another case he held from a relative. It might have been the first connection published between NDE's, but such connections were known before in the medical world, and Moody's enquiry started in 1965 when he heard about two similar cases. <br />
<a href="http://images-booknode.com/book_cover/29/la-vie-apres-la-vie-29149-250-400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://images-booknode.com/book_cover/29/la-vie-apres-la-vie-29149-250-400.jpg" height="200" width="123" /></a> Actually Misraki was the French translater of Moody's first books, published in France in 77 and 78.<br />
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There is too a <a href="http://jodyglynnpatrick.com/2012/06/17/reincarnation-shared-near-death-experiences-meet-ray-moody/" target="_blank">diminutive</a> for Moody,<br />
RAY MOODY = 44/72<br />
and that's again a golden name.<br />
For the two diminutives,<br />
MOODY-RING / RAY-KEN = 120/74 = 60/37, the percentages obtained by Ring for the first two stages of the typical NDE.<br />
In order to appreciate the probability for someone to have a golden name, I studied several lists of real names. My more important batches were two lists of 3700 actresses and 2700 actors found on the web, and both give exactly the same odds, 1 against 34.<br />
This is just to give an idea, as I do not try to prove anything.<br />
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Moody and Ring were two of the five founders of <a href="http://www.iands.org/about-iands/history/the-founding-of-iands-raymond-moody.html">IANDS</a>, the first organization devoted to the study of NDE's. John Audette is generally considered as its main creator. It's again a golden name<br />
JOHN AUDETTE = 47 76 <br />
So, including all the forms of their names, 3 of these 5 founders have golden names, and another harmony appears between the 5 complete <a href="http://www.gef.free.fr/gem.php?texte=JOHN+AUDETTE%0AKENNETH+RING%0ARAYMOND+MOODY%0AMICHAEL+SABOM%0ABRUCE+GREYSON">names</a>:<br />
JOHN AUDETTE = 47+76 = 123<br />
KENNETH RING = 77+48 = 125<br />
RAYMOND MOODY = 90+72 = 162<br />
These are the ones with golden possibilities, giving the sum 123+125+162 = 410<br />
The other two are<br />
MICHAEL SABOM = 51+50 = 101<br />
BRUCE GREYSON = 49+103 = 152<br />
and 101+152 = 253 is the golden section of 410<br />
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Joel Schumacher made in 1990 a movie about NDE's, <i><a href="http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0099582/combined">Flatliners</a></i>. Five medical students investigate the phenomenon, putting themselves in clinical death state. Another set of five, but only four of them actually experience NDE's. Here David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon) is reanimated by his friends, and it's again a golden name, 40/64 = 5/8, the same fraction encountered with Ken Ring = 30/48 and Paul Misraki = 50/80.<br />
There is also a golden harmony between the 4 experiencers, whose <a href="http://www.gef.free.fr/gem.php?texte=Nelson+Wright%0ARachel+Mannus%0ADavid+Labraccio%0AJoe+Hurley" target="_blank">names</a> are:<br />
Nelson Wright = 79 85<br />
Rachel Mannus = 47 82<br />
David Labraccio = <b>40 64</b><br />
Joe Hurley = <u>30 89</u><br />
totals = 196 320 = 4 (<b>49 80</b>)<br />
First names have for average value 49, second names 80, and 49-80 is the golden repartition of 129.<br />
It can be noted too that they form a Jungian quaternion, 3 men and 1 woman, this woman having the value 129, average value of the group.<br />
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To give an example of how it is a big job to give an account of my golden researches, I recently tried to collect all the coincidences involving together numbers 13 and 21, and I soon came over 80 cases.<br />
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blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-41102835320934703582011-08-13T08:13:00.030-08:002011-09-19T05:07:52.145-08:00Philadelphia Exphiriment<div align="justify">This isn't directly connected now with Jung, as it would be too long to explain how Jung is related to the Golden Ratio, what I intended to develop in my next series of posts, on next 4/4.<br />Yet it has to do with quaternity, as I came to learn that Philadelphia was once the biggest city in America, the first one built on a rectangular plan. It was first conceived around a quincux of five squares , a central square which was planned to become the administrative center of the city, and four squares originally named Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest.<br />I found this 1682 map, when it was founded by William Penn on Oct 27:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKEEJRb2iqriUfoo6s_pRS3mrvjPf-zq-S4MQraqwrJ8qbNc8v_IWvVev8rwlv_m2RLRal29cFDvkaMSddSi9ow4ulFdM8pKMuM-jOKbmPdkhARRLQysNXXq2AVnxyQDQWq3mPZVKu9mV/s1600/phi1682.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 2px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637242196522253970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKEEJRb2iqriUfoo6s_pRS3mrvjPf-zq-S4MQraqwrJ8qbNc8v_IWvVev8rwlv_m2RLRal29cFDvkaMSddSi9ow4ulFdM8pKMuM-jOKbmPdkhARRLQysNXXq2AVnxyQDQWq3mPZVKu9mV/s400/phi1682.JPG" /></a> I was struck by a dissymmetry : Center Square looked right in the middle of East-West, but not at all in the middle of North-South, and the disposition of the four squares underlined this dissymmetry.<br />Maybe there was an obvious reason for this: the founders already thought the city might get extended, and some swamps prevented it to grow south (at least that was what they thought then), so Center Square was the hopeful center of a bigger city.<br /><a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=RP-IRN8PDnUC&pg=PA322&dq=%22High+street+near+the+middle%22&hl=fr&ei=I0A6TvHZNceb8QPZ572XAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22High%20street%20near%20th">This book</a> gives details: the city was organized around two big streets 100 feet broad, High Street (near the middle of the city) between the two rivers, Broad Street North-South, crossing High St right in its middle.<br />Center Square was 10 acres, and the four other squares were 8 acres each. There were 22 streets besides Broad Street, each side a Front Street and 10 streets numbered from 1st to 10th, 50 feet broad each, and 8 streets besides High St, 3 North and 5 South, which were named with trees, from Vine St North to Cedar St South.<br />8 blocks distributed in 3+5, that’s three numbers of the Fibonacci Sequence, and I was amazed cause I already associated Philadelphia with that sequence, I'll explain later how.<br />My curiosity led me to <a href="http://www.philadelphiaspeaks.com/forum/history/263-maps-old-philadelphia.html">this site</a>, giving many Philadelphia maps, and several 18th Century maps show a city of 21 x 8 blocks, as this French <a href="http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1764bellinphila.jpg">1764 map</a>: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-KKDurYqvlvLreklwVqvvrj5FaEyJlOVTrhLVKG5l_tL5lmzaYq11HytLvUvANd3rs4y_IOo8QrqG1LSvhbAZEFMoYj8KRDCixhbwElqSMfQTc0OJjBzxrZxyDwyyInTF99_wVd3BkcY/s1600/phi1764.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 2px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638491596932230050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-KKDurYqvlvLreklwVqvvrj5FaEyJlOVTrhLVKG5l_tL5lmzaYq11HytLvUvANd3rs4y_IOo8QrqG1LSvhbAZEFMoYj8KRDCixhbwElqSMfQTc0OJjBzxrZxyDwyyInTF99_wVd3BkcY/s400/phi1764.JPG" /></a>All these maps show 8 streets West of Broad St, 13 East, so Center Square is not at all central, and 8-13-21 belong too to the Fibonacci sequence (1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21-34...).<br />It's quite unlikely anyone could have planned this, as Fibonacci numbers were in the 18th century far from their actual popularity, and the strangest thing is that this perfect Fibo scheme appeared in two steps, first the repartition 3-5 from North to South, then the repartition 8-13 from East to West.<br />Actually the grid 9x22 shown on several maps was more a project than a real city, although the streets were probably traced on the ground, but Old City first developed on the Delaware side, and the State House was built there, far from Penn's Center Square which does not appear on this <a href="http://www.pagenealogy.net/maps/Phila%20-%20Howe%20Survey%20-%201777.jpg">1777 map</a>.<br />Yet this grid was then used for the city extension, and it's quite clear on this <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/philadelphia_1842.jpg">1842 map</a>:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsANhj4Lz69rjisv9rKaw5bXORkyc8N6-EJ23o1aWzgKpwMuqPEe9RAbIT0HG9XgmsrfDngKURh9STXD_hA227UxrxwAWVVM_OTapgDUzxIiAs7NGPUoZRp9eX3mR07CFJN1BuLNr9CdF/s1600/phi1842.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 2px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 205px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638511645541324946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsANhj4Lz69rjisv9rKaw5bXORkyc8N6-EJ23o1aWzgKpwMuqPEe9RAbIT0HG9XgmsrfDngKURh9STXD_hA227UxrxwAWVVM_OTapgDUzxIiAs7NGPUoZRp9eX3mR07CFJN1BuLNr9CdF/s400/phi1842.JPG" /></a> Center Square is now Penn Square, and there are 8 streets West of Broad Street, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg5VM6N_WBNGz_ckPcE6q0J9G0GtC-ZxmoD53IacBoNRHVuwfA97lMQYuhkAIyoWmY9lm3SV4AQMiRfyh6pmkqgZ7stnaOgsISznFm5f5i9DxU_q9qAO0QDGfDTLqqd4li5lEZee1Z_5d/s1600/8_13.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 99px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 169px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637277885164232866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg5VM6N_WBNGz_ckPcE6q0J9G0GtC-ZxmoD53IacBoNRHVuwfA97lMQYuhkAIyoWmY9lm3SV4AQMiRfyh6pmkqgZ7stnaOgsISznFm5f5i9DxU_q9qAO0QDGfDTLqqd4li5lEZee1Z_5d/s320/8_13.JPG" /></a>named from (Schuykill) Front St (which is too 1st St) to 8th St, and 13 streets East of Broad Street, named from (Delaware) Front St (which is too 1st St) to 13th St.<br />The Fibo scheme goes on with a third step, as there are now 13 main streets crossing Broad St, apart of High St, 5 streets North of it, and 8 streets South.<br />It's possible to get it a little bigger with a click on the map, but I suggest to do this on the <a href="http://dfsimola.com/images/philly/philadelphiacc.jpg">next map</a>, in the beginning of the 20th century, where the 21+13 important streets appear more clearly, and it's necessary to get it on another window, as there are many important details:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzFt5Bvb_7eiwxPVV26yxzsQwRKLIs4oEbXf7do6Gd_6iFQmXyDI6ISahlxgEA_V2LYr7b9B79-BsvOoum0D7Cl5EZE_gWojU8_aujVca01hDRS8v1N5Db3CLzdW447IW0AEJgysRq-jy/s1600/phi1920.JPG" target="_blank"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 2px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639247694946850738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzFt5Bvb_7eiwxPVV26yxzsQwRKLIs4oEbXf7do6Gd_6iFQmXyDI6ISahlxgEA_V2LYr7b9B79-BsvOoum0D7Cl5EZE_gWojU8_aujVca01hDRS8v1N5Db3CLzdW447IW0AEJgysRq-jy/s400/phi1920.JPG" /></a> The 8 and 13 streets were renamed from Delaware Front St, still Front st or 1st St, to 22nd St for Schuylkill Front St. There is no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Street_(Philadelphia)">14th Street</a>, which is Broad St. High St is now Market.<br />At least William Penn's wishes were remembered, and on Penn's Square was built the new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_City_Hall">City Hall</a>, which was designed originally to be the world's tallest building, but by the time it was completed, in 1901, it had already been surpassed by several other places.<br />The ratio of two successive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence converges on Phi, the Golden Ratio, 1.618... So I applied PhiMatrix, a tool developed by Gary Meisner, webmaster of a Phi dedicated <a href="http://www.goldennumber.net/">site</a>.<br />I applied the grid on the historic city, between the two front streets and between Vine St and Cedar St, now South St. The validity of the results depends on the rightness of the map, and GoogleEarth will roughly confirm them.<br />Not surprising the main Phi lines (thin blue) follow Broad St, quite near the middle, and Market St, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Oq5QutdIey5oCD7Nl3bTbswsRmYCbSEcMtMCqPW02LmpWAEBNujtdwFzGVxVbbCICDaU1UiFjKi36qFTkS3ys_KF9bI-RY6I7almTKmnHiuqa1X7ONYnTHN186R9-AKFHajr3KDKQDjl/s1600/penn.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637387656205992306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Oq5QutdIey5oCD7Nl3bTbswsRmYCbSEcMtMCqPW02LmpWAEBNujtdwFzGVxVbbCICDaU1UiFjKi36qFTkS3ys_KF9bI-RY6I7almTKmnHiuqa1X7ONYnTHN186R9-AKFHajr3KDKQDjl/s200/penn.JPG" /></a>rather at the limit of the North sidewalk, but this little imperfection has a strange consequence. I marked with a yellow cross the intersection of these two lines, falling on City Hall which is not a symmetrical building. Quite near the 'Phi center' arises the tall 548 ft tower, with William Penn's statue on top of it.<br />I marked another interesting intersection: East of Broad St we have a kind of 13 x 13 blocks square, and the Phi lines in this square follow nearly the middles of the streets corresponding to the 8-5 Fibo cut, Walnut St and 6th St, crossing right between Washington Square and Independance Hall Square. It's funny thinking the Founding Fathers probably stepped many times this crossroad, between what were in 1776 State House and South East Square.<br />A 'Phi eye' sees something in the four Squares, which are now far from being symmetrical to Broad St, and I used again PhiMatrix to show a golden rectangle (transparent blue) which superposes roughly to the rectangle <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2frlukNot0ckbtu8X_gqsq5f8xrYVTTtNJcOFCQtLu8MGv5UqHWqnyCjhzBa0ISUIOG85ymJOP8I5M_8w__nqoumh_2YA7pCEXqXzhU6SZPDaMoTu3faAYmz9MdD35KGBy1-7_j_bQzB/s1600/phi1920.JPG" target="_blank"><img style="float:right; margin:5 0 2px 6px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2frlukNot0ckbtu8X_gqsq5f8xrYVTTtNJcOFCQtLu8MGv5UqHWqnyCjhzBa0ISUIOG85ymJOP8I5M_8w__nqoumh_2YA7pCEXqXzhU6SZPDaMoTu3faAYmz9MdD35KGBy1-7_j_bQzB/s200/phi1920.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644427591282707458" /></a>between the four external corners. GoogleEarth will show this rectangle might have been more precisely a golden one.<br />Here is another use of PhiMatrix on the same map, with thicker lines (click to enlarge).<br /><br />Now I'll try to explain how I came to associate Philadelphia with Phi and Fibonacci. Many people learnt about these with the best selling <em>Da Vinci Code</em>,<a style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0em; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLOTdZTkVDi1kAXLCv0piUZsFup7Z4g0Ggk8JqN6bEU6gz77ZPpjFYn6lYls89PmIrpIv-w2fAB7jvfrGfC2MDKgUir5uCZl2nL81albKiIKqy3iFHMR_8WaylADFHLQz0kc2hskj4JU/s1600/dvcorrect.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLOTdZTkVDi1kAXLCv0piUZsFup7Z4g0Ggk8JqN6bEU6gz77ZPpjFYn6lYls89PmIrpIv-w2fAB7jvfrGfC2MDKgUir5uCZl2nL81albKiIKqy3iFHMR_8WaylADFHLQz0kc2hskj4JU/s200/dvcorrect.JPG" width="200" height="64" /></a> which begins with an enigma associating an anagram of Leonardo Da Vinci (O draconian devil) with the disordered first numbers of Fibonacci sequence (13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5), to be rightly ordered to get the code of a safe.<br />I was amazed because I knew a 1932 crime novel, <em>The Greek Coffin Mystery</em>, by Ellery Queen, dealing with the robbery of a Da Vinci painting, as well as offering a Fibo pattern.<br />The novel presents a strange table, with 34 chapters divided<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYRplO-iVdByjkn2AfpoYaMYLNEsVWr3Nk9_I57O2QqUcRFF-xDAWwKEh98JYONa8cSq4d8EBJYRX6Ybdk4ubFxHPCJ96DWAhlg7rwmne3rvSN5QIueChwIc12JIg27HFNF7mwic8b0oY/s1600/cophin.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 7px; WIDTH: 155px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639508676560019538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYRplO-iVdByjkn2AfpoYaMYLNEsVWr3Nk9_I57O2QqUcRFF-xDAWwKEh98JYONa8cSq4d8EBJYRX6Ybdk4ubFxHPCJ96DWAhlg7rwmne3rvSN5QIueChwIc12JIg27HFNF7mwic8b0oY/s200/cophin.JPG" /></a> in two books, giving in acrostics the title in 21 letters, and BY ELLERY QUEEN in 13 letters.<br />This was the only Queen novel with such a trick, and some clues might show the Fibo pattern was intended, as<br />- the association with Greece, where the Golden Ratio was discovered over 2000 years ago (after that Da Vinci is the most famous artist associated with the Golden Ratio).<br />- 'coffin' is a Greek word, <em>kophinos</em>, κόφινος, written with a Phi, φ, and the Fibo cut 13-8 of the title would fall on that Phi, THEGREEKCOFFI - NMYSTERY.<br />- this novel is the 4th of a series of 9 with titles <em>Nation-Noun-Mystery</em>; these nine novels totalize 233 chapters, 13th Fibo.<br />- I noticed very soon there was 3 <em>Mysteries</em> before that very special one, and 5 after, long before I paid attention to the 3 streets North of High St, and to the 5 streets South, on the old Philadelphia map.<br /><br />Queen gave up the pattern <em>Nation-Noun-Mystery</em> with his 10th novel, <em>Halfway House</em> (1936). A man is discovered dead in a house near Trenton, and there are found a brandnew car and an old one, rich clothes and poor clothes... He used this house to change identity, spending a part of the week in<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR0Rk8hm-DRJ9e5monF_fxTnMKVC4ahSWwFJ5j7valnkuKiIY8iTusS26qvgmb2fgAWTi-DslSJbdto-sPSOeG5fF0sfLn1ZuqFVhQ5PdhvxgoGcoUdWKnorIEVEmC6OD4WJ-ynHC4IZO/s1600/halfway.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 130px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637410906897426450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR0Rk8hm-DRJ9e5monF_fxTnMKVC4ahSWwFJ5j7valnkuKiIY8iTusS26qvgmb2fgAWTi-DslSJbdto-sPSOeG5fF0sfLn1ZuqFVhQ5PdhvxgoGcoUdWKnorIEVEmC6OD4WJ-ynHC4IZO/s200/halfway.JPG" /></a> Philadelphia, with his young wife Lucy, aged 31, and the other part in New York with his other wife, older rich heiress Jessica, 49.<br />I came to find that, if not geographically, Trenton was, using gematria (A=1, B=2, and so on), exactly halfway between<br />PHILADELPHIA = 101<br />and NEW YORK = 111<br />as TRENTON = 106 (101+5 or 111-5)<br />This <a href="http://www.gef.free.fr/gem.php?texte=phi+la+del+phia%0Atren+ton%0Anew+york">tool</a> allows to check it up.<br />The two syllables of NEW YORK = 42/69 are in a fair golden ratio, so I came to study the four syllables of Phi-la-del-phia, where first one Phi might stand for the Golden Ratio, 1.618… Next syllables give successive numbers in the Fibo sequence:<br />LA = 13<br />DEL = 21<br />PHIA = 34<br />So it's easy to understand how much I was struck when I found there were 34 streets besides the two main streets of Philadelphia, divided in 21+13.<br />Of course the name Philadelphia came from the Antiquity and had nothing to do with such calculations, and the name Phi for the Golden Ratio was given in the beginning of the 20th century.<br /><br />The particular 13-21-34 Fibo numbers allow an unique arithmetical curiosity. When using the common rounded value 1.618 for Phi, we have<br />1.618 x 13 = 21.034<br />which could be written too<br />Phi x LA = DEL. PHIA<br /><br />I'm not sure Queen knew about that, yet his work is full of most subtle tricks, sometimes revealed, sometimes left to the reader's sagacity.<br />Among the revealed that might concern this case, there is a woman named <strong>Lia Mason</strong>, which turns out to be an anagram of <strong>Mona Lisa</strong>, in <em>Ten Days' Wonder </em>(1948).<br />The alphabet rank of a letter is important in several books, and in <em>A Fine and Private Place</em> (1971), a man changes his name in order to get a more suitable gematria.<br /><br />About gematria, I found that<br />WILLIAM / PENN = 79/49 = 1.612...<br />This is a fair golden ratio between integers, as 79/Phi = 48.8..., and 49xPhi = 79.2... A study of lists of real names shows there's about 1% of such 'golden names'.<br /><br />I already spoke of Queen's wit about Easter dates in <a href="http://quaternity4.blogspot.com/2011/04/3-queen_04.html">Quaternity</a>, I have something <a href="http://remi.schulz.perso.neuf.fr/queen/summer.htm">here</a> in English about maths in his most personal novel, <em>The Golden Summer</em> (my longer French study involves the golden number and Fibonacci).<br /><br />So we have seen Philly in the centuries 17-18-19-20, how is she today?<br />GoogleEarth gives a good idea, and allows precise measurements.<br />Here's the GoogleMap I studied, it can be enlarged with a click on it:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymBIRgIKVf0SRUH8NcV-_f70Isq2ttU9clfW6-JbSTN6a8jbAvIO3qBTjwQsbUYax6l_-LOPvyHIXEqRyv3Cq9MC0Zm0cabfDh_-UFRw8moUTzNsjCNKN4Iz3nRIXRt7VfG-95_Y-9IPh/s1600/PhiGoogle.JPG" target="_blank"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 2px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637242180217221682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymBIRgIKVf0SRUH8NcV-_f70Isq2ttU9clfW6-JbSTN6a8jbAvIO3qBTjwQsbUYax6l_-LOPvyHIXEqRyv3Cq9MC0Zm0cabfDh_-UFRw8moUTzNsjCNKN4Iz3nRIXRt7VfG-95_Y-9IPh/s400/PhiGoogle.JPG" /></a>I'll first invite to check my measurements on GoogleEarth.<br />I began with finding the original perimeter (in red) of the historic city. It's not easy in the North as a good part of <em>Vine Street</em> left place to a large expressway, yet a part of old <em>Vine Street</em> remains in the East, allowing an extrapolation towards West.<br />In yellow <em>Broad Street</em> and <em>Market Street</em>.<br />Of course the measurements today can't be exactly what they were when the city started, as the streets were enlarged, anyhow I don't try to prove anything, I just explore this strange case of a city accidentally built on a Fibo pattern.<br />So from East <em>Front Street</em> to West <em>Front Street</em> (now <em>22nd St</em>) I find 9734 ft, trying to start from the buildings. Golden section of 9734 is 6016, and from Front St to the middle line of Broad St I find 6055 ft.<br />From South St to old Vine St I found 5275 ft (quite near a mile). The Golden section of it is 3260, and I found 3200 ft to the middle line of <em>Market St</em>.<br />In both cases the Phi lines fall in these main axes, which are now broader than 100 ft. Placing the points of measurements in the middle of the peripheral streets would make the Phi Center about coinciding with the tower of the City Hall, and William Penn's statue.<br /><br />The title of this post is inspired by the movie Philadelphia Experiment, but there's too a movie titled <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_(film)">Philadelphia</a></em>, by Jonathan Demme (1993), which I had the curiosity to watch again. It's about 115' long on the DVD, forgetting last 5' of full credits, and these 115' show a fair golden ratio between the two main parts, the exposure of the case, a gay lawyer fired from his firm cause he's infected with AIDS, and the trial which is held in City Hall.<br />Between these two parts there is a long aerian travelling above the City Hall, first showing William Penn's statue.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ64wiJuX_RPrjCxx_PioCMxaufhccNpuELT6Q-yN21shIk7kRPKz16HsHlmXsmVm1vRca1Rttc788CYTSyEBke37SxAkM_7jbu6iIbzqsX7TpoYEHipOVFWML_r9RMXCmboO_OoNFec8e/s1600/la-del.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 2px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637981403673252994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ64wiJuX_RPrjCxx_PioCMxaufhccNpuELT6Q-yN21shIk7kRPKz16HsHlmXsmVm1vRca1Rttc788CYTSyEBke37SxAkM_7jbu6iIbzqsX7TpoYEHipOVFWML_r9RMXCmboO_OoNFec8e/s320/la-del.JPG" /></a><br />This reminded me of Queen's <em>Halfway House</em>, which is divided in five parts, the middle one being <em>The Trial</em>. This case is judged in Trenton, but the opening Milton's quote might be meaningful:<blockquote>Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial<br />To my proportion'd strength.</blockquote><br />Gary Meisner, the developer of PhiMatrix, writes 5 'phive', as it's a key number to 'Phi Guys', for Phi depends on the square root of 5, for the 5th 'Phibo' is 5....<br />This leads me to my most astonishing measurement. It's difficult to measure the rectangle between the external corners of the four squares, as the two North squares have been modified, especially Logan Square. Yet it's possible to have an idea of their North limit by extrapolating what is left of the old Vine St, and I found a height of 3752 ft, which is very near the golden section of the length 6082 ft, 3758.<br />Yet this is quite virtual, and it's more sure to take the measurement between the centers of Washington Square and Rittenhouse <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaM2QUPiCtjr-z33LJ5EvDxd_rdeCuisG_H_uqpFovqCKKsKDH87xo8qtf5T6w3N7TBAJgoUMchMNVueePxCbca7PICbF-abDkWIkYgZ0IU6QU0gJm9dS6iRYwt4K89GkkfV8Ko1_C7bp/s1600/WSfountain.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 132px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640376064538225170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaM2QUPiCtjr-z33LJ5EvDxd_rdeCuisG_H_uqpFovqCKKsKDH87xo8qtf5T6w3N7TBAJgoUMchMNVueePxCbca7PICbF-abDkWIkYgZ0IU6QU0gJm9dS6iRYwt4K89GkkfV8Ko1_C7bp/s200/WSfountain.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs2r0fjQ45fs7VBtgLuMcYnS4Zzw-QWwi6At2-9MRcz4a1TDNhSn5i0lyUpezopezsDBJYhyubRQl2ob_vE1Te73eQHhSGOMoxB3rCM_ePRj2TU7Q_axOa26ufB0GFt0pjm798coIP3eOA/s1600/ritten.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 139px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637346973987462930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs2r0fjQ45fs7VBtgLuMcYnS4Zzw-QWwi6At2-9MRcz4a1TDNhSn5i0lyUpezopezsDBJYhyubRQl2ob_vE1Te73eQHhSGOMoxB3rCM_ePRj2TU7Q_axOa26ufB0GFt0pjm798coIP3eOA/s200/ritten.JPG" /></a>Square, materialized by a fountain and by a hexagonal cabin. While just trying to get the most exact measurement between the two centers of these centers, I found 5555 ft.<br />5555 is a strange number by itself, and it factorizes in 101 x 55, 101 which is the gematria of PHILADELPHIA, 55 which is the 10th Fibonacci number, and the gematria of DEL-PHIA = 21+34.<br />The golden section of 5555 is 3433, and the 5555 ft line crosses the middle line of Broad Street at 3441 ft.<br /><br />To come back to Jung, the discovery of the pattern 4-1 in his life around the 4/4/44 led me to think about the numbers 4444, 1111, and 5555. This is why I began this blog with five posts posted at 11:11 on 4/4, 2010. I was too lazy to write anything else within a year, so I waited last 4/4 to do the same trick.<br />I feel now a bit obliged to give some hints about Jung and the golden ratio, what I first didn't intend to do. I have a long practice of gematria, in several alphabets. When I learnt the name of the doctor that saved Jung in 44, and maybe died in his stead, I noticed the following<br />HAEMMERLI / JUNG = 84/52 = 21/13 ≈ Phi<br />as 13 and 21 are two successive Fibo numbers.<br />Jung's report of his 1944 visions might have been the first NDE case reported. Jung and Haemmerli met in the other world, the world of death, and both came back. In our Western tradition, what might seem the nearest could be the cases of Enoch and Elijah, the only two characters of the Old Testament that didn't die, and were raised directly to Heaven. In the Hebrew alphabet, using the traditional gematria, these two people have the same values as Haemmerli and Jung in our modern alphabet:<br />- חנוך (Enoch) = 84<br />- אליהו (Elijah) = 52<br />When I found a few days after the 136th anniversary of Jung's birth (84+52) this incredible story of Philadelphia built on a Fibo pattern, notably 21 x 13, I thought it had a relation with Jung, in one way or another, and that I had to share it here.<br /><br /> William Penn had the rare privilege to become a <a class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Citizen of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_Citizen_of_the_United_States">Honorary Citizen of the United States</a>. This was done by <a href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/112884a.htm">Presidential Proclamation 5284</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ambigram.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/03_mark_a.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:5px 6px 2px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 127px;" src="http://www.ambigram.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/03_mark_a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>PS - Sep, 19: I quoted higher the use of Fibonacci Sequence in <em>Da Vinci Code</em>, and I just discovered that one of John Langdon's best ambigrams concerns Philadelphia. Dan Brown's character Robert Langdon owes his name to this artist.<br /></div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-14664410954538482232011-04-04T11:11:00.058-08:002011-08-11T07:29:31.339-08:001: Books of the Week<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-XI-LMR3fzEXLZ69dZctXBRzm7ObEYWaNjnv6JM5umcBkXICM5gzP7BUo1p6QF3_PZgTC0EIlwgEcIGq7f0l6gu084JmUMgX1imZXeNnt3_yCt7KJB9GJaYCPXbtFUEopfzCwcNMboRIg/s1600/apr44.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: -35px 0px 0px 6px;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-XI-LMR3fzEXLZ69dZctXBRzm7ObEYWaNjnv6JM5umcBkXICM5gzP7BUo1p6QF3_PZgTC0EIlwgEcIGq7f0l6gu084JmUMgX1imZXeNnt3_yCt7KJB9GJaYCPXbtFUEopfzCwcNMboRIg/s320/apr44.JPG" width="273" /></a>Jung's life turned on 4/4/44, and this Tuesday belonged to the Holy Week from Apr 2, 1944, Palm Sunday, to Apr 9, Easter Sunday (red letter day on this calendar).
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<br />This Holy Week could be a very special one, as Jewish Easter (Pessah, Passover) fell this year 1944 on 4/8, a Saturday, as it seems to have been the case in the original Passion. This peculiarity helped to date the Crucifixion on April 7, 30, a date which was long granted for good. It seems now English sources like better April 3, 33, while French sources still prefer April 7, 30.
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<br />The important thing might not be reality, if there is any, but what people knew about it in their time, and April 7, 30 was for example the date given in <em>Jesus in his time</em> by Daniel-Rops (1945). I came to find that 1944 is the first Gregorian year when Good Friday falls on April 7 and Pessah on 8, as in 30 CE, and this will not come back before 2479. There might have been Julian years (from 326 to 1582) that would fit, but Julian calendar was wrong as soon as the 2nd century.
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<br />I discovered this while enquiring on a very strange novel, <em>And on the Eighth Day</em>...,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yCWuHK3mPVy1yA0mQOb8ORfReL3ZV6CU7cGl1EDbsP-0e5WNXEAZALqklBUS0wLElJ7A5X5F4eYcHpLUnQSvkDbq4Iy-a9p5w1-nphNrP3Bu3spuTPkw47WtESxbP7iXjrlZdCVqyCc1/s1600/8day.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yCWuHK3mPVy1yA0mQOb8ORfReL3ZV6CU7cGl1EDbsP-0e5WNXEAZALqklBUS0wLElJ7A5X5F4eYcHpLUnQSvkDbq4Iy-a9p5w1-nphNrP3Bu3spuTPkw47WtESxbP7iXjrlZdCVqyCc1/s200/8day.JPG" width="132" /></a> written in 1964 by Ellery Queen (aka Fred Dannay), which is a parody of the Passion, set in 8 chapters titled from Sunday 2 April to Sunday 9 April, happening in 1944 in a kind of Essenian community somewhere in the Californian desert. The Teacher is killed by his people on 7th at sunset, i.e. on Christian Good Friday as well as on the very beginning of Jewish Pessah.
<br />I've been for long interested in Easter dates in literature, notably in crime books. Two months before I found the pattern around 4/4/44 in Jung's life, I came to distinguish a special category that covers exactly a Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, because I found in July 2008 a new text following such a pattern.
<br />I already knew of two other ones, discovered both in April 1997, in strange conditions. In even stranger conditions I came to find two more books offering the same pattern in Oct 2008, a month after my 4/4/44 discovery.
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<br />I'll give details in the next posts, now I'll try to study the set of the five texts together, and here they are, following the chronology of Easter weeks:
<br />1889 - <em>The Decorator</em> by Boris Akunin (1999)
<br />1895 - <em>The Perfume Of The Lady In Black</em> by Gaston Leroux (1909)
<br />1944 - <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em> by Ellery Queen (1964)
<br />1996 - <em>Four Corners of Night</em> by Craig Holden (1999)
<br />2001 - <em>5</em> (2001) That's a French collection of short stories about the 5 senses, and the short <em>Little Green Apples</em> by Sébastien Fevry is in 8 sections from Sunday, April 8 to Sunday, April 15 (the 2001 Holy Week).
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEIifW1lELwVp7itnQdeumwt_hTZfErESrmlM69jnDawTPpiuk6k9in2X0drgCxyF4ex_wGXc1XqyWRni59Pfc3WxcownU8FrS9cvsNdCy8MySn2z7BIaEdxDH89AwGTf-MvxI8DqgXDpF/s1600/specialA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEIifW1lELwVp7itnQdeumwt_hTZfErESrmlM69jnDawTPpiuk6k9in2X0drgCxyF4ex_wGXc1XqyWRni59Pfc3WxcownU8FrS9cvsNdCy8MySn2z7BIaEdxDH89AwGTf-MvxI8DqgXDpF/s200/specialA.JPG" width="123" /></a></div>I found these five books by chance, and each finding was so incredible that I won't be surprised if these five books were the only one, at least the only ones easily available in France. Three of them are by best-selling authors (French, American and Russian), but from so different times that it's unlikely many people read them all.
<br />Then American Craig Holden is not very known, he has no wikipedia file yet, and I don't think his work was translated in many languages. Happily it was in French.
<br />The last book from 2001 was only published in French, in 2000 copies, and I would probably never have known of it if I didn't publish a book with the same editor.
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<br />Now these five texts show quite amazing features, notably following the pattern of their discovery, 2-1-2, 2 together in April 1997, then 1 in July 08, and 2 together in October 08.
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaB7KpV9h38DzljxuzMWj3IASlyF7rw9n0JHsi8p5goNYZLKiPQA8GjvTINuGdHuTF-pm_BNtXxTookS_hoqGYe9N-_6fyCUdCJdnFspondY-PSwqPReZ29uDIq5g3XXVmjcbqw2i1XUW1/s1600/podalydes.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaB7KpV9h38DzljxuzMWj3IASlyF7rw9n0JHsi8p5goNYZLKiPQA8GjvTINuGdHuTF-pm_BNtXxTookS_hoqGYe9N-_6fyCUdCJdnFspondY-PSwqPReZ29uDIq5g3XXVmjcbqw2i1XUW1/s200/podalydes.JPG" width="152" /></a></div>They repeat this pattern in different ways:
<br />- there are 2 French books, 1 Russian, 2 American.
<br />- 2 texts (Queen and Holden) are whole independant novels, so published; Fevry's was published in a collection of short stories and Akunin's is a short novel always published with another one in <i>Special Assignments</i>; the other novel, by Leroux, was published either as a complete book, either as the second part of a volume including Rouletabille's first investigation, <em>The Mystery of the Yellow Room</em>.
<br />- 2 (Holden and Akunin) clearly state the action is during the Holy Week, ending on Easter Sunday; 1 (Leroux) gives an allusion to Easter time, the 2 others don't give any allusion.
<br />- 2 (Holden and Fevry) have an action contemporary with their writing, 2 (Leroux and Queen) are written slightly after the events (14 and 20 years), and 1 is written 110 years later.
<br />- The Holy Weeks draw a kind of perfect pattern with 1944 in the middle (actually the exact average date is 1945, 1889+1895+1944+1996+2001 = 9725 = 5 x 19<u><strong>45</strong></u> and the two extreme dates give 1889+2001 = 3890 = 2 x 19<u><strong>45</strong></u>.)
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<br />1944 and 1945 make me recall the 4-1 pattern I saw in WWII, starting from Sep 1, 1939 and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWouTylpD6VQ9q2Bj0AfWdJj7q9Q9TkPslh26OSmh90CcCjxhzRFjS9_1UjHDtKr9k4jCU7LT71FvLip0DVXVRJBr9MgWMwBqAqxMJjjW2Gxwy8nfJXMXqCxYk3F1KVcszY395b6MnKXh/s1600-h/FOURcorners.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256196358575612578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWouTylpD6VQ9q2Bj0AfWdJj7q9Q9TkPslh26OSmh90CcCjxhzRFjS9_1UjHDtKr9k4jCU7LT71FvLip0DVXVRJBr9MgWMwBqAqxMJjjW2Gxwy8nfJXMXqCxYk3F1KVcszY395b6MnKXh/s200/FOURcorners.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px;" /></a>ending with Aug 15, 1945, 2175 days of which 4/5ths fall exactly on D-Day.
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<br />At last the most astonishing thing is that 'my' 4th and 5th Books of the Week have 4 and 5 in their titles. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_s8SaPfaQBjJ0uJKu4RI-ilPXXG-Hp9aG6RSXbtvnYyYbv4tSw07wBpJnHMCd8qWjY720-UdgBGmCKM8_RKl2IwAGEyZ9soLj4ywJ4p3yL6nI3xfr5SQJS8mdVdOY1nZ0HOeySyk7vqAB/s1600-h/5.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219904048008832914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_s8SaPfaQBjJ0uJKu4RI-ilPXXG-Hp9aG6RSXbtvnYyYbv4tSw07wBpJnHMCd8qWjY720-UdgBGmCKM8_RKl2IwAGEyZ9soLj4ywJ4p3yL6nI3xfr5SQJS8mdVdOY1nZ0HOeySyk7vqAB/s200/5.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 5px 0px -2px 5px;" /></a>I have nothing to add to this as I didn't choose anything. Of course I might have known of hundred of such 'Books of the Week', then have chosen among them five items in order to show striking patterns, but all I can say is that I only know of these five books, and that I would be grateful to anyone that could indicate me any other book.
<br />Simple reason shouts it loud that there should be many such books, as I have only read a very low percentage of the millions of books published all over this world, yet I have a strong feeling that my case is quite against the odds.
<br />Next posts will try to justify this feeling.</div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-21152325874316196432011-04-04T11:11:00.057-08:002011-08-11T07:29:17.255-08:002: Leroux<div align="justify">In April 1997 I read <em>The Perfume of the Lady in Black</em>, a novel written in 1908 by Gaston Leroux. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpc41wYutMb_tuTaGfHq2hafcMRYB7c3ZAxrTH9qnvOgFwVsR1Aic-tY-MMeoBBssKErf3rTKq-E4Xn4dhwcHDX0LT6uDj1SabRn5ZaNx4TDghbsC4dXZxTyG83hW8GtSI0KAU7_9Q4E2n/s1600/yellow.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578763319221985730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpc41wYutMb_tuTaGfHq2hafcMRYB7c3ZAxrTH9qnvOgFwVsR1Aic-tY-MMeoBBssKErf3rTKq-E4Xn4dhwcHDX0LT6uDj1SabRn5ZaNx4TDghbsC4dXZxTyG83hW8GtSI0KAU7_9Q4E2n/s200/yellow.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 8px; width: 140px;" /></a> It follows <em>The Mystery of The Yellow Room</em>, where young journalist Joseph Rouletabille solves this 1892 mystery where the culprit was the inspector in charge of the case, most famous Fred Larsan, who was too most famous criminal Ballmeyer. He was too Rouletabille's father, and was supposed to have died then in a shipwreck...
<br />He seems yet to have resurrected on April 7, 1895, when Mathilde Stangerson, Rouletabille's mother,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5fiRV_L6U9VswRwhc9EBOTNUQ26ULfEK5uWwMuxZWpfujFtO1IlNvOjSqNmIEnmQMrqY0jz9e4dHpRTkkuWbNf1ESCmEp2o09sRwHX_b-kD8HKn7x2vky2NUd65vTQc6GEZOrApGbdj-/s1600/perfume.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578763314287465730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5fiRV_L6U9VswRwhc9EBOTNUQ26ULfEK5uWwMuxZWpfujFtO1IlNvOjSqNmIEnmQMrqY0jz9e4dHpRTkkuWbNf1ESCmEp2o09sRwHX_b-kD8HKn7x2vky2NUd65vTQc6GEZOrApGbdj-/s200/perfume.JPG" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 5px 8px 2px 0px; width: 142px;" /></a> calls him in urgency. She saw Larsan during her honeymoon trip! She spends her honeymoon in an old castle, on the French Riviera. A terrible week follows, as Larsan is a genius of disguise, and could be about anyone. A fight in Mathilde's room occurs in the night of the 12th, Larsan seems to have been killed by Mathilde's husband. Yet in the afternoon it's not so sure the man was really dead. And he was not, as at last Rouletabille demonstrates on the evening of the 13th that Larsan was Mathilde's husband. He waited until dark in order to discreetly evacuate Larsan to a secret prison, as nobody had to know Mathilde's infamous wedding, but Larsan suicides.
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<br />I happened to know that April 14 was Easter Sunday in 1895, as it's a prominent date in Maurice Leblanc's <em>The Golden Triangle</em> (1917, complete English text <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34795/34795-h/34795-h.htm">here</a>), in which Patrice and his lover Coralie are caught in a deadly trap on Apr 14, 1895. Twenty years later, another Patrice and another Coralie, son and daughter of the previous ones, are led towards each other by a mysterious destiny. They repeat their parents' story so tightly that they fall in the same trap on Apr 14, 1915, and are saved in extremis by Arsène Lupin.
<br />Patrice then learns that the mysterious destiny was run by his father, who came back from the dead in the evening of Apr 14, 1895, but found useful to be known dead in order to prepare his revenge. The father seems to have turned mad, as now he acts like an enemy, trying to kill Patrice and Coralie on Apr 14, 1915. Lupin will solve this enigma.
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<br />I found many things alike between the two books, the biggest one being the death of the father (real or not) on the same Easter day. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgZ8pRfG9roXsGgPVByjuCO88-6scL6528ZpycR4kObKzX77q_FXPjoC7_TzwJybhS-qQY92KzpWSQCcYLTBcO6Rcjdrd7lRYgiWoy0DVB_HGPV9jwQuDxs2s4dOnk_M2FImoEAF3EJNC/s1600/timbreJR.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578763316633159346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgZ8pRfG9roXsGgPVByjuCO88-6scL6528ZpycR4kObKzX77q_FXPjoC7_TzwJybhS-qQY92KzpWSQCcYLTBcO6Rcjdrd7lRYgiWoy0DVB_HGPV9jwQuDxs2s4dOnk_M2FImoEAF3EJNC/s200/timbreJR.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 8px; width: 131px;" /></a>There are other <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5SCE8leAX4Zi08qWTCCs_pf188qiREIuxPCoMXsPL2GfgOJO64Uxpz8MibV9BEQGytqczK_h8CAabb2kjnr6g9uCw4oH3G9bP_tdrCx9063vxyr4uKAwb31-VmMXFIt3pgBSkbF_xyu8/s1600/timbreAL.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578763518448839458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5SCE8leAX4Zi08qWTCCs_pf188qiREIuxPCoMXsPL2GfgOJO64Uxpz8MibV9BEQGytqczK_h8CAabb2kjnr6g9uCw4oH3G9bP_tdrCx9063vxyr4uKAwb31-VmMXFIt3pgBSkbF_xyu8/s200/timbreAL.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 5px 8px 5px 0px; width: 130px;" /></a>coincidences, as this striking one: in both books the hero, Rouletabille or Lupin, has found the truth, the real identity of the disguised murderer, but he delays its revelation, and this delay is the direct cause of another death, and in both stories the victim is a janitor.
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<br />Instead of the Son resurrecting on Sunday, the Father dies...
<br />There might be several allusions in both books to this status of counter-Passion, especially in Leroux's where Larsan is again supposed dead then resurrected on Good Friday. It's quite striking that one of his alias is Salvator Russel (given in the scene adaptation of the <em>Yellow Room Mystery</em>): <em>salvator</em>, 'saver', is the meaning of Jesus, Jeshua, whose human father was Joseph, name of Salvator's son, Joseph Joséphin later known as Rouletabille.
<br />Russel is an English equivalent of Leroux ('The Red'), so maybe Leroux identified a bit with his wicked character. Anyhow it's a strange coincidence he <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Leroux">died</a> on April 15, 1927, which was a Good Friday.
<br />Some months after I brought together the two novels, from the common date April 14, 1895, I came to see a documentary about Alfred Dreyfus, where was seen the beginning of his Devil's Island <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0A12FA3B591B728DDDAD0894DD405B818CF1D3">diary</a>, first sentence of which reading:
<br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><em>Sunday, April 14, 1895</em> </div>Today I begin the diary of my sad and tragical life.</blockquote>This led me to another look on both novels, and to find strong echoes with Dreyfus case. Here is the most striking one:
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFzEuA3fW9yE8IWx5y1ij5sFg7bXAWG9t8hPiml2NHEp0_KTaDlD8Z55chzAlv3I8wbpJPpKAqWb9pEEclX2rkI41sgCPzXz54-yNnDQ9hA9fWausz21WIIVPY1q4ILrUWziqMA7bAkwMo/s1600/AD.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFzEuA3fW9yE8IWx5y1ij5sFg7bXAWG9t8hPiml2NHEp0_KTaDlD8Z55chzAlv3I8wbpJPpKAqWb9pEEclX2rkI41sgCPzXz54-yNnDQ9hA9fWausz21WIIVPY1q4ILrUWziqMA7bAkwMo/s200/AD.JPG" width="151" /></a></div>- Frederic Larsan, commonly called Fred, is too Public Enemy number one Ballmeyer, sounding like a Jewish name. Rouletabille planned to take him on a craft after dawn on April 13, 1895, towards the discrete place where he would be kept for the rest of his life, but Larsan suicides, and that's his corpse that his son takes on the craft and drowns in the sea.
<br />- Alfred Dreyfus, called Fred by family and friends, was Public Enemy number one in 1895, when a plot made a traitor of him, probably because he was a Jew. He was offered the 'Way of Honor', i.e. to shoot himself, but he refused and was condemned to end his life on Devil's Island, where he would be the only prisoner. He arrived there in the afternoon of April 13, 1895, and Guyana time was about 5 hours late with French time, so it might be exactly at the same moment that the two Freds were taken on a craft to their last place...
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<br />I won't go any longer in this direction as I'm not trying to prove anything about Leroux's intentions in this novel. Somehow it has to be considered it might not be just a simple thriller.
<br />I feel sure anyhow Leroux didn't choose the dates by chance, and several clues show he knew perfectly that April 7 when the story begins was Palm Sunday in 1895.
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<br />I'm not so sure about Leblanc, who anyhow could not allow himself<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbtUpFMKjFlJUmvyN1iZWvrfz6tPQpSabGHKQCE6iLBU63fjZsuHGAQn3mtbOuntyS2XddT00ozZFjd6kPo9s_0dnCKOvDIjJqijIPtwUoUccdmpvJkg8o9d-tsPS5nolbvfTfTsF-bKZ/s1600/GoldTr.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbtUpFMKjFlJUmvyN1iZWvrfz6tPQpSabGHKQCE6iLBU63fjZsuHGAQn3mtbOuntyS2XddT00ozZFjd6kPo9s_0dnCKOvDIjJqijIPtwUoUccdmpvJkg8o9d-tsPS5nolbvfTfTsF-bKZ/s200/GoldTr.JPG" width="128" /></a> to write a clearly scandalous novel in 1917; WWI was raging and there was a censorship surveying literary works.
<br />Since I'm fascinated by the switch between Jung and his doctor on 4/4/44, I have another look at <em>The Golden Triangle</em> which begins in the evening of Apr 3, 1915. I keep on wondering about this:
<br />- The wicked man of the story, Essarès, tried to kill Patrice's father on Apr 14, 1895, but the father 'resurrected' on that Easter Sunday. He became Diodokis, and was accepted as a servant by Essarès.
<br />- Essarès succeeds in killing Diodokis on Apr 4, 1915, actually unaware it was Patrice's father, and it was another Easter Sunday! In order to escape to his enemies, Essarès then takes the place of Diodokis and arranges things so that Diodokis' corpse will be taken as himself. This switch will make the case quite tricky.
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<br />I have no trace of the exact days of my finding. The only thing made sure is that I heard on March 22, 1997, during a literary seminar, of a book giving strange insights on George Perec's work.
<br />I bought this book, in which some insights about Leroux made me curious to read him again, and that led me to <i>The Perfume</i>, which starts on Apr 6, 1895 with the wedding of the Lady in Black. It was the eve of Palm Sunday, as was curiously enough March 22, 1997.</div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-4130324409855592342011-04-04T11:11:00.056-08:002011-08-11T07:29:05.078-08:003: Queen<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMcHU9mQXCdGfn-foROpJ9s9lzopon3VgI6qcg6wbiW9HZQ5kGDYHorBUTbqzHMGiQGIGu6qlYSdT8l41FmFqlEnjyAAVtKkHMQ7hei70dafUTX9lZYLSPljn0dMUAGb_aC-z4FA2T93O/s1600/8thday.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: -25px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 128px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528204301022726274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMcHU9mQXCdGfn-foROpJ9s9lzopon3VgI6qcg6wbiW9HZQ5kGDYHorBUTbqzHMGiQGIGu6qlYSdT8l41FmFqlEnjyAAVtKkHMQ7hei70dafUTX9lZYLSPljn0dMUAGb_aC-z4FA2T93O/s200/8thday.JPG" /></a><div align="justify">In April 1997, as told in previous post, I discovered the common points between <em>The Perfume of the Lady in Black</em>, by Leroux, and <em>The Golden Triangle</em>, by Leblanc (quite colored mysteries, as Leroux and Leblanc mean 'red' and 'white'). I spent several days deeply immerged in both books, studying each and every word, until I decided I had enough and chose to read a book just for the sake of it.
<br />My choice was <a href="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Books/and_on_the_eight_day_.html"><i>And on the Eighth Day</i>...</a>, by Ellery Queen (1964), that I recently bought as there was a French reedition of it in March 97. I read much Queen about fifteen years ago, including this one, and felt like reading some of it again, but my choice was first coming from its recent availability.
<br />So I went into it, and soon came to wonder, though there was not in my French edition the table of chapters of the original one:<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip1Dj4fAHSxY4ZxUnTXok1nvBx8WrzyhkEZnIyP2gyDJVzEWWSL_tFBPUoyURNyJPajIOsZUrC8hkFQxAHKojkH7VECy6R1F3fvTUOl1sjmf6_0AeIPqCfCePQcbKmeIiKdhC4LgIZKQKq/s1600/mon.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip1Dj4fAHSxY4ZxUnTXok1nvBx8WrzyhkEZnIyP2gyDJVzEWWSL_tFBPUoyURNyJPajIOsZUrC8hkFQxAHKojkH7VECy6R1F3fvTUOl1sjmf6_0AeIPqCfCePQcbKmeIiKdhC4LgIZKQKq/s320/mon.JPG" width="320" height="182" /></a></div>It was about a religious community in the desert, in 1944, led by an old man called the Teacher, helped by Twelve ministers. The Teacher is sentenced to death on Thursday, killed on Friday, and on next Sunday his double arrives strangely in the community.
<br />It was just a formality to check that the week involved was the Holy Week of 1944, but I was quite puzzled to find in this novel some of the tricks I imagined in Leblanc's and Leroux's, as:
<br />- anagram : one of the twelve is Storicai, anagram for Iscariot, and he betrays the Teacher for 30 coins of silver... In Leblanc's there was a character named Fakhi, whom I saw as Caiaphas (in French 'Caïphe', phonetic anagram of Fakhi).
<br />- allusion to the moon, as the first full moon of Spring rules the Easter date : the detective coming in the community has his watch giving moon cycle, while Leroux gave several mentions of the brightness of the moon.
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<br />Anyhow it's quite certain this novel is a parody of the Passion, and it was seen before me, yet its exact purpoise stays unclear.
<br />Ellery Queen was from 1929 to 1958 an alias for two cousins working together, Dannay creating plots, Lee completing them. Their disagreements led to a clash in 1958 and to decide not to write together anymore. Yet Lee thought it was stupid to leave the famous signature Queen, and many new novels were published under this name, ghostwritten by more or less minor writers.
<br />This freed Dannay to publish mystical plots that Lee had been reluctant to complete<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMKtZD0Ak1V02FiMKdtCj8FkxbtW1Hf_j1SlDkO77dlM2cObqzi6IwptsvGzoyFPfu07I2DovhnE7uFHIJ71CCg3gDpYLQbQDGguFzh_S0CqikZWojV_vxzABLDC9Cxa95PmWvinCtw6YB/s1600-h/jhwhformosa.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 8px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 165px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262321432364494322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMKtZD0Ak1V02FiMKdtCj8FkxbtW1Hf_j1SlDkO77dlM2cObqzi6IwptsvGzoyFPfu07I2DovhnE7uFHIJ71CCg3gDpYLQbQDGguFzh_S0CqikZWojV_vxzABLDC9Cxa95PmWvinCtw6YB/s200/jhwhformosa.JPG" /></a>, and in 1963 came <em><a href="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Books/player_on_the_other_side_.html">The Player on the Other Side</a></em>, in which a man born on April 20, 1924, Easter Sunday, takes himself for God. Then comes the Passion of <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em>, then comes a set of 4 novels with a common theme, crime of <strong>passion</strong>!
<br />There is a quite unusual trick in this set, as the 3rd novel, <em>The Last Woman in his Life</em> (1970), begins on the day the 2nd one ended, <em>Face to Face</em> (1967), and most readers of <em>Woman</em> have probably missed the clue, only given in <em>Face</em>, that this day was Monday in the Holy Week, so next Sunday on which a murder is committed is Easter Sunday. The victim is John Benedict III, killed at 3:03 AM by 3 blows with a sculpture of the 3 monkeys.
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<br />So <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em> should be studied among all Dannay's plots, that's not my purpoise here. What is sure is that it was inspired by recent discoveries about the Dead Sea scrolls, and I found that all what Dannay needed was in famous<em> The Dead Sea Scrolls</em> by Millar Burrows (1955).
<br />I found in this book that Qumran Essenians had a holy book which is now only known by an acronym, HGW or HGY (or <a href="http://www.google.fr/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSEA_frFR344FR344&q=hgw+hgy+%22dead+sea+scrolls%22#hl=fr&expIds=17259,17367,24815,26637,26992,27059&xhr=t&q=%22hgu%22+%22hgy%22+%22dead+sea+scrolls%22&cp=4&pf=p&sclient=psy&safe=off&rlz=1T4TSEA_frFR344FR344&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=%22hgu%22+%22hgy%22+%22dead+sea+scrolls%22&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=21f0c720bcfea990">hgu/hgy</a>), as letters <em>waw</em> and <em>yod</em> are quite alike in Hebrew/Aramaic. In Queen's the community of Quenan (subtle mix between Qumran and Queen) keeps in its 'sanquetum' a holy book, book Mk'h, or <a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=umF0AS-ljVUC&q=%22mk" dq="%22mk'n%22+ellery&hl=fr&ei=00i5TJSoBIGRjAen2KmxDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA"">Mk'n</a>, which was thought to be lost, but the Teacher found it in 1939. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutn4hTboD6Z5qQ8RIVC3CG7vW47sGda48Q14TNwXLDUjOQB3JBt4L8JT-Fq9YvKlYEfS2mMNkygx6BHOj9EBQHpV7DHfvMRssbIoYLSQFAtG2LePme3rrFy9jEzMWeHEIY_P0tg0g7Erg/s1600-h/mkh.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 8px; FLOAT: right" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256671031449203266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjutn4hTboD6Z5qQ8RIVC3CG7vW47sGda48Q14TNwXLDUjOQB3JBt4L8JT-Fq9YvKlYEfS2mMNkygx6BHOj9EBQHpV7DHfvMRssbIoYLSQFAtG2LePme3rrFy9jEzMWeHEIY_P0tg0g7Erg/s200/mkh.jpg" /></a>When he's allowed in the sanquetum, the detective discovers the terrible mistake: the holy ark contains <em><u>M</u>ein <u>K</u>ampf</em> by <u>H</u>itler.
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<br />Hitler, born on April 20, 1889, which was the eve of Easter Sunday, might be involved in the story because his birthday is the opposite of Dannay's own, October 20. The expression <em>And on the eighth day</em> occurs in the Bible, about the holiday of <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shemini_Atzeret">Shemini Atzeret</a></em>, which might have been Dannay's birthdate in 1905, if he was born after sunset. Maybe this could be checked, he was born in Brooklyn as Daniel Nathan on 10/20/1905.
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<br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em; cssfloat: left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKtWriENMIdJ_mKe6Jpxn6OP9UgG-2Ltxa7KsSc0BEWgB5JYUSrqNGu8gqE83VIlgldaqVFliJwDn9N0TSSuEkiUTWf1KVSUZWjRL47Alj_8O3K9VpMsR8M_aI9GXyTK1f_9m4CwPb09O/s1600/AH.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKtWriENMIdJ_mKe6Jpxn6OP9UgG-2Ltxa7KsSc0BEWgB5JYUSrqNGu8gqE83VIlgldaqVFliJwDn9N0TSSuEkiUTWf1KVSUZWjRL47Alj_8O3K9VpMsR8M_aI9GXyTK1f_9m4CwPb09O/s200/AH.JPG" width="137" height="140" r6="true" /></a></div>There is a kind of mystery about the apostrophe in Mk'h. I found that's in Burrows' the transliteration of Hebrew <em>alef</em>, also transliterated 'a', so <strong><u>' h</u></strong> might stand for <u>AH</u>, Adolf Hitler (Hebrew word AH means 'brother', which might have been for something in this George Steiner's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portage_to_San_Cristobal_of_A.H.">novella</a>).
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<br />Dale Andrews wrote in 2002 a short story, <em>Yet another Day</em>, on line <a href="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/EQ_script_2.html">here</a>, in which he imagines his meeting with old Ellery Queen, and asks him about the <em>Easter eggs</em> concealed in the novel.
<br />He made a clever hypothesis about Mk'n and its apostrophe, I find it better than mine, but maybe Dannay thought of them both...
<br />Anyhow, I thought too of Bible about this holy book kept in an ark by this new Essenian community, but Dale saw that Mk'n is quite near the acrostics used in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavPTvA2hqJ9fp7t8X1-NWStoWYhyphenhyphennTmSqtsQ1qIthZZ1Pl9aOFvL1sIrouLiv_Uy633_QAbILsPAnZ-OhuPIazQaMvMOP1IDv7MPCyNFwC1U1bC6AipsKOcpe7rvBuSL6iH23M8yD-6QW/s1600/Tnk.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 138px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528288313479174226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjavPTvA2hqJ9fp7t8X1-NWStoWYhyphenhyphennTmSqtsQ1qIthZZ1Pl9aOFvL1sIrouLiv_Uy633_QAbILsPAnZ-OhuPIazQaMvMOP1IDv7MPCyNFwC1U1bC6AipsKOcpe7rvBuSL6iH23M8yD-6QW/s200/Tnk.JPG" /></a>the Jewish world for the Bible, TN"K, read TaNaKh, in Hebrew letters ך"נת, or rather תנ"ך, following Hebrew writing from right to left.
<br />- T stands for <em>Tora</em>, Pentateuch also called Moses' books,
<br />- N stands for <em>Neviim</em>, Prophets,
<br />- " shows the expression is an acronym,
<br />- K stands for <em>Ketuvim</em>, Writings.
<br />With M for Moses (<em>Moshe</em>) instead of T for <em>Tora</em>, we would have MN"K which is quite near Mk'n of Quenanites.
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<br />I would have much more to say about this novel, but the Table of Chapters might have been sufficient to show it was a 'Book of the Week', my first purpose.
<br />When I first paid attention to the schematism of day 4/4/44 in Jung's life (on 4/4/4, Palm Sunday), I immediately thought of Queen's novel, <a href="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Library/38f_Eight.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 5px 0px 0px; WIDTH: 125px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Library/38f_Eight.jpg" /></a>and of the old Teacher's resurrection as a young (Jung) man.
<br />Four years later, when I found the 4-1 pattern in Jung's life, I thought of it again, and looked again to what happened on 4/4/44.
<br />Then the detective, named Ellery Queen as the author, is lost in the desert on 4/2/44, Palm Sunday. He meets the Teacher who brings him to Quenan. Next day he gets a bit acquainted with the place, and on 4/4/44 the Teacher calls him because during the previous night someone touched the one and only key of the sanquetum, in which only the Teacher can enter.
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<br />The one and only key might be a commonplace in crime fiction, yet it does not appear in each and every plot, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALPykZNDo3hOgPC5d6pwnyjjVRqud-wLLLGe28na-SJXawhLNOw9FkIKvE4yi46cyzMvjdiGg1fu_0iHFbNZCcKvDLoqneOO65FSYqt_wO0b9sb6A18BACoi6p15T5hY8VuPigwCNHi82/s1600-h/boll2+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291539297659282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALPykZNDo3hOgPC5d6pwnyjjVRqud-wLLLGe28na-SJXawhLNOw9FkIKvE4yi46cyzMvjdiGg1fu_0iHFbNZCcKvDLoqneOO65FSYqt_wO0b9sb6A18BACoi6p15T5hY8VuPigwCNHi82/s200/boll2+001.jpg" /></a>and thinking of Jung one has to recall he had a retiring room in the second tower of Bollingen, in which no one else was allowed except with his permission. Like the Teacher he kept the key with him all the time...
<br />It becomes amazing when observing this tower was square in his first state, in 1927, then Jung decided in 1931 to rebuild it, and to make it round. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5QCQi5IftOcL5ExsKJM_sx7o0vJUnYZDNfwwh3wSB6vjKw8tJaNBNygV4Po3TxD_UyRBe3iSSAT4K88dhM7YsiRU9x635MPS8KkdY-lpRQnoaeTjxNPQIWy6X3sGF32CBpZzEXBApvBVD/s1600-h/boll4+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291536237288930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5QCQi5IftOcL5ExsKJM_sx7o0vJUnYZDNfwwh3wSB6vjKw8tJaNBNygV4Po3TxD_UyRBe3iSSAT4K88dhM7YsiRU9x635MPS8KkdY-lpRQnoaeTjxNPQIWy6X3sGF32CBpZzEXBApvBVD/s200/boll4+001.jpg" /></a>
<br />In Leroux's castle of <i>The Perfume of the Lady in Black</i>, there is a Square Tower, the oldest part of the castle, in which the Lady and her husband have their room, and Rouletabille made sure there was a one and only key for it, and that it was always kept safe. Despite these precautions there is an assault there in the night of Good Friday 1895.
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<br />There is too a key story in Leblanc's <em>The Golden Triangle</em>, important enough to see this key on a frontcover (as on Queen's above).
<br /><a style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em; FLOAT: right; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; CLEAR: right; cssfloat: right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbtUpFMKjFlJUmvyN1iZWvrfz6tPQpSabGHKQCE6iLBU63fjZsuHGAQn3mtbOuntyS2XddT00ozZFjd6kPo9s_0dnCKOvDIjJqijIPtwUoUccdmpvJkg8o9d-tsPS5nolbvfTfTsF-bKZ/s1600/GoldTr.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbtUpFMKjFlJUmvyN1iZWvrfz6tPQpSabGHKQCE6iLBU63fjZsuHGAQn3mtbOuntyS2XddT00ozZFjd6kPo9s_0dnCKOvDIjJqijIPtwUoUccdmpvJkg8o9d-tsPS5nolbvfTfTsF-bKZ/s200/GoldTr.JPG" width="128" height="200" r6="true" /></a>The book begins in the evening of Saturday 3, 1915, i.e. in the Easter night. Later, on 4/4 as it's past midnight, Captain Patrice Belval, the hero, is led in the dark by a strange rain of sparks through Paris, up to a private hostel in which he cannot enter as the main entrance is guarded, and there's a high wall all around it.
<br />Patrice finds a postern in the wall. It's closed, but incredibly he has got the key with him, the key for this place he didn't know about a while ago...
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<br />There is a Queen, <em>Double double</em> (1950), of which 20 sections or chapters are as <i>And on the Eighth Day...</i> titled with dates, beginning with<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-uFo6G-QZnKWQiGh50dOuTIbwRcy7UGs9_l7GN1QLHj_TonzB9LVK6WiWnBP4vakRWaPKYsIjaayXOs8a2_TeMfTaeYh5aJswtPEbv7eaEXXyQYxP8KuOgZECfUDa56IvLZOU6P2-Z2Y/s1600-h/double.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 8px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262301830075369394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-uFo6G-QZnKWQiGh50dOuTIbwRcy7UGs9_l7GN1QLHj_TonzB9LVK6WiWnBP4vakRWaPKYsIjaayXOs8a2_TeMfTaeYh5aJswtPEbv7eaEXXyQYxP8KuOgZECfUDa56IvLZOU6P2-Z2Y/s200/double.JPG" /></a> April 4, Tuesday (which in 1950 belonged to the Holy Week).
<br />I guess it's not casual, as there are many 4 and letters D in this novel, which is the 4th investigation in Wrightsville. Quaternity shows its nose with the murderer's plan, killing a richman, poor man, a beggarman, a thief, in order to frighten Dr Dodd, a very superstitious man, and to make him write his last wills.
<br />Synchronicity might be there too, as this Dr Dodd has a private room in his attic, and he keeps its key with him all the time, like the Teacher 6 years ago (or rather 14 years later considering the writing of the books).
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<br />Talking of square towers reminds me of <em>The Player on the Other Side</em>, where 4 cousins live in 4 tower-like houses at the four angles of a square, symbolizing a chessboard and the 4 rooks.
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<br />I have previously given several links to my friend Kurt Sercu's marvelous site dedicated to Ellery Queen, here is <a href="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Whodunit_1.html">another entry</a> to the writers' lifes.</div>
<br />blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-44765285255701240942011-04-04T11:11:00.055-08:002011-08-11T07:28:40.903-08:004: quite sensible<div align="justify">In July 2008 I read a novel by Stona Fitch, <em>Senseless</em> (2001), that<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqKWXH43Tq-XX5OgkARgGcGr8pqPe81SxaIr_i1gqsnx-8wRYfbTo9MVO1iPJegaJzmN_b9twrvgsv7kEfhFTjty1hjHlg_0BMh-mVBi6g3-NPrledyiortAPr5a9Ijcnt780Uw4HpWMqT/s1600-h/senseless.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219900415150121570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqKWXH43Tq-XX5OgkARgGcGr8pqPe81SxaIr_i1gqsnx-8wRYfbTo9MVO1iPJegaJzmN_b9twrvgsv7kEfhFTjty1hjHlg_0BMh-mVBi6g3-NPrledyiortAPr5a9Ijcnt780Uw4HpWMqT/s200/senseless.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 5px 0px 2px 5px;" /></a> I found previous month in a secondhand bookshop. It was translated in French in 2002, but I missed it and missed too the paperback edition in 2004, although the title as well as the story should have looked attractive to me.
<br />Eliott Gast, a middle-aged American economist, is abducted in Brussels by a shadowy anti-globalization group. He spends forty days in a white apartment, questioned and tortured by his captors, every moment broadcast on the Internet. The torture consists in chirurgically removing his five senses, one after the other, beginning with Taste, then Smell, Touch, Hearing and Sight.
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<br />A few months ago, in March, I became interested in Percy Kemp, a British author writing in French. His two first<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkaNl9Ig8PJZcQG7H6T6mjv5z2oBev_JitD-DO1yTfMv6buzV6tuGV7CFwIZ3eC9YxNkjkwQpi1b4jqU4UmJu952L0DYj-XciPny3z21wRW556Qp6Bvs_XBQMFOT66l4c3rz4kDBXk7Ptq/s1600/moore.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkaNl9Ig8PJZcQG7H6T6mjv5z2oBev_JitD-DO1yTfMv6buzV6tuGV7CFwIZ3eC9YxNkjkwQpi1b4jqU4UmJu952L0DYj-XciPny3z21wRW556Qp6Bvs_XBQMFOT66l4c3rz4kDBXk7Ptq/s200/moore.JPG" width="128px" /></a> novels were about the loss of a sense, Smell in <i>Musc</i> (2000, 'Musk'), and Touch in <i>Moore le Maure </i>(2001, '<strong>Moore</strong> the Moor').
<br />It echoed to me as Gast is abducted because he is an agent of a shadow agency, ruled by a man named Alec <strong>Moore</strong> (<em>Why don't you take Alec Moore in my stead?</em>, asks Gast). About all what we know about previous Gast's life is that he has a wife, Maura.
<br />Leslie Moore, main character of <em>Moore le Maure</em>, is too a secret agent, and someone who loses Touch, little by little, up to a complete loss as expressed in the last sentence of the novel:
<br /><blockquote>Il était devenu, dans le sens premier du mot, un être <strong>insensé</strong>.</blockquote>I would translate 'He had become, in the first sense of the word, a <strong>senseless</strong> being.', and I suppose any translator would not miss this last joke, quite equivalent in French, used too in Fitch's title, <em>Senseless</em>.
<br />Alec Moore made me think too of a French crime novel, <em>Abel Brigand</em> by Jean-Marie Villemot (2001),<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwnv3qXgJ9nq979bmWlfaRARICZauBJMrjFy1Q7iPtaqz4jWV91tXFwCkU0tfNjuqr-9sxaf7XzOwyXEHjuysmHlbFQuthj_AMGye0SR4UJVOeu3FDX4ookAH0H1CCIjbmliHONydli7s/s1600-h/jhwhdeutsch.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262317629222380770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwnv3qXgJ9nq979bmWlfaRARICZauBJMrjFy1Q7iPtaqz4jWV91tXFwCkU0tfNjuqr-9sxaf7XzOwyXEHjuysmHlbFQuthj_AMGye0SR4UJVOeu3FDX4ookAH0H1CCIjbmliHONydli7s/s200/jhwhdeutsch.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 160px; margin: 5px 0px 2px 8px; width: 100px;" /></a> which interested me much for its quaternity side. Its geometric aspect reminded me of Queen's <em>The Player on the Other Side</em>, where murders are committed at the four corners of a square; in each case a letter is involved, with a double meaning.
<br />Abel Brigand is a Catholic priest investigating the disappearance of Alice. There are two suspects, Alice's uncles Alec Cooper and Alain Vogt, and important clues are given in letters written by Alice to her uncle, in which she fixes dates with him, in four places at the corners of a rectangle on a map.
<br />The initials of the places give ALEC, while in each meeting only one sense is involved, with successive initials in French giving VOGT. At last neither Alec nor Vogt is the culprit, the letters being faked clues.
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<br />So I knew of three novels closely related to the five senses, one with an <strong>ALEC MOORE</strong>, one with an <strong>ALEC</strong>, and one with a <strong>MOORE</strong>, and the original books were published the same year, in October, December, and July 01.
<br />I won't explore how striking is this coincidence as I only mentioned it to explain how I met my third 'Book of the Week'.
<br />So when it puzzled me in July 08 I suddenly thought I had somewhere among my books (several thousands) a collection of short stories about the five senses, and wondered when it was published. I was lucky enough to find it easily, and it was published in November 01!
<br />Its title is just <em><strong>5</strong></em>, and it was the result of a 2001 literary contest <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_s8SaPfaQBjJ0uJKu4RI-ilPXXG-Hp9aG6RSXbtvnYyYbv4tSw07wBpJnHMCd8qWjY720-UdgBGmCKM8_RKl2IwAGEyZ9soLj4ywJ4p3yL6nI3xfr5SQJS8mdVdOY1nZ0HOeySyk7vqAB/s1600-h/5.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219904048008832914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_s8SaPfaQBjJ0uJKu4RI-ilPXXG-Hp9aG6RSXbtvnYyYbv4tSw07wBpJnHMCd8qWjY720-UdgBGmCKM8_RKl2IwAGEyZ9soLj4ywJ4p3yL6nI3xfr5SQJS8mdVdOY1nZ0HOeySyk7vqAB/s200/5.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 5px 0px -2px 5px;" /></a>on 'five senses' theme: everybody could write a short, a jury chose 5 of them, to be published along with 5 shorts by known writers.
<br />I cannot remember how exactly I got this book, it was probably given to me by one friend as I published several books with the same publisher (actually 5, 1 whole novel, and I was involved with shorts and articles in 4 other books, so that's another 4-1 pattern). This allowed me to know it was published in 2000 copies, with many unsold.
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<br />So I took another look at it, and was puzzled by the 4th short, <em>Little green apples </em>by Sébastien Fevry, elected by the jury. It's divided in eight sections, titled from <em>Sunday, April 8</em> to <em>Sunday, April 15</em>, and this was the Holy Week in 2001.
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<br />With this text came the idea of the Book of the Week. Before that I knew of many books in which Easter dates appeared, on purpose or not, but if I thought of this pattern, only two books were involved.
<br />The parallel is absolute with <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em>, in which 8 chapters are titled with the 8 days of the Holy Week 44, while no explicite allusion to Easter is given.
<br />Yet Queen gave many implicite allusions, while Fevry's text<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._001.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._001.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 5px 0px 0px 5px; width: 200px;" /></a> is far from this, except maybe for the killing of the boss, said to be a bit like Henri's father, on Holy Friday, and it seems that Henri will die on Easter Sunday. The appletrees made me think of the Garden of Eden, and of the tree of Knowledge supposed to be an appletree. The Christian tradition sees a parallel between man's creation on Friday and the Crucifixion, Jesus' cross being thought to have been made with the wood of the Tree of Life.
<br />I thought the number of appletrees, 50, was not there by chance, as it's a sacred number for Queen's Quenanites, clearly because Millar Burrows (or another book like <em>The Dead Sea Scrolls</em>) mentions 50 to have been a sacred number for Qumran's Essenians.
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<br />He did not think of Ellery Queen's novel, although he had read it years ago, and had not seen then that its dates followed the 1944 Holy Week.
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<br />There was a striking point in common between my three first Books of the Week. Fevry's short was written after the sense of Smell, and Leroux's title is <em>The <strong><u>Perfume</u></strong> of the Lady in Black</em>. Now the first sentence of <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em>, just after the title of the chapter, <em>Sunday, April 2</em>, is
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<br />Now I see a funny thing considering Queen's and Fevry's, that have <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyY38c8qY1DGaU3wnfzlIjQYD3xQKkchgqHcw6CCDQyyCAJ1MfuJHwdkN5tZEFIsWYbE-HqNzdeKeluMlG2sW0CkcYGE5TAYOykam_WQO0YmfIS0sctNdcrwhra29ng2GKlQ5I8O2nvKSd/s1600/66440.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408090149320332002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyY38c8qY1DGaU3wnfzlIjQYD3xQKkchgqHcw6CCDQyyCAJ1MfuJHwdkN5tZEFIsWYbE-HqNzdeKeluMlG2sW0CkcYGE5TAYOykam_WQO0YmfIS0sctNdcrwhra29ng2GKlQ5I8O2nvKSd/s200/66440.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 160px; margin: 5px 0px 2px 6px; width: 160px;" /></a>so much in common. The concerned Easter years are 1944 and 2001, adding up to 3945, a number strongly echoing to WWII (39-45). As a direct consequence of my discovery of the exact pattern 4-1 in Jung's life, around 4/4/44, I found another exact pattern 4-1 in WWII duration, around 6/6/44, D-Day.
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<br />Another coincidence is quite personal. I happen to participate to literary contests, I did it 4 times up to now, and had 2 shorts published this way.
<br />The first one was in 2001, in a contest where it was asked to write new adventures of Arsène Lupin.
<br />I chose to write an unwritten adventure alluded to in <em>The Sign of the Shadow</em> (a short that is online <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?pageno=40&fk_files=1834857">here</a>), where Lupin is said to have struggled against a Red Sultan in Armenia. As Leblanc's short is about a treasury which can only be discovered on an April 15, I imagined in my story another treasury which could only be found on a 4/15, but in the Islamic calendar. It can be read <a href="http://remi.schulz.perso.neuf.fr/divers/depic/sultan.htm">there</a>, in French.
<br />Then in the beginning of 2001 Fevry and I participated to writing contests, and we both wrote a story in which the important date was 4/15...
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<br />Actually 15th of April is an interesting date, as in the lunar Hebraic calendar Pessah always falls on 15th of Nissan, on the full moon.
<br />As I told in my first approach, 1944 was a very special year, the first one in the Gregorian calendar repeating the exact conditions of 30, supposed to be the original Crucifixion year.
<br />2001 is too a special year, not so unique as this happens about one time against ten: Jewish Pessah lasts eight days, as Christian Holy Week, and in 2001 these eight days were from April 8 to 15, in a perfect match with Christian Holy Week. </div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-52008305397164995622011-04-04T11:11:00.054-08:002011-08-11T07:28:17.829-08:005: CH & BA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWouTylpD6VQ9q2Bj0AfWdJj7q9Q9TkPslh26OSmh90CcCjxhzRFjS9_1UjHDtKr9k4jCU7LT71FvLip0DVXVRJBr9MgWMwBqAqxMJjjW2Gxwy8nfJXMXqCxYk3F1KVcszY395b6MnKXh/s1600-h/FOURcorners.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256196358575612578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMWouTylpD6VQ9q2Bj0AfWdJj7q9Q9TkPslh26OSmh90CcCjxhzRFjS9_1UjHDtKr9k4jCU7LT71FvLip0DVXVRJBr9MgWMwBqAqxMJjjW2Gxwy8nfJXMXqCxYk3F1KVcszY395b6MnKXh/s200/FOURcorners.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: -25px 0px 0px 8px;" /></a>
<br /><div align="justify">On Sep 8, 2008 I woke up with the strange idea that there was an exact pattern 4-1 in Jung's life around 4/4/44, then I could check it was true.
<br />In the following days and weeks I discovered other patterns 4-1, some concerning French works, some not. On Sep 30 I was in Marseilles, where I found in a second-hand bookshop <em>Les quatre coins de la nuit</em>, by Craig Holden (2000, French translation of <em>Four corners of night</em>, 1999).
<br />I read it on next days, and found it began on March 31, 1996, which is precised to be Palm Sunday (and I checked it was).
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<br />Still looking like a contingent circumstance, it takes Bank just one week to find where is the girl, and in the night from Apr 6 to 7 Bank and Mack have to fight against a gang of dealers to free her. During this night of the Resurrection, Bank sacrifies his life to save Tamara and Mack.
<br />After his death, there are just a few concluding paragraphs:
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<br />We learn through the book that Bank had a terrible fault to repair, and his sacrifice during this sacred night looks like a redemption.
<br />This novel is very subtle, but I read another Craig Holden's some years earlier, <em>The Last Sanctuary</em> (1996), which was quite clearer. It begins in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Salem,_North_Dakota">New Salem</a>, N. Dakota, where we meet the hero, Joseph Curtis, who's got stigmatas from the first War in the Gulf, at times his feet bleed... He has to deal with a sect run by Father Amon. In the end the Father dies, and so seems to do Joe Curtis, but he comes back to life and takes the place of the Father to lead the sect.
<br />Well it's a JC like Jesus Christ, and Curtis is much alike Christ or Cristus...
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<br />After <em>Four corners</em> I read three other Holden's, and found all his novels conceal a deep Catholic moral, as well as numerologic patterns in their structure, so <em>The Last Sanctuary</em> has 3 parts with 14 chapters in each one, <em><a href="http://www.craigholden.com/jazz.html">The Jazz Bird</a></em> 5 parts with 8 chapters in each one..
<br /><em>Four Corners of Night</em> is in 4 parts, with 38 chapters in all. I thought the author's initials, C-H, had ranks 3-8 in the alphabet.
<br />It's useful now to know one of my main obsessions is numeric patterns in JS Bach's works. I've more than 20 pages in French on my site about it, and at least <a href="http://remi.schulz.perso.neuf.fr/bach/sixteen.htm">one</a> in English. One of this page is dedicated to the signature 21-38, seen as letters BA-CH. For example Bach's opus 1 is the <em>Clavier Partitas</em>, beginning with BWV 825, <em>Partita in B</em> (like Bach, in the German system where B is B flat in English system), in which the 2 first pieces are a Prelude and an Allemande counting 21 and 38 bars.
<br />As I do not like the Menuet II in this partita, I wrote another one with in each part 21 notes for left hand and 38 for right one, and recorded it with a very cheap camera for YouTube:
<br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BDokHVPhyXk?rel=0&hd=1" title="YouTube video player" width="360"></iframe></div>Well I never learnt to play piano... This was just to explain how, after having found a book in 38 chapters by a CH, I wondered if I could find one in 21 chapters by a BA.
<br />On Oct 10, 2008, I went to a public library and looked among the authors names in A the ones that had a forname in B. I'll forget here a few dead ends to come directly to Boris Akunin. Of course I knew his name, but I never felt like opening one of his books, as I don't like historical novels.
<br />Yet there was some 8 Akunin's books on a shelf, and a good chance to find 21 chapters in one of them, so I looked at each book, beginning by the end to find last chapter's number.
<br />No ending chapter 21, but last one of <em>Special Assignments</em> was:
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<br />I hardly believed it as when I found the 1996 Holy Week ruling <em>Four Corners of Night</em> I immediately thought a fifth Book of the Week would complete the prominent pattern 4-1 I met in Jung's life around 4/4/44, a Holy Week Tuesday. Yet I had only found 4 such books in 12 years, and the odds seemed against me to find another one soon, so on Oct 9 I put the question on a literary forum I belong to, mentioning the four books I already knew.
<br />This had no result, but on next day 10/10 I found by myself Akunin's, because of <em>Four Corners of Night</em>, 10 days after I found it in Marseilles. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEged5K_rFjuS2r3ZaqMa1fIRZrqs1DiI_mJ2JILqjFtD1GPxq0ONyiqgoNMe5FXCYmI87srbPohGu9BLrZbqO9B_7BtL5hbxwNVAbkNST65StrZ4lURqFFP9AlHiO_HToVZjQFXfR8mNaqr/s1600/specialB.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEged5K_rFjuS2r3ZaqMa1fIRZrqs1DiI_mJ2JILqjFtD1GPxq0ONyiqgoNMe5FXCYmI87srbPohGu9BLrZbqO9B_7BtL5hbxwNVAbkNST65StrZ4lURqFFP9AlHiO_HToVZjQFXfR8mNaqr/s200/specialB.JPG" width="131" /></a></div>An amazing coincidence is that this frontcover of an English edition (<a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=jhuGPwAACAAJ&dq=Special%20Assignments&source=gbs_book_other_versions">2007</a>) shows a Moscow <u><strong>night</strong></u>scape with card symbols at the <u><strong>four corners</strong></u>. Actually the original Russian edition was published in 1999, as <em>Four Corners of Night</em>.
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<br />I was puzzled too to see this story beginning on a Tuesday 4/4, as the switch between Jung and Haemmerli happened on (Holy) Tuesday 4/4/44, but in this Russian book the dates are given in the Julian calendar, where Gregorian Holy Week from 4/14 to 4/21 becomes 4/2 to 4/9 (I checked the Holy Week was this year the same in Gregorian and Julian calendars).
<br />I happened to know that Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, the eve of Easter, as I suspect this fact led Dannay to write his 63-64 novels, <em>The Player on the Other Side</em>, in which a godlike killer was born on April 20, 1924, and <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em>, in which an Essenian community worships Mein Kampf.
<br />The Hitler trail might be considered too here, as <em>The Decorator</em> is about Jack the Ripper, committing another sequence of crimes in Moscow, and this irresponsible fool is killed in cold blood by Akunin's hero during Easter night, a few hours after Hitler's birth.
<br />There is a common question: 'What would you do if you met Hitler when he was an innocent boy, knowing what he would do later?' Killing an innocent boy might avoid millions of dead... This is a classic Sci-Fi theme, and Akunin might have stretched it to an extreme, killing a newborn baby.
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<br />The clues to this might be quite subtle, and I will rather tell of another Akunin's, <em>Leviathan</em> (1998), in which most important events happen during the 1878 Holy Week, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHc4397ecq1B7PEY5VXhUBhzDH7rLq_LcCgfbJtlEvhMci6bWz2K_BOEMmp0ikHNGdsutHjRHGH_4tAWLgRXAsrkf8em66cB-TfCKbAWpxZA2Pxl1nYFrX1nz00F9RxPsfRi-oV71ZAbN/s1600-h/leviathan.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256625525484277778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHc4397ecq1B7PEY5VXhUBhzDH7rLq_LcCgfbJtlEvhMci6bWz2K_BOEMmp0ikHNGdsutHjRHGH_4tAWLgRXAsrkf8em66cB-TfCKbAWpxZA2Pxl1nYFrX1nz00F9RxPsfRi-oV71ZAbN/s200/leviathan.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 5px 5px 0px 0px;" /></a>strangely from Palm Sunday to Good Friday, with two missing days as in <em>The Decorator</em>, but not the same ones.
<br />As the adventure is aboard an ocean liner, the dates are given in the Gregorian calendar, and again strangely the Holy Week period was the same in 1878 and 1889, year of <em>The Decorator</em>. The story doesn't give any allusion to these special days.
<br />Anyhow this cannot be a Book of the Week, as there are many days and chapters of suspicions before the main events.
<br />So on April 14 (Palm Sunday) there is a murder on board.
<br />On April 16 it's the turn of the captain, Joshua Cliff. Note the initials of this only master after God, JC, and Joshua is Hebrew name Jesus.
<br />On April 19 (Good Friday) the owner of a treasure secret changes brutally two times:
<br />- The Chief Officer Charles Reynier is killed by French inspector Gustave Gauche;
<br />- Gustave Gauche is killed by a young woman, Marie Sanfon;
<br />- Then Marie is badly hurt, yet she survives and Erast Fandorin predicts this twice criminal will easily fool the jury; he will not leave that opportunity to Jack the Ripper 11 years later.
<br />I notice the synchronistic fornames of the two victims, Charles Gustave, as Carl Gustav, and the surviving lady is young, Jung...
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<br />This leads me to a last exploration in Queen's work. As told before Dannay felt in 1963 free to publish the mystical plots he couldn't write with his cousin Lee. He first wrote <em>The Player on the Other Side</em>, and <em>And on the Eighth Day...</em>, with in both of them the Passion concerned, then from 65 to 71 were published four seemingly more traditional crimebooks, with 'crime of passion' as main theme...
<br />Kurt Sercu and Dale Andrews translated a bit of my comments on these<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKH2gqotSq3UrG3ghFBg61PXcYqDvb5GveTtnlErW8P7nDHsHD-q2nTu9fSXyl8z6qjHAynKImP9ggO_11936gNzt9nap5CPxQhrIIIo8Ec2fzqg9WpJld_EIKvWmrNU3pERzI7R5mpeFe/s1600-h/tragedy.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262324556187875810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKH2gqotSq3UrG3ghFBg61PXcYqDvb5GveTtnlErW8P7nDHsHD-q2nTu9fSXyl8z6qjHAynKImP9ggO_11936gNzt9nap5CPxQhrIIIo8Ec2fzqg9WpJld_EIKvWmrNU3pERzI7R5mpeFe/s200/tragedy.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 5px 0px 2px 8px; width: 136px;" /></a> 4 books <a href="http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/The_Other_Side_Schulz_3.html">here</a>, but now comes something new about a last plot Dannay had written and did not publish. Lee died on Apr 3, 1971, and Dannay didn't want to break the legend that Lee and himself were the only 'Ellery Queen'.
<br />Yet the full synopsis written by Dannay was published in 1999 (same year as <em>Four Corners</em> and <em>The Decorator</em>). Dannay imagined five acts for this <em>Tragedy of Errors</em>, and each act ends with a new truth, a new culprit for the murder of actress Morna Richmond on Apr 23, 1967.
<br />In ACT FOUR Ellery gives a long and perfect reasonment to conclude that the only possible culprit should be <b>Theodore</b> Curtis, Morna's lawyer.
<br />That was another error, and ACT FIVE shows the real culprit is Dr Rago, Morna's <b>psy</b>.
<br />I recall that the switch of 4/4/44 is between Dr <b>Theodor</b> Haemmerli and famous <b>psy</b> Carl Jung. In a certain way Theodor sacrified his life to save the old psy (68 years) and give him another 17 years to live.
<br />68-17 is a pattern 4-1, and we have too a pattern 4-1 between the 4 published books and the unpublished one, as well as in the five acts, 4 errors and 1 truth.
<br />Still only from a synchronistic point of view of course, it's fascinating to have acts 4 & 5 of this tragedy deciding between a <strong>Theodore</strong> and a <strong>psy</strong>. After seeing Joe Curtis and Joshua Cliff in Holden's and Akunin's, one could wonder in front of Theodore Curtis. It has to be thought that Greek <em>Theodoros</em> means 'gift of God', which is too the meaning of Hebrew names Nathan and Nathaniel. In <em>The Player on the Other Side</em>, the murderer identifies himself with a Nathaniel, born on April 20, 1924, Easter Sunday. Dannay's birth name was Daniel Nathan, and that was Theodore Sturgeon, the famous Sci-Fi author, who transformed the complete script written by Dannay into a novel.
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<br />B.Akunin made me curious of Easter dates in the Julian calendar, and the Russian Holy Weak 1967 was from April 10 to 17, in Gregorian calendar from April 23 to 30.
<br />So Morna Richmond was killed on Russian Palm Sunday. This might look meaningless, until thinking Russian Easter was on April 30, 22th anniversary of the suicide of Adolf Hitler, in Berlin invaded by the Russian troops.</div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-55101274633915989942010-04-04T11:11:00.126-08:002011-11-06T23:24:29.291-09:001: 4/4/44<div align="justify">On September 8, 2008, I woke up very early with a recollection of a novel I read 25 years ago, <em>The world is made of glass</em> by Morris West, in which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung">Carl Gustav Jung</a> (1875-1961) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-shp3D9bxrbUqWfhc3R1FhtT3MyRWakE0oiWNKoMiBr7nOUzIogQpKu9feV_ylUDGnfHwqZtEf9DoWaNMTcle2SEDdNw9pwNpuCHb_gemil00-DBdGrLZ8mDtEy2ZCxl7JO4ilhDDAQok/s1600/MDR.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 132px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468889510670323426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-shp3D9bxrbUqWfhc3R1FhtT3MyRWakE0oiWNKoMiBr7nOUzIogQpKu9feV_ylUDGnfHwqZtEf9DoWaNMTcle2SEDdNw9pwNpuCHb_gemil00-DBdGrLZ8mDtEy2ZCxl7JO4ilhDDAQok/s200/MDR.JPG" /></a>is the main character. In the French translation (I'm French), he was given a wrong birthday, actually same as mine, July 6.<br />I'll come back to this book in post 3, where I'll study too the novels I was reading the previous days. Jung was too a character in one of them, and something reminded me of the very schematic date 4/4/44 Jung mentioned in his kind of autobiography, <em>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</em> (MDR).<br />It was still dark on this Sep 8. My mind wandered about the mistake in West's novel, wondering how it could reappear after so many years, while it would have been useful for me to remember it in previous occasions. I tried to go back to sleep, but a strange idea invaded my mind, until it kept me wide awake: the date 4/4/44 should be at four fifths of Jung's life, exactly at the 4/5ths, drawing a 4-1 pattern in the life of a man whose essential concept was <strong><a href="http://www.jungny.com/lexicon.175/carl.jung.162.html">quaternity</a></strong>, the Unity of the Four.<br />I happen to have such ideas on my mind when I wake up, most of the times it's just nuts, but sometimes it's a real step forward in my research. As what I could remember of Jung's dates - birth in July 1875, death in 1961 - could fit with the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_t3SevABcjCabC4i-LNyWhZZiL-OPRkmYA6cZWspr3s2xn0rzLOymFnlFp5vpcvWFcharavww_fFq7pOSdeibiR4z9lZD5pVfKNwMhBBf5yV0kDmhRhZCtswCqa1fglgEKdmq7sujqmL_/s1600/CGJ1875-1961.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 245px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 162px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468589913421461954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_t3SevABcjCabC4i-LNyWhZZiL-OPRkmYA6cZWspr3s2xn0rzLOymFnlFp5vpcvWFcharavww_fFq7pOSdeibiR4z9lZD5pVfKNwMhBBf5yV0kDmhRhZCtswCqa1fglgEKdmq7sujqmL_/s320/CGJ1875-1961.JPG" /></a>pattern, I raised up and went to my computer to get Jung's exact dates (here on the wall of his birthhouse in Kesswil), then I did a first calculation.<br />It seemed to work!!!! Yet the exact day depended on more precision. I'll explain further on how I came to choose time 20:00 for the birth and time 16:00 for the death, local time, which are anyhow exact within 30'. This gives a total duration of 31360 days and 20 hours, of which 4/5ths are 25088 days and 16 hours.<br />From Jung's birth it leads to 4/4/44, noon.<br /><br />I'll explain too how to check easily these calculations, but what happened on 4/4/44?<br />Quite a strange thing according to Jung's report in MDR, even stranger according to his disciples. Jung was a very healthy man, but he suffered a severe heart attack in Feb 44. He was several weeks between life and death, and probably owed his survival to Swiss greatest heart specialist, Theodor Haemmerli (called Dr H. in MDR).<br />Jung had visions during his illness, and an experience in which we recognize now a NDE. The testimony he gives in MDR might be the first NDE case fully published.<br />Jung flew away high up in space, seeing far below the earth, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnAiZIXLY8xT8tSkW9plniHqf60Ijlfvs6haBoNXXP7IMouWbyiyjFV5wlUpcJNW6UrEYfdrvrUtbxgmMJMpnr75h18RkWe1NygIZ-liRQsyED6tblcrTvuySl0_4JSNA68QX7LodRqSY/s1600/nde.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 161px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469145212954191730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnAiZIXLY8xT8tSkW9plniHqf60Ijlfvs6haBoNXXP7IMouWbyiyjFV5wlUpcJNW6UrEYfdrvrUtbxgmMJMpnr75h18RkWe1NygIZ-liRQsyED6tblcrTvuySl0_4JSNA68QX7LodRqSY/s200/nde.JPG" /></a>bathed in a gloriously blue light. Then he saw a tremendous dark block of stone, floating in space, ant it was a temple, and he knew he would receive there all the answers to all his questions, but before he could enter the temple he met Dr H., delegated from the earth to tell him there was a protest against his going away. He had to return.<br />The moment Jung heard that, the vision ceased, and he was profoundly disappointed.<br />I have shortened the report. Jung couldn't know in 44 a basic NDE case, where the subject meets on the other side dead members of his family who tell him the time is not yet come, but he was surprised to have met Dr H., a living person, in the other world: <blockquote>I felt violent resistance to my doctor because he had brought me back to life. At the same time, I was worried about him. "His life is in danger, for heaven's sake! He has appeared to me in his primal form! When anybody attains this form it means he is going to die, for already he belongs to the 'greater company'!"<br />Suddenly the terrifying thought came to me that Dr H. would have to die in my stead.</blockquote>He tried to warn him, but the doctor didn't care, taking Jung's visions as pure delirium. Maybe Dr H. was wrong, as <blockquote>I was his last patient. On 4 April 1944 - I still remember the exact date - I was allowed to sit up on the edge of my bed for the first time since the beginning of my illness, and on this same day Dr H. took to his bed and did not leave it again. Soon afterward he died of septicemia.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 280pt">(MDR, <em>Visions)</em></span></blockquote><br />There is a graphic biography, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/1874166056/ref=sib_rdr_fc?ie=UTF8&p=S001&j=0#reader-page">Introducing Jung</a></em>, where Maggie Hyde <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnc1KAFhW85PY74mFdsywX5ymh_DcdvrGznoKnt7kDlnQA3O1aTAZaX3Kuj_28o9VdafBKYrWRjfEKQ2ZZ7dRtGyc961u0xtdZmj1xYcoeknQhyphenhyphen6ZqMcbW-lDp7CHZ4mz_1tU-atYTf-m/s1600/4-4-44.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 198px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468911063950451842" border="0" alt="Jung para principiantes (2004)ISBN 9789879065044" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnc1KAFhW85PY74mFdsywX5ymh_DcdvrGznoKnt7kDlnQA3O1aTAZaX3Kuj_28o9VdafBKYrWRjfEKQ2ZZ7dRtGyc961u0xtdZmj1xYcoeknQhyphenhyphen6ZqMcbW-lDp7CHZ4mz_1tU-atYTf-m/s320/4-4-44.JPG" /></a>and Michael McGuinness did not forget the episode, emphasizing upon the date, the only precise date Jung gives in his report.<br />Other sources, notably Barbara Hannah's biography, add striking information. There was clearly a 'Jung before 44', and a 'Jung after 44'. He said his illness meant he had a wrong attitude dealing with archetypes as intellectual concepts, while they where "living gods".<br />With reference to Dr H.'s death, <a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=uJswHBmOORUC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118#v=onepage&q&f=false">Jung</a> commented "that Zeus himself was said to have killed Aesculapius by a thunderbolt because he had brought back patients from death."<br />The bios I read don't seem to have enquired tightly upon the case, as they all say Dr H. died a few days after 4/4/44. I found <a href="http://www.matrikel.uzh.ch/pages/575.htm#15831">here</a> he died on June 30, aged 60. That sure is not "a few days", while not contradictory with Jung's "soon afterward" (<em>bald daraus</em>).<br />Anyhow it could be more striking than "a few days after", as June 30 is about the day Jung left the hospital to his home, "in the last days of June" (Bair), "in the beginning of July" (Hannah). It would be amazing to compare the two men's health bulletins, maybe in two narrow rooms of the hospital, from 4/4/44 to 6/30/44:<br /><strong>↗</strong> Jung begins his recovery, gets better and better, until his release.<br /><strong>↘</strong> Dr H. begins his illness, gets worse and worse, until his death.<br /><br />One might think Jung embellished the story, and that maybe Dr Haemmerli's disease started later than 4/4/44. It has to be thought this was first discussed soon after the facts among Jung's disciples, and it happened in the confined Zürich area where all the people in the medicine field knew each other. Haemmerli was a big shot, as well as his <a href="http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F9327.php">wife</a>. Later, but before writing MDR, Jung wrote about exactly the same story to Haemmerli's brother, Armin, in Oct 1955, ending with: <blockquote>On Apr 4, 1944 I was for the first time allowed to sit up on the edge of my bed, and on this same day your brother took to his bed and did not leave it again.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 140pt"><em>CG Jung Letters</em>, Volume 2: 1951-1961 </span></blockquote>It's hard to imagine Jung writing cracks <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5bqkcVuKlnlQdjhuou1DMvOylLGhzAY8xtt41p-Qp2MTEg9yBtVEHaFp58JOzl3FeZ5ISjRa7teL3gM1EUGepMOhyphenhyphenXTV0bN7EOwhGBycT1_-POal4Ew-wL4_zJ_2J3JKINPj4CTvDbyl/s1600-h/44mandala.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 3px 0px 0px 7px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279618904288001378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5bqkcVuKlnlQdjhuou1DMvOylLGhzAY8xtt41p-Qp2MTEg9yBtVEHaFp58JOzl3FeZ5ISjRa7teL3gM1EUGepMOhyphenhyphenXTV0bN7EOwhGBycT1_-POal4Ew-wL4_zJ_2J3JKINPj4CTvDbyl/s200/44mandala.jpg" /></a>to Haemmerli's brother, but beyond the accuracy of Jung's tellings, it's a doubtless fact he pointed on 4/4/44 long before his death. Reasonably he didn't foresee the exact day of his death, which would complete an exact 4-1 pattern around 4/4/44.<br /><br />I'll give in next post more information about Quaternity concept. Now I wish to explore a bit deeper the question of my half-awake intuition on the 4-1 pattern around 4/4/44, which might look very weird, and it did look weird to me in the days and weeks and months following my finding, so weird that I won't have expected people to believe me, if the evidence of the result were not there to invite to pay attention to how it was obtained.<br />Now I think it is not so weird. I first have to say I always had a great easiness with numbers, and with logic games. To elaborate just a bit, when I'm in front of a calculation when most people would need paper and pen, often the result flows naturally from my unconscious. This <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3OJGRvnRmDmr-K3rlV8Zshzp_b-yWfSEBRH59pLazSDzn1Tf4MGxeH2AtCjW1hyphenhyphenmuq90jkj4sjXyd-suzXFxc8-4sCYmJQ5Oy3c9Dy2S6ZYEibWVHyP8dEAsclfDnUNlmBO4c9LrR9JM/s1600/sync.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 124px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469313101628704866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3OJGRvnRmDmr-K3rlV8Zshzp_b-yWfSEBRH59pLazSDzn1Tf4MGxeH2AtCjW1hyphenhyphenmuq90jkj4sjXyd-suzXFxc8-4sCYmJQ5Oy3c9Dy2S6ZYEibWVHyP8dEAsclfDnUNlmBO4c9LrR9JM/s200/sync.JPG" /></a>was very useful when I started a personal research involving numbers, but probably I did it because of that gift. Several times my research led me to calculate durations in days between two dates. If I don't remember any striking intuition, I'm trained to such a calculation and its little tricks.<br />Since my youth too I've been dealing with strange coincidences. That made me read Jung when I learnt he had a theory about meaningful coincidences, or synchronicities. Reading Jung made me discover his quaternity concept, which I immediately shared.<br />I read much Jung around 1982-1990, and books about Jung too. I'm not sure I first read carefully MDR which has an horrible title in French - <em>Ma vie </em>(<em>My life</em>) - so maybe I missed in this big book the important date April 4, 1944.<br />I read in its time (1985 for the French translation) <em><a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=eH-Eau0cGkgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22colin+wilson%22+jung&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false">C. G. Jung: Lord of the underworld</a></em>, by Colin Wilson, in which first sentences are: <blockquote>Jung was <strong>sixty-eight</strong> years old when, taking his daily walk, he slipped on an icy road and broke his ankle. A few days later he suffered a severe heart attack.</blockquote>Wilson relates the story, and ends with <blockquote>Jung was to live on for another <strong>seventeen</strong> years.</blockquote>If I can't say I remember my feelings when reading this, my friendness with numbers was already such that it's very likely I noticed these numbers 68-17. I don't need any calculation to know 68 is 4 times 17, and to recognize a 4-1 pattern, which was already prominent to me, and that I already associated with Jung.<br />Wilson gives the quotation by Jung with the date April 4, 1944, but I have absolutely no remembrance I saw its schematism, while I almost remember myself noticing the 68-17 pattern. Anyhow I had in my head everything needed to find Jung's life pattern, as I deeply believe everything we see is kept somewhere <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXg6tzg5e9CuhzPBSgUsubrX99UnfrEIVe7uYXijbmyDw2Hwg3U_4NJPa2HFTmcyYStKT7sG28efCqa4d6JIMrzLaDkRo6rr7TmqPIOmlLJGI0g1qMvp28VUQe-vs23PsxGeZ3dPqQkkdk/s1600/MWWorld.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 128px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256174111715762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXg6tzg5e9CuhzPBSgUsubrX99UnfrEIVe7uYXijbmyDw2Hwg3U_4NJPa2HFTmcyYStKT7sG28efCqa4d6JIMrzLaDkRo6rr7TmqPIOmlLJGI0g1qMvp28VUQe-vs23PsxGeZ3dPqQkkdk/s200/MWWorld.JPG" /></a>in our brain, and I know by experience my unconscious can do sophisticated calculations. The recollection of the mistake in West's novel might have been a part of this process, as it stroke me then to learn Jung was born on a July, 6. I felt proud to share my birthday with someone I most admired, until I checked it was wrong.<br />As I'm keeping e-mail archives since 2000, I easily found in which occasion I first shared with some friends something about 4/4/44. It was while reading a French book by Paul Misraki, <em>Les raisons de l'irrationnel</em>, where there was a chapter about NDEs. He reported too Jung's case, with the quotation about "le 4 avril 1944", and this time I saw the schematism of the date, 4/4/44.<br /><br />I cannot be sure I never realized that before, but it stroke me much on that day, for that day was 4/4/4 (April 4, 2004).<br /><br />When later I did a <a href="http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&lr=lang_en&rlz=1T4TSEA_frFR344FR344&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en&q=%224%2F4%2F44%22&btnG=Rechercher&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=">Google search</a> about "4/4/44", I found the first results concerned <em>4-4-44</em>, a song by Youssou N'Dour composed for 4/4/4, which was 44th anniversary of Senegal's Independence on 4/4/60.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 37pt"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qwl0SDZGfHI&hl=fr_FR&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qwl0SDZGfHI&hl=fr_FR&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /><br />Doing this Google search in English <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQSxHajF2uxg2NBwfR0VzA5XORq8HcPT5Pjw9cJJJNeXggmcLTQBzk7rhxhVZJuiR6lfUHgccdQOqqDnvnn_3CAjqkUqXoiGCTJtEVczqC4Q0S4-LvTCzXFtR7TpgscJpmjXZPW9sHoWj/s1600/4four.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 117px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 101px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469288069925417570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFQSxHajF2uxg2NBwfR0VzA5XORq8HcPT5Pjw9cJJJNeXggmcLTQBzk7rhxhVZJuiR6lfUHgccdQOqqDnvnn_3CAjqkUqXoiGCTJtEVczqC4Q0S4-LvTCzXFtR7TpgscJpmjXZPW9sHoWj/s200/4four.JPG" /></a>to write this post, I found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_fours">Four fours</a> is a mathematical puzzle, the goal of which is to find the simplest mathematical expression for every whole number from 0 to some maximum, using only four common mathematical symbols and four digits four.<br /><br />Now the boring details about dates, numbers, and how to check all of it.<br />I found several hours for Jung's birth, between 19:30 and 19:45, on astrology sites. Birth certificate gives no hour, and the only <a href="http://members.tripod.com/tra_nations/tra_events.html">clue</a> was given by Jung himself: <blockquote>He told a member of the association that he was born when the last rays of the setting sun lit the room.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 33pt"><em>Carl Gustav Jung: Leben, Werk, Wirkung</em>, by Gerhard Wehr</span></blockquote>I chose 20:00 to have a round hour, and round results then. Anyway any hour on 7/26/1875 would fit with the 4/5th of Jung's life falling on 4/4/44 (if he had been born at 0:00, then the 4/5ths would be on 4/4/44, 8:00).<br />Jung's death certificate gives 16:00, a round hour which suited me. Ruth Bailey, who was living with him in Küsnacht, declared he died at 15:45.<br /><br />I had to do a calculation a bit intricated to find Jung lived 31360 days and 20 hours, or five times 6272 days, 4 hours.<br />The same result can be obtained easily with online tools like <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html">this one</a>, calculating durations between two dates. As it's a dynamic page, if you're too lazy to enter the datas, just check by clicking <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=26&m1=7&y1=1875&h1=20&i1=&s1=&d2=4&m2=4&y2=1944&h2=12&i2=&s2=">here</a>, and you should obtain this:<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">From <strong>Monday July 26, 1875, 20:00:00</strong></span><br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">To <strong>Tuesday April 4, 1944, 12:00:00</strong></span><br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">The duration is 25 088 days, 16 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds</span><br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">Or 68 years, 8 months, 8 days, 16 hours</span><br /><br />Now here's <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=4&m1=4&y1=1944&h1=12&i1=0&s1=0&d2=6&m2=6&y2=1961&h2=16&i2=0&s2=0">the link</a> to the other calculation from 4/4/44 to 6/6/61<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">From <strong>Tuesday April 4, 1944, 12:00:00</strong></span><br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">To <strong>Tuesday June 6, 1966, 16:00:00</strong></span><br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">The duration is 6272 days, 4 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds</span><br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 25pt">Or 17 years, 2 months, 2 days, 4 hours</span> </div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-56225036709563914022010-04-04T11:11:00.125-08:002011-11-06T23:24:16.577-09:002: The Tower<div align="justify">Quaternity is a term Jung used first in reference to trinity. In his first approaches he insisted heavily on the idea that each revealed trinity should be completed by a concealed element to form a quaternity.<br />He found too the number four was essential in the mandala: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzeSq1z_26BXIp2ZUCYv3Fs-c4x-TvcHl9h_Y9zWuQoF9mStvtUndvTUgpt-_c9S2Cs-sGxoDH45jLhSNkIm9lvS6d9g9Ps7uK_lt0Scj7fd8GbPVxQAJs45feHggSVBbWaWRofoIUyBuj/s1600/rb105.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 292px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 282px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557992602218039570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0PKaaOtS-F0BqrVpl-SdbUUNNIEpBmHSg5IeMDruGju57mwpUugmnVjWnU90D7sND38gnDQNbKKh6RT_3qNrMapbMwCT-ZhkNdAHEmlUbF6X8vmTpy_LS1_LRDl27pirkWlS2Klhn_Nk/s320/rb105.JPG" /></a> <blockquote>I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.<br /><br />(MDR, <em>Confrontation with the Unconscious</em>)</blockquote><br />He identified <strong>four</strong> in the 3-4 pattern with <strong>four</strong> in mandalas, although a mandala offers most often a perfect symmetry. Some mandalas Jung painted in the <em>Red Book</em> show a little dissimetry, like the one above, but most of them are pure "circumambulations of the center", as this <em>Window on Eternity</em> below which he painted in 1927.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRB8f45p-1Yrqs1U1Fh83BLzQgrhLiBm9qZqYpFrk37ohIZXz4x0oA9TJUgyoG7-1ccX-q7pZ_CDQ1WocMmPcAaNbBRHwVp97rWYQpequnQ5W8Fh8y-19MlBtqfXtj7G-6vqA_18KT2YDg/s1600-h/fleurdor+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 8px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 149px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459310956410188450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4IyibE4uID3LR7z55QauZjG9FofPSFz5nSWBpeWMM_7QwMLJKYGsWWr2dT5ZS13rgq8qRfnhWv10pBVOmF4KtfMiWsJnYyKBs33ERyn-WHqjUWFt8tde_vEXIZI0pumUVIyt2kRF6PKO2/s200/rb175.JPG" /></a><br />Jung was in conflict about that with his friend Wolfgang Pauli, for whom the ultimate symbol of the psyche had to be symmetrical. Remo Roth explores this <a href="http://www.psychovision.ch/rfr/contrib_SYNC.htm">here</a>.<br />Maybe Jung finally changed a bit his mind as, in <em>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</em> which was achieved just before his death, he uses the word 'quaternity' (<em>Quaternität</em>) only one time, alluding to the mandala, without any link to the trinity. In this book doesn't appear the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_Maria">axiom of Maria Prophetissa</a>" which runs like a leitmotiv in his previous works, as a proof of the 3+1 pattern.<br />I can be straight on that as I have e-texts of <em>MDR</em> in English and German, allowing word searches.<br />Jung uses the word quaternity in a comment of a dream he had after his illness in 1944. He dreamt he arrived to a chapel, and he went in: <blockquote>To my surprise there was no image of the Virgin on the altar, and no crucifix either, but only a wonderful flower arrangement.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbzAj7KZfHEN2hdkEIq5NVywuvUFUZiKf1dcdLgRtMTlf-9jjn-5RoLAhF1vqNTa7D3TYHA3iI5ncndVFS5xRWyK_YC8hCCNCokEWCKhiflZmnTQutlhyphenhyphenwlwlXNgBIk1LYNr-EtAWThuM/s1600/yogi.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 131px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471755135754066722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbzAj7KZfHEN2hdkEIq5NVywuvUFUZiKf1dcdLgRtMTlf-9jjn-5RoLAhF1vqNTa7D3TYHA3iI5ncndVFS5xRWyK_YC8hCCNCokEWCKhiflZmnTQutlhyphenhyphenwlwlXNgBIk1LYNr-EtAWThuM/s200/yogi.JPG" /></a> But then I saw that on the floor in front of the altar, facing me, sat a yogi in lotus posture, in deep meditation. When I looked at him more closely, I realized that he had my face. I started in profound fright, and awoke with the thought: "Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." I knew that when he awakened, I would no longer be.</blockquote>Maybe it's useful to recall that Jung saw Virgin Mary as the 4th element to complete Christian Trinity.<br />Jung goes on with deep insights about this dream, and here comes 'quaternity': <blockquote>As a rule, we see this causal relationship in reverse: in the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and <strong>quaternity</strong> figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 210pt">(MDR, <em>On Life after Death</em>)</span> </blockquote>I put in bold "<strong>quaternity</strong>" as the English translaters Richard and Clara Winston put there the word 'quaternary', but Jung used <strong><em>Quaternitätsfiguren</em></strong>.<br />In reverse, there is only one time 'quaternity' in English <em>MDR</em>, and it's in a passage where Jung used the word <em><strong>Vierheit</strong></em>, but it needs a deep study as there might be the most striking example of quaternity-quintessence in Jung's life.<br /><br />A whole chapter (among 13) of <em>MDR</em> is devoted to <em>The Tower</em>, the house Jung built himself in Bollingen, by the lake of Zurich, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhkoTK4F2clWnYJm4OjelMW5mjKovwvaIaZVTmyPmzQVVVfBwNYcq1SIXhyMigpJPLepZkNyP1NLsTRxMohaXC_vyYFyfo3bbE-ggPsbT6_PP99d3FdgZqydFZmBWN-zkqgC3ZBXTsSnl3/s1600-h/boll1+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291532165245074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhkoTK4F2clWnYJm4OjelMW5mjKovwvaIaZVTmyPmzQVVVfBwNYcq1SIXhyMigpJPLepZkNyP1NLsTRxMohaXC_vyYFyfo3bbE-ggPsbT6_PP99d3FdgZqydFZmBWN-zkqgC3ZBXTsSnl3/s200/boll1+001.jpg" /></a>where he bought some land in 1922. He first wanted to build there a kind of primitive hut, <blockquote>But I altered the plan even during the first stages of building, for I felt it was too primitive. I realized it would have to be a regular two-story house, not a mere hut crouched on the ground. So in 1923 the first round house was built, and when it was finished I saw that it had become a suitable dwelling tower.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 140pt">(MDR, <em>The Tower</em>)</span> </blockquote><br />It represented for him the maternal hearth. He became increasingly aware that something was still lacking. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALPykZNDo3hOgPC5d6pwnyjjVRqud-wLLLGe28na-SJXawhLNOw9FkIKvE4yi46cyzMvjdiGg1fu_0iHFbNZCcKvDLoqneOO65FSYqt_wO0b9sb6A18BACoi6p15T5hY8VuPigwCNHi82/s1600-h/boll2+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291539297659282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALPykZNDo3hOgPC5d6pwnyjjVRqud-wLLLGe28na-SJXawhLNOw9FkIKvE4yi46cyzMvjdiGg1fu_0iHFbNZCcKvDLoqneOO65FSYqt_wO0b9sb6A18BACoi6p15T5hY8VuPigwCNHi82/s200/boll2+001.jpg" /></a>And so, four years later, in 1927, the central structure was added, with a tower-like annex.<br /><br />That was just a second step: <blockquote>After some time had passed - again the interval was four years - I once more had a feeling of incompleteness. The building still seemed too primitive to me, and so in 1931 the towerlike annex was extended. I wanted a room in this tower where I could exist for myself alone. (...)<br />In my retiring room I am by myself. I keep the key with me all the time; no one else is allowed in there except with my permission. In the course of the years I have done paintings on the walls, and so have expressed all those things which have carried me out of time into seclusion, out of the present into timelessness. Thus the second tower became for me a place of spiritual concentration.</blockquote><br />There is no picture for this 3rd step, and then came the 4th one, 4 years later: <blockquote>In 1935 the desire<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5QCQi5IftOcL5ExsKJM_sx7o0vJUnYZDNfwwh3wSB6vjKw8tJaNBNygV4Po3TxD_UyRBe3iSSAT4K88dhM7YsiRU9x635MPS8KkdY-lpRQnoaeTjxNPQIWy6X3sGF32CBpZzEXBApvBVD/s1600-h/boll4+001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291536237288930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5QCQi5IftOcL5ExsKJM_sx7o0vJUnYZDNfwwh3wSB6vjKw8tJaNBNygV4Po3TxD_UyRBe3iSSAT4K88dhM7YsiRU9x635MPS8KkdY-lpRQnoaeTjxNPQIWy6X3sGF32CBpZzEXBApvBVD/s200/boll4+001.jpg" /></a> arose in me for a piece of fenced-in land. I needed a larger space that would stand open to the sky and to nature. And so - once again after an interval of four years - I added a courtyard and a loggia by the lake, which formed a fourth element that was separated from the unitary threeness of the house. Thus a <strong>quaternity</strong> had arisen, four different parts of the building, and, moreover, in the course of twelve years.</blockquote>I put in bold "<strong>quaternity</strong>" as it is not Jung's word, who used <em>Vierheit</em>, while the "unitary threeness" was <em>dreiheitlichen Hauptkomplex</em>. Probably the translaters were good Jungian disciples who felt the keyword 'quaternity' matched perfectly this 3+1 pattern.<br />A striking thing is the insistance upon the four-year period, as if a superior time-dependant force had led Jung in its architectural adventure. In 1923 he was 48, 12 times 4, and in 1935 he was 60, 15 times 4. Another way to put it is that he was 4 times 12 when he started a 12-year building activity, a perfect 4-1 pattern.<br /><br />But a fifth step came in 1956: <blockquote>After my wife's death in 1955, I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am. To put <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5P1HjVAK9hH7BkXsxlv0UV4cI6dGMtMIqncX16fLO303YHWNlnJPOZup1uyZfDmQBSVdtYd2usRiH4AeLJBjWAVQfgTb05Ma9cIFMWdThWb9sDYOkEIU-RwIjWZPbOClwvYy7lzJ6apzD/s1600-h/kandingen.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282147044851326274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5P1HjVAK9hH7BkXsxlv0UV4cI6dGMtMIqncX16fLO303YHWNlnJPOZup1uyZfDmQBSVdtYd2usRiH4AeLJBjWAVQfgTb05Ma9cIFMWdThWb9sDYOkEIU-RwIjWZPbOClwvYy7lzJ6apzD/s200/kandingen.JPG" /></a>it in the language of the Bollingen house, I suddenly realized that the small central section which crouched so low, so hidden, was myself! I could no longer hide myself behind the "maternal" and the "spiritual" towers. So, in that same year, I added an upper story to this section, which represents myself, or my ego-personality.(...)<br />It might also be said that I built it in a kind of dream. Only afterward did I see how all the parts fitted together and that a meaningful form had resulted: a symbol of psychic wholeness. <strong>It did develop, like an old seed which would have germinated.</strong></blockquote>I put in bold the last sentence, which is not present in English <em>MDR</em>, but I checked it was in the original German: <em>Es hatte sich entwickelt, wie wenn ein alter Same aufgegangen wäre</em>.<br />I won't try to guess how could have been forgotten this sentence, which looked very meaningful to me when I read the French translation. From the Quaternity (or rather <em>Vierheit</em>) arose a fifth part, like from 68-year old tired Jung in 1944 arose another himself, who would produce his essential works, within another 17 years.<br /><br />Jung built his tower in a dream. These two nouns look a bit alike in German:<br />der TURM<br />der TR<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>A</strong></span>UM (same 4 letters plus an 'A' in the middle)<br /><br />Before the last step in 1956 came another important event, on Jung's 75th birthday: <blockquote>In 1950 I made a kind of monument out of stone to express what the Tower means to me.</blockquote>It's quite striking this came 15 years after the first ending of the Tower in 1935, when Jung was 60, 4 times 15.<br /><em>MDR</em> is so rich everything <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUnLkOhKESECIY6wuzYFk6VrGUZzXyN-QnsmCTiRqTorcJH5YtgNEtKIlnMCnlAQWfNXuxWacL1x4MCdlowiPUbaRE8DEfVTbSqhQvcQX_4c1R6INhJPhn0RkiiKubTJS3sIiwANMD86Z/s1600-h/bollingen.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 10px 2px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243556591752929042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUnLkOhKESECIY6wuzYFk6VrGUZzXyN-QnsmCTiRqTorcJH5YtgNEtKIlnMCnlAQWfNXuxWacL1x4MCdlowiPUbaRE8DEfVTbSqhQvcQX_4c1R6INhJPhn0RkiiKubTJS3sIiwANMD86Z/s200/bollingen.JPG" /></a> should be quoted, how the stone arrived by chance in Bollingen, how Jung noticed in its natural structure a small circle, a sort of eye, which looked at him. He chiseled it, and in the center made a tiny homunculus, namely Telesphoros, the Greek child-god of convalescence, thinking of his recovery in 1944.<br />This face of the stone is a perfect mandala, with four quarters around Telesphoros, with a Greek inscription: <blockquote>Time is a child - playing like a child - playing a board game _ the kingdom of the child. This is Telesphoros, who roams through the dark regions of this cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths. He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams.</blockquote></div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-5793423001726015702010-04-04T11:11:00.124-08:002011-11-06T23:24:04.767-09:003: three novels<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXg6tzg5e9CuhzPBSgUsubrX99UnfrEIVe7uYXijbmyDw2Hwg3U_4NJPa2HFTmcyYStKT7sG28efCqa4d6JIMrzLaDkRo6rr7TmqPIOmlLJGI0g1qMvp28VUQe-vs23PsxGeZ3dPqQkkdk/s1600/MWWorld.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: -25px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 128px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256174111715762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXg6tzg5e9CuhzPBSgUsubrX99UnfrEIVe7uYXijbmyDw2Hwg3U_4NJPa2HFTmcyYStKT7sG28efCqa4d6JIMrzLaDkRo6rr7TmqPIOmlLJGI0g1qMvp28VUQe-vs23PsxGeZ3dPqQkkdk/s200/MWWorld.JPG" /></a>I explained on first post how, on September 8, 2008, I woke up with a recollection of a novel I read 25 years ago, <em>The world is made of glass</em> by Morris West, in which Carl Gustav Jung is the main character. In the French translation, he was given a wrong birthday, actually same as mine, July 6.<br />About a year sooner I read a French study about Unica Zürn. I knew she was born on July 6, 1916, and the text said she was born on <a href="http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&rlz=1T4TSEA_frFR344FR344&q=Unica+Z%C3%BCrn+%22Berlin-Gr%C3%BCnewald+le+16+juillet+1916+&btnG=Rechercher&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=">July 16</a>. Although I wrote a text about that (in French <a href="http://remi.schulz.perso.neuf.fr/or/sort.htm">here</a>), I absolutely didn't think then of West's mistake.<br />I later found West's novel I still had in my attic, and here is the passage in its beginning:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAb4ovJ1yytVuJXqLBEIeyEbI4kEG7HFBdCL6xYj9UxonVR7FjO3MoPa_e6ALE2Xq8kaeKe5eN274UwOV4nGmZl_RLGCPRc-z_Gsr9Cj204L-yGWXDy0rn9l_Un-QrMoKgdU_OOh_YTVj/s1600-h/6juli+001.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 3px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291214307613154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAb4ovJ1yytVuJXqLBEIeyEbI4kEG7HFBdCL6xYj9UxonVR7FjO3MoPa_e6ALE2Xq8kaeKe5eN274UwOV4nGmZl_RLGCPRc-z_Gsr9Cj204L-yGWXDy0rn9l_Un-QrMoKgdU_OOh_YTVj/s400/6juli+001.jpg" /></a>Actually it's not West's mistake, as it was not present in the original novel:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UNh7ReCRyWPz6DI3F56FBbNTd9FowiQ1kXOP045hdJUJL8yioNQL8BUI9-oNlKood6PJUHby1-gjOz1KAWwmwDHVzAXCDyDvYG4p2mM0Q0QI3wJchpdgrumRcptax7uduxXwK9uQlU6y/s1600-h/West26.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 3px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 82px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449855723192074338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UNh7ReCRyWPz6DI3F56FBbNTd9FowiQ1kXOP045hdJUJL8yioNQL8BUI9-oNlKood6PJUHby1-gjOz1KAWwmwDHVzAXCDyDvYG4p2mM0Q0QI3wJchpdgrumRcptax7uduxXwK9uQlU6y/s400/West26.JPG" /></a>It goes on with "I am married, with four children and a fifth on the way.", but I couldn't get the last words with <a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=fhwhAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s">GoogleBooks</a>. West shows Jung in 1913, when Emma was actually pregnant of their fifth and last child. The mistake about Jung's birth<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ12W8acTvlYQkLzA5rGt8qiAhe6TWJNGdbQ7lUrPMoPGoYhVIYtftLh12FS1bUUO_tKKqkpkUu5MRwXZs1LzpLIqK4dAhSOWsBEMG_BxZwvHPo3wqibZrQbv4_9yuG0yVV2p_rqC_XNQh/s1600/pilgrim.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 3px 0px 2px 8px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 184px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471012236661398866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ12W8acTvlYQkLzA5rGt8qiAhe6TWJNGdbQ7lUrPMoPGoYhVIYtftLh12FS1bUUO_tKKqkpkUu5MRwXZs1LzpLIqK4dAhSOWsBEMG_BxZwvHPo3wqibZrQbv4_9yuG0yVV2p_rqC_XNQh/s200/pilgrim.JPG" /></a> came to my mind just before I had the intuition of the 4-1 pattern in his life.<br />Curiously enough, a friend informed me after that there was another novel in which Jung is a main character, <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_(Timothy_Findley_novel)">Pilgrim</a></em> by Timothy Findley (1999), and in this plot set in 1912 Findley imagined Emma was too waiting for Jung's fifth child, as he needed her to be pregnant.<br /><br />When I went to sleep late on Sep 7, 2008 there were other novels on my mind. A week sooner, I discovered a novel by French writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Sinou%C3%A9">Gilbert Sinoué</a>, <em>Des jours et des nuits</em> (2001), untranslated in English (<em>Days and nights</em>) but there is a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441183/">TV adaptation</a> broadcasted with subtitles.<br />It's a story about a man in Argentina, in 1930, who dreams of a wonderful woman he was in love with, long ago in another life. They died both in a disaster. His persistent dreams make him see a Jungian analyst, who points <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHR7zVDEmH0Fx0wqxNtHUnVKuzXEO3PzqQ7Mh1Au9-mXAQQEfLMRS9Iex-XIHY5hTldoYUAtlKX1Y9sENey9cQcRql7vPmVTAyJncFW0Ito1452ZRIvhgtI7mqADBxD9fgp0qiVsY8zaOy/s1600/thera.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 3px 0px 2px 8px; WIDTH: 163px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471038593009854786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHR7zVDEmH0Fx0wqxNtHUnVKuzXEO3PzqQ7Mh1Au9-mXAQQEfLMRS9Iex-XIHY5hTldoYUAtlKX1Y9sENey9cQcRql7vPmVTAyJncFW0Ito1452ZRIvhgtI7mqADBxD9fgp0qiVsY8zaOy/s200/thera.JPG" /></a>to their mythical content. Jung is informed of the case and follows it from Swiss.<br />New dreams make Ricardo believe the woman is alive now, in Greece. The clues are so vivid he goes to Greece, and his search makes him find in Crete the archeologist Dora. She first doesn't listen to him, but striking coincidences lead her to accept they had both been in love long ago in Thera (Santorini), where they died in the volcanic explosion<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTA0y0FingaKjHGxiE3EyLt4Fcaq5xa1JG50Ur9JCrtExg-Jp3L-cVHvXp8QKX68kJjZDYhM4MROH1a7MaJHPaxe5jU80Ih4d9suZr04IggJIfkdH_L6VU7a8K305wvZKkLPtS8h8umWka/s1600-h/phaistos2.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243264376872398546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTA0y0FingaKjHGxiE3EyLt4Fcaq5xa1JG50Ur9JCrtExg-Jp3L-cVHvXp8QKX68kJjZDYhM4MROH1a7MaJHPaxe5jU80Ih4d9suZr04IggJIfkdH_L6VU7a8K305wvZKkLPtS8h8umWka/s200/phaistos2.JPG" /></a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini#Volcanic_eruption">island</a>, circa 1623 BC. One of this striking facts is that Ricardo knows something about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc">Phaistos Disc</a> which she studies.<br />She accepts to follow him in Argentina, but the ship <em>Doria</em> that takes them there is wrecked on the way, and they both die again in a disaster.<br /><br />This reminded me of some novels by locked room mystery French master, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Halter">Paul Halter</a>. Some of it has been translated, but not the three ones where he uses his other passion, Minoan civilization.<br />It would be too long to detail the common points, anyhow the question if I was right or wrong is secondary here, as I first try to tell what was on my mind just before Sep 8. I was a bit right actually as the two authors were quite surprised with these common points: they didn't know their respective works.<br />I'll stick to the last of those three Halter's, <em>Le chemin de la lumière</em> (2000, <em>Path of light</em>). Michel, a young man, flies towards Crete where he has found a job on an archeological site, that is quite new to him. During his journey he sees in a kind of dream the words 'path of light', wondering what it might mean. He thinks too of a girlfriend he had years ago, Andrée, with whom he had lost all contact.<br />Andrée is waiting for him at the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1axDqvboNRSANfF0pGe0DnKyg2APZ6ma1uN3MIg2atsvO1pYp8zXZ8II5VRymyChJaoqcfFEVjgHJ7naWRp-cID8sPN3phU3zcNuxxcRwWm1N-NKg051I6fmH5H4XR2MFh2fvLZ7Elp3/s1600-h/kernos.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243264379794465858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1axDqvboNRSANfF0pGe0DnKyg2APZ6ma1uN3MIg2atsvO1pYp8zXZ8II5VRymyChJaoqcfFEVjgHJ7naWRp-cID8sPN3phU3zcNuxxcRwWm1N-NKg051I6fmH5H4XR2MFh2fvLZ7Elp3/s200/kernos.jpg" /></a>landing of the plane in Crete. She's the wife of an archeologist, and they've found recently the 'path of light', a pottery disc looking like the <a href="http://www.explorecrete.com/archaeology/Malia-Palace/07_Malia_kernos_EN.html">kernos</a> of Malia. She has an idea about its magic use, she experiments it, and the reader is sent 3500 years sooner when a mysterious Andrea is found on a Cretan beach...<br />Then there are alternate chapters about Andrea in ancient Crete and Michel looking for Andrée in modern Crete, until he tries himself the 'path of light'. It's not clear whether he succeeds in rejoining Andrea in ancient Crete, or all of this was delirium. That's the first Halter's novel with a fantastic ending.<br /><br />Looking at the common points between the novels of Halter and Sinoué, I noticed the names of the<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAzWmjD81vtm86P-R-3JC01BIGzlQ_QcgbaUQ8hCOKWxwNeysW8r8_xJUtLF9De5_pTptcOCKUGZ-RjuBwQ4gQfi6LHOobHU1PydsW3WkKcrSb_hKxtiGngBHqGxebYh1HQ-LPKIUXgTY/s1600/AD1956.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471119885715696226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAzWmjD81vtm86P-R-3JC01BIGzlQ_QcgbaUQ8hCOKWxwNeysW8r8_xJUtLF9De5_pTptcOCKUGZ-RjuBwQ4gQfi6LHOobHU1PydsW3WkKcrSb_hKxtiGngBHqGxebYh1HQ-LPKIUXgTY/s200/AD1956.JPG" /></a> two heroins living in Minoan as well as in modern times, Andrea and Dora, the last drowned in <em>Doria</em>'s sinking. That made me think of <em>Andrea Doria</em>'s wreck, about which I didn't know much.<br />I learnt it was the last transatlantic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria">shipwreck</a>, in 1956. When I read about it on Sep 4, 2008, what striked me the most was an anecdote about the actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria#Return_to_New_York.3B_families">Ruth Roman</a>, who was onboard with her 4-year son: <blockquote>In the 1950 film <em>Three Secrets</em>, Roman had portrayed a distraught mother waiting to learn whether or not her child had survived a plane crash. She and her son were separated from each other during the collision and evacuation. Rescued, Roman had to wait to learn her child's fate...</blockquote><br />I enquired about Ruth Roman, born <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Roman">Norma Roman</a>, a perfect anagram (see next post), and learnt <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxkg-RjT2uY1HpYXHTAy_n_q2X0V49VH2_Ijp92Zc6Yxyez1K3taN5oa-rp918PnNfJlYo7LQIcz93CP8H1xsxnP5J370YDYQ34dW0HUAN8IuKjESw93WhSAu98qocSPfinF8k8seQQA9/s1600-h/pansdu.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 4px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 87px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337441791243291682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxkg-RjT2uY1HpYXHTAy_n_q2X0V49VH2_Ijp92Zc6Yxyez1K3taN5oa-rp918PnNfJlYo7LQIcz93CP8H1xsxnP5J370YDYQ34dW0HUAN8IuKjESw93WhSAu98qocSPfinF8k8seQQA9/s200/pansdu.JPG" /></a>she died on 9/9/99. I knew well this schematic date, as it was the day when I finished the only novel (French "<strong>roman</strong>") I ever published. I put it at the end, and found clever to add I began it on 6/6/66...<br />Since that, I had noticed Jung's 4/4/44 (on 4/4/4!), and I thought of writing something about these coincidences, emphasizing upon synchronicity and upon mandala, the round shape in which Jung saw the most prominent archetype, the symbol of the self. Most coincidences between the books deal with round objects. In Sinoué's as in Halter's, there is a mystery about a 'round island', and it is solved when thinking that before the explosion which destroyed a good part of Thera-Santorini, the island was name Strongylé, "round" in Greek.<br />On Sep 7, 08, I went to bed with the four novels, Sinoué's one, and the three Minoan novels by Halter. I had a look at each one of them before sleeping...<br /><br />...and I woke up with the recollection of the mistake in West's novel. It was like, as said Jung about the last step in the building of Bollingen, "an old seed that germinated", from what was to him a<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5P1HjVAK9hH7BkXsxlv0UV4cI6dGMtMIqncX16fLO303YHWNlnJPOZup1uyZfDmQBSVdtYd2usRiH4AeLJBjWAVQfgTb05Ma9cIFMWdThWb9sDYOkEIU-RwIjWZPbOClwvYy7lzJ6apzD/s1600-h/kandingen.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282147044851326274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5P1HjVAK9hH7BkXsxlv0UV4cI6dGMtMIqncX16fLO303YHWNlnJPOZup1uyZfDmQBSVdtYd2usRiH4AeLJBjWAVQfgTb05Ma9cIFMWdThWb9sDYOkEIU-RwIjWZPbOClwvYy7lzJ6apzD/s200/kandingen.JPG" /></a> quaternity, the three parts of the house and the loggia. And from the 4 recent novels, 3+1, germinated a seed planted in 1983 in my brain, when I read <em>The world is made of glass</em>.<br />It's only recently, while working on this English blog, that I realized how much this <em>Andrea Doria</em>'s wreck might have been important, and how many hidden coincidences were left.<br /><br />- It was in 1956, the year Jung found he had to add a room up at the center of Bollingen.<br /><br />- When I first looked at the date, and maybe saw July 25, it didn't mean nothing at that time. Now I'm fully aware<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnKIGdDZeuqhs4KzEvTQ83V-dtBuaxO6fAiHkZ8ZqJLTT1K_s-Da5Uh9ZzsjKQd2pGd_IIuWM4BoW_hPm9bHDmzuJTn72ebMhHJebVVbnoEizXQZzcL2Fx8xiKqZngrydM1vI-BWTjIiP/s1600/AD7_26.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 115px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471144439702466226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnKIGdDZeuqhs4KzEvTQ83V-dtBuaxO6fAiHkZ8ZqJLTT1K_s-Da5Uh9ZzsjKQd2pGd_IIuWM4BoW_hPm9bHDmzuJTn72ebMhHJebVVbnoEizXQZzcL2Fx8xiKqZngrydM1vI-BWTjIiP/s200/AD7_26.jpg" /></a> Jung was born on a July 26, and it was on July 25 at 23:00 NY time when <em>Andrea Doria</em> and <em>Stockholm</em> collided. It was July 26, 7:00 in Western Europe, and that was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria#Andrea_Doria_capsizes_and_sinks">11 hours</a> later when <em>Andrea Doria</em> actually sank.<br />So I enquired about this event, not noticing its exact date, and I woke up a few days later with a question in my mind about Jung's birthday.<br /><br />- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_West">Morris West</a> died on Oct 9, 99, exactly a month after Ruth Roman.<br /><br />- The initials A-D of <em>Andrea Doria</em> have ranks 1-4 in the alphabet.<br />This reminds me of a puzzling coincidence about 4-1 pattern in Jung's life.<br />On last Feb 25, a friend who is a great fan of Austrian tenor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tauber">Richard Tauber<img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446229542641939170" border="0" alt="ténor et mercédès" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7YbV3AmDiBeivXHdYhbAUcMReoS6kwGqnhyFhX2AOYduYaBggrwGMxNP6LIiji2QunVr-7fK6Oau8XtKVPxoCGtgS1fGSoSYPNHPBJRsGpSdgUNSpRu67zWCyDVEqVNuOyWbKqCf2haTw/s200/mercedes.JPG" /></a> sent me a picture of him beside one of his Mercedes, asking me if its number, clearly readable, meant<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmc4hVbcVpeL-PxIBrxhxWEcr49_Ca9KU0kZChWBX9LgbpEFmE3MupUzc36b2WQ-DsA-DQfy3aY_tjCpIbeOy1q4o7w4lyzUgwRCZCHHxP6_gkuy3MsK071g8T9eRh1vfsF1-QcvAYLwfX/s1600-h/IA-25088.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 131px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 75px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446230174433785074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmc4hVbcVpeL-PxIBrxhxWEcr49_Ca9KU0kZChWBX9LgbpEFmE3MupUzc36b2WQ-DsA-DQfy3aY_tjCpIbeOy1q4o7w4lyzUgwRCZCHHxP6_gkuy3MsK071g8T9eRh1vfsF1-QcvAYLwfX/s200/IA-25088.JPG" /></a> something to me.<br />Sure! 25088 is 4 times 6272. Jung had lived 25088 complete days before 4/4/44 morning, and he would live 6272 complete days after.<br />Any relation between Tauber and Jung? Doesn't seem so, besides the fact they were two contemporary celebrities, but there is a strange thing about the seldom word in German <em>Tauber</em>, "male dove", which Jung heard in a dream around Christmas of 1912. He was in a loggia set high up on the tower of a castle. A dove came in, transformed into a little girl, played a while with Jung's children. She tenderly placed her arms around Jung's neck... <blockquote>Then she suddenly vanished; the dove was back and spoke slowly in a human voice. "Only in the first hours of the night can I transform myself into a human being, while the male dove (<em>Tauber</em>) is busy with the twelve dead". Then she flew off into the blue air, and I awoke.<br /><span style="MARGIN-LEFT: 130pt">(MDR, <em>Confrontation with the Unconscious</em>)</span></blockquote>West mentions in his novel "the dove speaking with a human voice", alluding to this dream where many 'Bollingen keywords' appear: <strong>tower</strong>, <strong>loggia</strong>, <strong>12</strong> (this dream about 12 dead was in 12/12, and Jung took 12 years to build Bollingen quaternity).<br />It has to be thought too Jung had 4 children at this time. His 5th child was not yet "on the way", a girl, Helene, born on March 18, 1914. The four previous children were born in years 04-06-08-10, with a regularity recalling the first four steps of Bollingen in 23-27-31-35. Then there is a jump, with last child in 14, and last room in 56, after Emma's death. Maybe Findley was right when imagining Emma pregnant in April 12...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1XYQL096uTtrfp0z5KTLpjJNiMmpDx2ipv9NiRjn3vjudHdNyTEZE4BAcm3qt3uJ7sHtuIdkauM1uIHl6h3phSS03VWx8soOsB4TRRVfjvY6T11CMANlKzbeUrdvlQdjaz5mtKtdY3ym/s1600/6272LY.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 143px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471384438792024066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1XYQL096uTtrfp0z5KTLpjJNiMmpDx2ipv9NiRjn3vjudHdNyTEZE4BAcm3qt3uJ7sHtuIdkauM1uIHl6h3phSS03VWx8soOsB4TRRVfjvY6T11CMANlKzbeUrdvlQdjaz5mtKtdY3ym/s200/6272LY.JPG" /></a>I come back to the real Tauber, the man singing with a dove voice, and driving a 25088 car. Not long after my friend sent me that information, I was in the 'capital of my state' (Digne in French department 04), and I saw a van with number 6272<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzcmg74diT_mW3jqwtue_i3fa2aqn_x7kUQcrOx2FcQoDlX8d0P1wXSq9rwZhzUBDETK6XWRyg4mlC1yWK2h0Ox7ssdlJiCLMZNRy019ocf7HSR-JkS_g3zigvlc8p40FyGXy_z366BGp/s1600/627204.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 79px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 29px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471384571417495010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzcmg74diT_mW3jqwtue_i3fa2aqn_x7kUQcrOx2FcQoDlX8d0P1wXSq9rwZhzUBDETK6XWRyg4mlC1yWK2h0Ox7ssdlJiCLMZNRy019ocf7HSR-JkS_g3zigvlc8p40FyGXy_z366BGp/s200/627204.JPG" /></a> turning in next street. I followed it, hoping to take a picture, and it parked in a garage to inflate its tyres.<br />I took a picture, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUKyV1KgiUWi0ijiVYjwV3Qfn09034VgW_EY_insJY4iIXu8cG3BXzlR8ymigPGHV7iL5VuOGLEvo_WrnR8_WOMiH42yuS0a5SQFzswnz6DtQWn-bCOfM2LGqs642L2DnVLuBecs21CsR/s1600/018.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 144px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471166004985410274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUKyV1KgiUWi0ijiVYjwV3Qfn09034VgW_EY_insJY4iIXu8cG3BXzlR8ymigPGHV7iL5VuOGLEvo_WrnR8_WOMiH42yuS0a5SQFzswnz6DtQWn-bCOfM2LGqs642L2DnVLuBecs21CsR/s200/018.JPG" /></a>and then noticed it parked just above letters AD, AD as <em>Andrea Doria</em>, as 1-4. My picture was taken on April 1, 4/1, but in <img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; FLOAT: left" alt="April-Fool-s-Day-20.gif" src="http://www.planebuzz.com/April-Fool-s-Day-20.gif" width="150" height="162" />French we say "1er avril", 1/4.<br />This is speaking to a Jungian, as one of the first examples of synchronicity given in Jung's famous book is a case about April first, Fools' day.<br />AD stands for Auto-Distribution, a company which rules hundreds of garages in France. Enquiring about it, I learnt it was bought recently by the group <strong><a href="http://www.towerbrook.com/press/75/">TOWER</a></strong>brook. </div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-58581527164085304132010-04-04T11:11:00.123-08:002011-11-06T23:23:43.628-09:004: D-DAY<div align="justify">I came to wonder if there might have been an 'outer reason' to Jung's 'resurrection' in 1944. I put the words between guillemets for there are many thousands of people who like Jung nearly died, if not being declared clinically dead, but I hope to have shown Jung's case has some peculiarities deserving a deep study.<br />So the most important outer event was indeed World War II, which was still raging in the beginning of 44. The balance had turned in 43 with the German defeats in Russia and North Africa, but the Allied still had a big job to win against two nations engaged in a total war.<br />As 4/4/44 is so strangely linked with the 4/5ths of Jung's life, I won<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqGxnepZ27vGAFo3koAFF80TpQu-s0ogJX_fyFrGB6xF9_qSkZV2pwSjnmwEVvtCh5B3BsGcQT8-G0pxochfFylFSFGbBpG-SrYwilYD1E8_wJgbtuEujpHjhyphenhyphenYvziyRl6SPbNGsG219sf/s1600/poland.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 209px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467694620482549026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqGxnepZ27vGAFo3koAFF80TpQu-s0ogJX_fyFrGB6xF9_qSkZV2pwSjnmwEVvtCh5B3BsGcQT8-G0pxochfFylFSFGbBpG-SrYwilYD1E8_wJgbtuEujpHjhyphenhyphenYvziyRl6SPbNGsG219sf/s320/poland.JPG" /></a>dered which day would mark the 4/5ths of WWII's total duration. Its beginning is clearly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland">invasion of Poland</a> on Sept 1, 1939, followed two days later by war declarations of England and France.<br />WWII's end might be discussed, May 8, 1945 only signifying Germany's surrender. The first date I thought of was the day Emperor Hirohito announced to his people Japan's surrender. His speech was broadcast at noon Japan standard time on August 15, 1945.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaLQADOEvpG30mlgJBtwSb8ZSS24z-DsNEXGP766AgDitQhtJcyyZfrX0T-BSVcGCMA8GnbAMqPAj3LApYVL9d_C6e9YRzhEaiEOP6O9NFzalEwW3mKDow_LGM2XmoU8ConZKv_va9tb9d/s1600/VJday.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407938714088848082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaLQADOEvpG30mlgJBtwSb8ZSS24z-DsNEXGP766AgDitQhtJcyyZfrX0T-BSVcGCMA8GnbAMqPAj3LApYVL9d_C6e9YRzhEaiEOP6O9NFzalEwW3mKDow_LGM2XmoU8ConZKv_va9tb9d/s200/VJday.JPG" /></a> This is called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day">V-J Day</a> (<em>Victory over Japan</em>), although there is an alternative date with the official signature in September.<br />Here it is necessary to put the events in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time">Greenwich Mean Time</a>, which was 9 hours late with Japan time, so Japan's surrender was at 3:00 GMT on Aug 15, 1945, while invasion of Poland at 4:30 AM Germany time was at 3:30 GMT on Sept 1, 1939. So we have about an exact number of days, and the <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=1&m1=9&y1=1939&h1=3&i1=30&s1=0&d2=15&m2=8&y2=1945&h2=3&i2=30&s2=0">site</a> already quoted shows easily that WWII lasted 2175 days, within a few minutes (to have an exact count, I put 3:30 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKnTbXnFEMCejNHc_-bnHdIV_YkQquOvsgXfC0T46OvlVshvk9zTCz58Y-DwXtFBsmd9m2JTigg6dbm1lXOXzkxmyXmsKFoh_By6YvVb_WGE3pMwJGfCDXryMlhW9W_MygrduS-ObfTxPD/s1600/VJDay14.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 67px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468389556191139554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKnTbXnFEMCejNHc_-bnHdIV_YkQquOvsgXfC0T46OvlVshvk9zTCz58Y-DwXtFBsmd9m2JTigg6dbm1lXOXzkxmyXmsKFoh_By6YvVb_WGE3pMwJGfCDXryMlhW9W_MygrduS-ObfTxPD/s200/VJDay14.JPG" /></a>for Japan's surrender, which anyway was announced a bit after noon Japan time).<br />As Japan and America are separated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line">Date Line</a>, VJ Day falls on Aug 14 in the USA.<br /><br />The 4/5ths of 2175 are 1740, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHZquUOaCtxmz64z_lGrnQLM02qPoi7YimJljLRyp4v7ilcykfmhh0em4ZMv9AEiSLqdznqfe0yLhkQeDZ2YVZ03qdcy0EQQqJ6UZyfXqeO0RGck8YHJ1tLFSjPsoos5yDfBLWcOR-iOHM/s1600/dday.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 120px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 159px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408090154619581426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHZquUOaCtxmz64z_lGrnQLM02qPoi7YimJljLRyp4v7ilcykfmhh0em4ZMv9AEiSLqdznqfe0yLhkQeDZ2YVZ03qdcy0EQQqJ6UZyfXqeO0RGck8YHJ1tLFSjPsoos5yDfBLWcOR-iOHM/s200/dday.JPG" /></a>and <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=1&m1=9&y1=1939&h1=3&i1=30&s1=0&d2=6&m2=6&y2=1944&h2=3&i2=30&s2=0">1740 days</a> after Sept 1, 1939, 3:30, lead to June 6, 1944, 3:30, at the very moment when began what is considered as the most important military operation in all times. At this hour most of the about 6000 boats engaged in the Neptune operation are a few miles in front of the 5 chosen beaches, and the soldiers are embarking on the LSTs that will land in the first glows of dawn, at about 5:00 GMT.<br /><br />Well it's not clear how Jung's survival might have helped the success of the D-Day, but the choice of Aug 15, 1945 as the end of WWII leads to quite strange echoes:<br />- 4/5ths of WWII fall on Tuesday 6/6/44.<br />- 4/5ths of Jung's life fall on Tuesday 4/4/44, exactly 9 weeks earlier.<br />- Jung died on another Tuesday 6/6, June 6, 1961.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9GBeF_XGoJJTprvOnYkeBu6ohlIElladQWGP2CNSDXCfbdvPZ8KFJANWe3GBs8OoPulXZv1HKnsJMNJgeLm04cH16eMCrVJVJafglcCq9f61EpTnC0kpxIX9r09vX8fdKO7EIp19VSmq/s1600/UOGJS.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468051155717726850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9GBeF_XGoJJTprvOnYkeBu6ohlIElladQWGP2CNSDXCfbdvPZ8KFJANWe3GBs8OoPulXZv1HKnsJMNJgeLm04cH16eMCrVJVJafglcCq9f61EpTnC0kpxIX9r09vX8fdKO7EIp19VSmq/s400/UOGJS.JPG" /></a> On another hand, it's quite striking that there were 5 landing sites, often given by their codenames UTAH-OMAHA-GOLD-<strong>JUNO</strong>-<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNxknFcebJIZdjDn4xCjlQscmYj6WP1fpdUInn6gBZNxDia3ja6lqpHCkYRqyqNKRIfbd0CJdkrjWybpyoMf8NRsbjZFRo8B8NJ3ds5JwvHJr35su1S9TkjxGwGXNdoawQNqwh6ctXpo-/s1600/junosword.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 8px; WIDTH: 171px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468048574288375970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNxknFcebJIZdjDn4xCjlQscmYj6WP1fpdUInn6gBZNxDia3ja6lqpHCkYRqyqNKRIfbd0CJdkrjWybpyoMf8NRsbjZFRo8B8NJ3ds5JwvHJr35su1S9TkjxGwGXNdoawQNqwh6ctXpo-/s200/junosword.JPG" /></a>SWORD, often in this order from West to East (here on a wall of the Caen Memorial Museum).<br />The striking point is that the 4th of the five sites is JUNo, while Overlord started in JUNe (<em>JUNi </em>in German), at the 4/5th of WWII, while JUNg was slightly recovering health and was beginning the last fifth of his life.<br />Going on in JUNk talking, JUNo is Latin name for Hera, wife of great god Zeus (the Overlord ?) While Jung was between life and death in March 44, he saw himself in a classical amphitheater situated in a verdant chain of hills: <blockquote>Men and woman dancers came on-stage, and upon a flower-decked couch All-father Zeus and Hera consummated the mystic marriage, as it is described in the Iliad. (<a href="http://kaleidoscope-forum.org/talk/index.php?topic=1964.msg25760#msg25760">MDR</a>, <em>Visions</em>)</blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus#History">Zeus</a> is a continuation of <em>*Diēus</em>, the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime, deriving from the basic form <em>*dyeu</em>- ("to shine", and in its many derivatives, "sky, heaven, god"). Zeus is indeed the god of the SKY, HIMMEL in German, and I found the letters composing HAEMMERLI, the doctor that saved Jung, could rearrange in a perfect crossing of HIMMEL and HERA:</div><div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 174pt"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:red;"><strong>H I M M E L<br />E<br />R<br />A</span></span></strong></div><div align="justify">While Greek Hera has to do with "air", Latin <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(mythology)#Etymology">Juno</a> might come from Etruscan <em>uni</em>, "unit", or from an Indo-European root meaning "young" (German <em>jung</em>), so the etymology of the derived month <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyY38c8qY1DGaU3wnfzlIjQYD3xQKkchgqHcw6CCDQyyCAJ1MfuJHwdkN5tZEFIsWYbE-HqNzdeKeluMlG2sW0CkcYGE5TAYOykam_WQO0YmfIS0sctNdcrwhra29ng2GKlQ5I8O2nvKSd/s1600/66440.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408090149320332002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyY38c8qY1DGaU3wnfzlIjQYD3xQKkchgqHcw6CCDQyyCAJ1MfuJHwdkN5tZEFIsWYbE-HqNzdeKeluMlG2sW0CkcYGE5TAYOykam_WQO0YmfIS0sctNdcrwhra29ng2GKlQ5I8O2nvKSd/s200/66440.JPG" /></a><em>Junius</em> is too doubtful (it was originally the 4th month in Roman calendar, the last one to have a proper name, while following one was <em>Quintilis</em>, "fifth", then renamed <em>Julius</em>).<br />If the weather had been fine on June 4, as the precise day of the Landing was just scheduled in the beginning of June, and if the beginning of the year had not been changed by Julius Caesar, D-Day would have been 4/4/44.<br /><br />About crossing words, a famous coincidence is the appearance of the 5 solution words Utah-Omaha-Gold-Juno-Sword in the <em>Daily Telegraph</em> crosswords within a few months before the D-Day. It became alarmous when the main keywords Overlord-Neptune-Mulberry appeared the week before 6/6/44, so an inquiry was led by the MI5 and the puzzlemaker was arrested (but soon released). It seems today there was an <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1460892/D-Day-crosswords-are-still-a-few-clues-short-of-a-solution.html">explanation</a>, but a Jungian approach might add something.<br />Here is the grid of puzzle 5797 from May 27, 44, with some of the clues (complete clues <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1173547/posts">here</a>, but I couldn't find anywhere the solutions, except for 10-11 Across which are COTTER-OVERLORD):<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQcd9ahWBi9uqjxh3JzspMV8MHuavHDxyIsd-I2efGszbn2AW6j2TaXnsBYrVNX_P8QGYZDCKEcDI20FTjS2H-kxjRNX5n169Ofo0Pbppucsq-jzXO-zLghC9O8jrrESrqv91aTAHbsv1/s1600/5797.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 230px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 230px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468086383589254098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQcd9ahWBi9uqjxh3JzspMV8MHuavHDxyIsd-I2efGszbn2AW6j2TaXnsBYrVNX_P8QGYZDCKEcDI20FTjS2H-kxjRNX5n169Ofo0Pbppucsq-jzXO-zLghC9O8jrrESrqv91aTAHbsv1/s320/5797.JPG" /></a>ACROSS<br />10 Not apparently very high-class land... (6)<br />11 ...but some bigwig like this has stolen some of it at times (8)<br /><br />DOWN<br />18 There's no list for the ships on this (4,4)<br />19 Of secret coded position, and not taxed (4,4)<br />22 What a girl might expect if a sailor gives her the bird (6)<br />23 Cool place to work in (6)<br />24 Figure of speech is turned on quite a way (6)<br />25 Asked for convalescent patient's meal (6)<br /><br />I put the last Down clues because their numbers of letters allow to write two times the date 6/6/44 (which actually nobody knew as Neptune was scheduled on Jun 5, but repelled for bad weather). It's weird too to find the words 'ships', 'secret coded position', 'sailors', and the 'convalescent patient' reminds us of Jung who, from his hospital bed in Zürich, kept informed about the new front in Western Europe.<br />I notice there are 68 shaded cases on the grid, 4 times 17 as it's a symmetric grid. There are 17 clues Across (and 17 clues Down). Roughly Jung lived 68 years before 4/4/44 and 17 after.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYux3NfdMm2uE_XsAWnNR7DGvbnqxYFgDh7Y1akEdcVpYBZQP5TiEq5z3AWu1al60KwrOmCzVeRcrjlRVAZ38Vj0dosvzOs0XsOGMxPOqBr9_JZxHGsb03g_0w1Xbr7fK1IAMLJCecSfl/s1600/NYT666.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 5px; WIDTH: 500px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468216317757577314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYux3NfdMm2uE_XsAWnNR7DGvbnqxYFgDh7Y1akEdcVpYBZQP5TiEq5z3AWu1al60KwrOmCzVeRcrjlRVAZ38Vj0dosvzOs0XsOGMxPOqBr9_JZxHGsb03g_0w1Xbr7fK1IAMLJCecSfl/s400/NYT666.JPG" /></a> In another time zone, the NYT could announce the landing in France in its 6 AM issue, although it occured too at 6 AM, France standard time (actually Germany time). I was striked long ago by this beginning of France's liberation under a 6-6-6 repeat, while first World War's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice#Important_armistices_in_history">Armistice</a>, signed on the early hours of 11/11/1918, became effective at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."<br /><br />I discovered the forum <strong>Unus Mundus</strong> on Sep 19, 08, soon after my finding about 4/4/44 which I wanted to share.<br />I noticed a topic called <strong>The 11:11 Phenomenon</strong>, where I wrote my <a href="http://psychophysical.free.fr/viewtopic.php?p=6801#6801">second post</a> on the forum.<br />Last 11/11/09, I wrote <a href="http://psychophysical.free.fr/viewtopic.php?p=8279#8279">another post</a> there, about the movie <em>11:11</em> I had seen recently on a streaming site. I appreciate the random daily addition of movies on these sites, allowing me to discover titles I was not aware of.<br />This 11/11 evening, I visited the site and noticed a movie by William Friedkin,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGkH96tQmOZyvSHJevDHP_tc4MVXimDh2Q8AtiLC5Oc76NwO6HWHGIj3h7xRE9xsui864WsULeXwtIML-UKUZE0aHaHNol7jiI6tn2GEliiRWkOPD0vqCI7ieMj_cn35H9sgMz4bZ9Ko-/s1600/cruising2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 128px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409811547815165154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGkH96tQmOZyvSHJevDHP_tc4MVXimDh2Q8AtiLC5Oc76NwO6HWHGIj3h7xRE9xsui864WsULeXwtIML-UKUZE0aHaHNol7jiI6tn2GEliiRWkOPD0vqCI7ieMj_cn35H9sgMz4bZ9Ko-/s200/cruising2.jpg" /></a> <em>Cruising</em> (1980). I watched it, and was quite surprised during a scene where the cop Al Pacino is searching a suspect's flat. There's a book on a table, Al opens it, and it's a picture painted by Jung in his <em>Red Book</em>. I wouldn't have recognized it if the <em>Red Book</em> had not been published two months ago, and if this picture had not been shown by the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung.3.ready.html">NYT</a>. The movie shows another picture, and a member said it came too from the <em>Red Book</em>.<br />I posted this on the <a href="http://psychophysical.free.fr/viewtopic.php?p=8300#8300">forum</a> late on 11/11. Next day I thought the scene showing the pictures happened just before the stop occurring each 72' period on the streaming site. I went back to it, watching for the exact time. The book is opened at time<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVBaoZ2T-Qnhai7Khoe0pa65CADhjUZV08h8tQ1qVQ5kcvnymNoJVQC1PeeOj92TfdVKAeVy_D2wEBbZjjGCGevHYbtrQhXuCiIB_SKyXJ851bgYvUriI2MK2CnoXO2XzHQvyhfzmzUaw/s1600-h/11111.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 6px 2px; WIDTH: 59px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 24px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410604626364297570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVBaoZ2T-Qnhai7Khoe0pa65CADhjUZV08h8tQ1qVQ5kcvnymNoJVQC1PeeOj92TfdVKAeVy_D2wEBbZjjGCGevHYbtrQhXuCiIB_SKyXJ851bgYvUriI2MK2CnoXO2XzHQvyhfzmzUaw/s200/11111.JPG" /></a> 1:11:09 and closed at time 1:11:16. At time 1:11:11 the camera is sliding from one picture to the other, see right below :<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSXUl3n0ktLI8TNRcGomikJPuhhEjxYiP3_1-CSR43jG8a6pptoAjUwaPJFXJMNmDaqM3RRODFwiAaMKT-0S8zGpgpasJEjPUD10mRxguvBgBr4mW6XzkJE34qUETFPCAvy4xhlQSNV4Q/s1600/cruising11-11.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 3px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 203px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409809784367050194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSXUl3n0ktLI8TNRcGomikJPuhhEjxYiP3_1-CSR43jG8a6pptoAjUwaPJFXJMNmDaqM3RRODFwiAaMKT-0S8zGpgpasJEjPUD10mRxguvBgBr4mW6XzkJE34qUETFPCAvy4xhlQSNV4Q/s400/cruising11-11.jpg" /></a>I'm a bit obsessed by double dates, and my novel mentioned in last post was about murders committed on 3/3, 4/4, 5/5 and 6/6, 1999. D-Day 55th anniversary was mentioned in it.<br />There is a kind of '2/2 phenomenon' associated to the fifth of Jung's life, 6272 days and 4 hours.<br />It only reveals itself on<br /><strong>4/4/44</strong>, 12:00, the time calculated to be his life's 4/5ths,<br /><strong>6/6</strong>/61, 16:00 is his deathtime,<br /><strong>8/8</strong>/78, 20:00 comes then, adding 6272 days 4 hours to previous time,<br /><strong>10/10</strong>/95, 24:00 is the next date,<br /><strong>12/12/12</strong>, 4:00 is the last match, another addition leading to<br />13/02/30, 8:00, but there might be no more calendar then, as Earth's end is announced on 12/21/12...<br />No kidding, 7/26/(18)75 didn't seemed to have anything special, but it is the symmetric date to 12/12/(20)12, taking 4/4/(19)44 as a central point.<br />The 2/2 effect is more tight. Assuming Jung was born at 20:00, he had to die between 13:30 and 16:00 on 6/6/61. The death certificate gives 16:00, while Ruth Bailey reports he died at 15:45.</div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408163219958796371.post-69843937487869039692010-04-04T11:11:00.122-08:002011-11-06T23:22:53.876-09:005: five sonnets<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfWJs1UkInYQmGAUxZ_uNInw3Rg-etziCqcoc_3qe8D6acPp0CH6ZRvvpjEhSyXC8ohDEgr7as95TfTWdsWVExDjAR0kM5TsgEOrKHZeKn6jj1d9C25CZ6M5hWbhswYzV_5pmVxKfeuSB/s1600/rbW.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: -3px 6px 0px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467508240250622210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfWJs1UkInYQmGAUxZ_uNInw3Rg-etziCqcoc_3qe8D6acPp0CH6ZRvvpjEhSyXC8ohDEgr7as95TfTWdsWVExDjAR0kM5TsgEOrKHZeKn6jj1d9C25CZ6M5hWbhswYzV_5pmVxKfeuSB/s200/rbW.JPG" /></a>When I found on Sep 8, 2008, Jung had lived 5 times 6272 days (and 4 hours to be precise), I was immediately struck because I already knew this number 6272, but it took me more than a year to realize how much it was fitting the case.<br />I always had a deep relation with numbers, but left it aside until 1985 when I started a personal research upon Hebrew kabbala. A ten-year study made me feel the results I found were not bound to a single tradition, and that similar results should be found inside profane texts.<br />So I had to find a well-known profane text. It had to be short, and to contain a symbolical schematism. The first one I thought of was the sonnet <em>Voyelles</em> by Rimbaud (<em>Vowels</em>), but the tools I developed in my research didn't reveal there any pattern.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakY-A89K6O5e4k-StZnVwFwtF06ivKFBcrgB-PsMafe7tANGO0ifxnHHarVL1mJaE5uVwDhkHVwc6ZDGoxPWjxl-mnNE4No3KNeXtFo6Fj3XdGT4B-bEtLxkIB591ItKPdJp_QG7i2yY_/s1600/rbE.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467442817435248594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakY-A89K6O5e4k-StZnVwFwtF06ivKFBcrgB-PsMafe7tANGO0ifxnHHarVL1mJaE5uVwDhkHVwc6ZDGoxPWjxl-mnNE4No3KNeXtFo6Fj3XdGT4B-bEtLxkIB591ItKPdJp_QG7i2yY_/s200/rbE.JPG" /></a>Then I remembered Georges Perec wrote a whole <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void">novel</a> without using the vowel E, the most current letter in French, and he gave in that novel a version of <em>Voyelles</em> without any E, <em>Vocalisations</em>. So I put the text in my computer and there was an immediate result. The sonnet has 4 stanzas, 14 lines, 112 words, and its total value, according to the ranks of letters in the alphabet, is 6272 = 4 x 14 x 112.<br />Here I do not ask anyone to consider this as a real important fact, I only ask to accept it was important to me, although I can sense it can look quite silly to pay so much attention to a poem Perec wrote very fast, unconscious of its secret harmony.<br />I was so impressed by this poem that its study made me write a booklet I printed myself in 50 exemplaries, in March 1997. Three were given to public libraries.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxkg-RjT2uY1HpYXHTAy_n_q2X0V49VH2_Ijp92Zc6Yxyez1K3taN5oa-rp918PnNfJlYo7LQIcz93CP8H1xsxnP5J370YDYQ34dW0HUAN8IuKjESw93WhSAu98qocSPfinF8k8seQQA9/s1600-h/pansdu.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 4px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 106px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337441791243291682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxkg-RjT2uY1HpYXHTAy_n_q2X0V49VH2_Ijp92Zc6Yxyez1K3taN5oa-rp918PnNfJlYo7LQIcz93CP8H1xsxnP5J370YDYQ34dW0HUAN8IuKjESw93WhSAu98qocSPfinF8k8seQQA9/s200/pansdu.JPG" /></a>In 1999 I was offered to publish a novel, by someone who read that booklet. I couldn't find any plot introducing Perec's sonnet, but it was such an obsession that, after having <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljZ5rv5gmjGQ1Xo18QsA9iLR3qj9X6yWtg3J3dp_155ZNUObg2-jrSUrEZTJil2lC1ixS1Q1oNvbO9OQ0pL0gzjhEh2IbqcZhC-BnA-HIkgWiFJExVoCamLvNaJvF60Vx8sROmfk2Fxno/s1600/extranas.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 124px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 174px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467726801657291426" border="0" alt="no code in the Spanish translation" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjljZ5rv5gmjGQ1Xo18QsA9iLR3qj9X6yWtg3J3dp_155ZNUObg2-jrSUrEZTJil2lC1ixS1Q1oNvbO9OQ0pL0gzjhEh2IbqcZhC-BnA-HIkgWiFJExVoCamLvNaJvF60Vx8sROmfk2Fxno/s200/extranas.JPG" /></a>written the novel, I noticed it was 14 chapters long and I felt a strong need to encode a line of the sonnet in each chapter. With my publisher's agreement, this was done by printing some letters a bit bigger than the others. It was quite hard to detect, but at least one reader noticed it, deciphered the whole poem, and wrote it to me.<br />My obsession made me regret Perec's poem was not as perfect as it could be, and I thought several times of writing an anagram of it, with each line counting 8 words and the gematria 448 (8 x 56). I did it on Dec 8, 2006, using an online tool a friend just achieved, the <a href="http://www.gef.free.fr/gem.php">Gematron</a>.<br />I was not the first one to write an anagram of Perec's sonnet, there already had been three attempts, in English/American! This because in <em>A void</em>, English translation of <em>La Disparition</em> by British writer Ronald Adair, <em>Vocalisations</em> staid untranslated, as Rimbaud's poem is well-known in England.<br />There was a kind of challenge then, and in April 2001 three authors published their anagrams/translations on the web forum <a href="http://www.anagrammy.com/index.htm">Anagrammy Awards</a>. Unfortunately, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXUM7LQSInzeqNvhCBbV45sUs6bKUXJCzUb_5Cd-JnQu5bO4-OxMozCzytI-MDKK1gYJcne5T9j-dPsC6SU7tnlrRLhJxP3DINPI4Y6SveoMJW9-fUj_AJuBInswt2Ax8ZLoS7g0cs0Xm2/s1600/arsmagna.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 120px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 122px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467779056600239474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXUM7LQSInzeqNvhCBbV45sUs6bKUXJCzUb_5Cd-JnQu5bO4-OxMozCzytI-MDKK1gYJcne5T9j-dPsC6SU7tnlrRLhJxP3DINPI4Y6SveoMJW9-fUj_AJuBInswt2Ax8ZLoS7g0cs0Xm2/s200/arsmagna.JPG" /></a>if these anagrams were perfect, they were based on a wrong text with 4 letters missing, so each anagram had too 4 letters missing. This was partly corrected in May 2006, but a letter still remained forgotten, an S.<br />Anyhow, in the intention, there are four anagrams of Perec's sonnet. I wonder if any other poem had such a fate, the only other examples I couldn't find on the web are on the <a href="http://www.anagrammy.com/literary/various/index.html">Anagrammy site</a>, but <em>Vocalisations</em> seems to be the unique case of a poem anagrammed in several languages by several people.<br /><br />If there had been no mistake, and I do not doubt the other authors would correct their mistakes if they were aware of them, there would be five sets of the same 497 letters giving the gematria 6272. I wrote the final one on Dec 8, 2006, conscious of this number 6272, and exactly 21 months later I discovered Jung's life followed a quite alike schematic pattern: 4 times 6272 days before 4/4/44, 6272 days after.<br />I do not ask anyone to share my feeling about the oddness of Perec's sonnet. By the way it might be a symptom of my most extreme insanity, but it must be admitted that I have a long-time obsession about that poem, about number 6272, and about Jungian pattern 4-1. The more it seems a strange attitude, the more it's astonishing I discovered this number 6272 in the striking pattern of Jung's life.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBc34Ej9W48885ilIAS91cZFh8F4DDCsLEr3-_snbDyuCoCXG3wIAexmogy3zd-z4QCGKUG3AGcUE90lOPQ_vhuUINrCnIaImlymksZdVv2WobYjop_5EWSqHI73Q6V2_EmDgSyVyXxYj/s1600/rb95.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: -5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 144px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469879958317284562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBc34Ej9W48885ilIAS91cZFh8F4DDCsLEr3-_snbDyuCoCXG3wIAexmogy3zd-z4QCGKUG3AGcUE90lOPQ_vhuUINrCnIaImlymksZdVv2WobYjop_5EWSqHI73Q6V2_EmDgSyVyXxYj/s200/rb95.JPG" /></a>Of course I do not consider myself as insane, but the point is secondary in this post, where I stick to things that can be easily checked up.<br />Another striking point is Rimbaud's poem was about 5 vowels, with clearly a quintessential O, and it was the reason for my first thought about it. In Perec's version, as well as in its 4 imitations, the vowels are reduced to 4, so the missing one E becomes in a way the prominent one and the main purpose of the poem.<br />In Rimbaud's opening line, "A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue:", Perec replaced the forbidden E by an allusion to its lack. So did the English translaters, but my additional constraint to have 8 words in each line forbade me any word beyond the 4 vowels and their color correspondances. There was just nothing in the first version I posted on a forum on 8/12/06. My only change then was to add "...," between A and I.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRc-h65vljVRoHZCA-PY41xJtzPEbc5d6GNMtowy7iHv6rg3ejY43m48SD1UOxHvBVUKddJyWDBXahrWIlZErDrQMcondj9_-Eu-afXZPB8tiHJ0-0QG_M9FwWmjb7fKgPhthtsJeW7t-/s1600/rbS.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: -5px 6px 2px 0px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467442806953643330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRc-h65vljVRoHZCA-PY41xJtzPEbc5d6GNMtowy7iHv6rg3ejY43m48SD1UOxHvBVUKddJyWDBXahrWIlZErDrQMcondj9_-Eu-afXZPB8tiHJ0-0QG_M9FwWmjb7fKgPhthtsJeW7t-/s200/rbS.JPG" /></a>So here are the 5 sets of 497 letters.<br />A funny thing is that in the special category of <a href="http://www.anagrammy.com/archives/2001/anag-200104.html">Apr 2001</a> Awards, where are mentioned the anagrams of <em><a href="http://www.anagrammy.com/literary/various/poems-vocalisations.html">Vocalisations</a></em>, the first prize was attributed to a mister <a href="http://www.anagrammy.com/long/hallmarks">Young</a>.<br />Another point is that the three English anagrams follow different patterns:<br />– in the first one the text is treated as a whole block (1)<br />– the second one is an anagram verse by verse (4)<br />– the third one is an anagram line by line (14)<br />– one of my aims was to keep the number of words (112)<br />So the conjonction of these 4 approaches gives again the magic relation<br />1 x 4 x 14 x 112 = 6272<br />which was why I was fascinated by this sonnet.<br /><br />So here is the original by Perec, in 497 letters : <blockquote>A noir, (Un blanc), I roux, U safran, O azur:<br />Nous saurons au jour dit ta vocalisation:<br />A, noir carcan poilu d'un scintillant morpion<br />Qui bombinait autour d'un nidoral impur,<br /><br />Caps obscurs; qui, cristal du brouillard ou du Khan,<br />Harpons du fjord hautain, Rois Blancs, frissons d'anis?<br />I, carmins, sang vomi, riant ainsi qu'un lis<br />Dans un courroux ou dans un alcool mortifiant;<br /><br />U, scintillations, rond<u>s</u> divins du flot marin,<br />Paix du pâtis tissu d'animaux, paix du fin<br />Sillon qu'un fol savoir aux grands fronts imprima;<br /><br />O, finitif clairon aux accords d'aiguisoir,<br />Soupirs ahurissant Nadir ou Nirvâna:<br />O l'omicron, rayon violin dans son Voir!</blockquote><br />I underlined the letter still forgotten on Anagrammy, and I allow myself to correct the anagrams given there, which had only 496 letters. This was easily done as the missing letter is an 's'.<br />Version I by Mike Keith (UK): <blockquote>A void, (missing vocalic), I pain-color, U rococo, O plaid:<br />All adjoin in a rich Latin unit, a curious mix of sound:<br />"A": a noxious squid, that squirms in sun on toxic ground,<br />Scurrilous and full of animal vapors bad,<br /><br />In ruin hid. Did Attila's raucous invasions<br />Ruin a sumptuous land for us, O Russian cur?<br />"I": in crimson blood, spit on fox's fur,<br />In anxious fits of liquor-drunk libation<u>s</u>;<br /><br />"U": auras, vibrations, in murmurs of an Asian rain,<br />Unicorns and carnival animals born on a Druid plain,<br />To rush in unison around Uranus;<br /><br />"O": broad as God's Last Trump. Mind sprain,<br />Quiz, paradox's crux (incur Joy or Pain?),<br />Rotund Initial, Last Avatar, Final Curtain.</blockquote><br />Version II by Richard Brodie (USA): <blockquote>A coal, (albino), I blood, U fruit pulp, O rain vapor:<br />In an anxious, murmurous conjunction:<br />"A", quaint rancid ruinous irritation,<br />A monstrous, unusual bat-lizard draconian,<br /><br />Ruin is afar, fools! Squadrons run, injuring Huns asthmatic;<br />Arran sons sound dolorous trolls in Rubicon bivouacs.<br />"I": chuck sputum on an African addax,<br />An insalubrious sordid liquid plasmatic;<br /><br />"U": quixotic mind-visit<u>s</u> of a non-spiritual Frisian,<br />Fox, gnus, maladroit ox, marsupials, simians,<br />Influx trods up and up, and land turns livid;<br /><br />"O": intoxication of a savior's original sounds,<br />Lo, airs rich in a vivid dulciana!<br />Incur sin, or ruin; or rosy panoramas found.</blockquote><br />Version III by Richard Grantham (UK): <blockquote>A flax, (an aura), I burn, U zircon, or O sun:<br />O, I act out various unsaid natal sojourns:<br />A, minor pallid scorpion in a nocturnal tunic<br />Murmur about, bound to air in liquid pain,<br /><br />Toadish quicksand; clouds' usual rubric or burlap,<br />Proud fronds in Nordic ash, albino rajahs, satin's fuss?<br />An I, a crimson squirt, us smiling in vain - a<br />Torn, not unusual mix of dolour, sin and curaçao;<br /><br />U rolls on 'midst inconstant viridian fluid<u>s</u><br />- Pupa, six Indian addax - I, Faustus, mix it up<br />In matrix of squid's ova; furls run along Roman lips;<br /><br />O is a final caustic air, crux of id or indigo,<br />Arid spans in air haunt Sun or Saviour:<br />O rolls, vivid maroon canyons in Orion!</blockquote><br />Version IV by me (France): <blockquote>a noir, …, i quinquinas, u troublant, o violin,<br />an du jour disparu, surtout pas par hasard.<br />haut a, noir pavillon, ficin pour maints anars,<br />rajas sans contrition au soir du grand matin,<br /><br />but tabou; agoni dans son brouillard aux mains,<br />un parti dort, cristal, la croix du maquisard;<br />i roux, fiction sans gond, rubicond si soiffard,<br />pis d'indivis frimas, nid aux hiboux mutins;<br /><br />u zut, ufo, divin rapport, nul fric crural<br />qu'un canif (son crayon, art commis convivial)<br />n'a conclu, nul lin rilsan, coincoins, dînaillons;<br /><br />o maximum, sillons du saindoux ou du dior,<br />la raison à valoir où nous aussi saurons<br />au knossos infini franchir son portail d'or !</blockquote><br />There would be many comments to add, concerning all these poems. For the moment I'll just point to what striked me just after I discovered the pattern of 6272 days in Jung's life: in my last line I mentioned Knossos, and Knossos, among other details, appears in the two novels I studied before my finding.<br /><br />The historiated initials shown before are taken<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjul-y3yj2PwvGg7LzntKuVp19UwtsA0PhwiJHHjOGALf7UrR4BFYZ-JxyfFcBhbvbtxVDs7yT4KsPTczQhXHdf-dhKJGsrfL5HMPnv9v-evnOhSkvjS5ih1Vo11PJfQTJ16hex8kWYC70Q/s1600/rbAbsentia.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px 6px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467654877973239906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjul-y3yj2PwvGg7LzntKuVp19UwtsA0PhwiJHHjOGALf7UrR4BFYZ-JxyfFcBhbvbtxVDs7yT4KsPTczQhXHdf-dhKJGsrfL5HMPnv9v-evnOhSkvjS5ih1Vo11PJfQTJ16hex8kWYC70Q/s320/rbAbsentia.JPG" /></a> from Jung's <em>Red Book</em>, a manuscript he calligraphied and painted from 1914 to 1930. He never wanted to finish it, although it seems it was finished in his head and he just had to add a few words and some paintings.<br />An example of this is on page 187 where he didn't paint the initial of "Als alles in mir vollendet war..."<br />Unexpectedly, this uncompletion means <blockquote>When everything was completed in me, I unexpectedly returned to the mysteries, to that first sight of the otherworldly powers of the spirit and desire.</blockquote><br />And now here is my sonnet analyzed by the <a href="http://www.gef.free.fr/gem.php">Gematron</a>, with each line equating to 448.<br /><br />a<sup><span style="color:red;">1</span></sup> noir<sup><span style="color:red;">56</span></sup>, <span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';">…</span>, i<sup><span style="color:red;">9</span></sup> quinquinas<sup><span style="color:red;">142</span></sup>, u<sup><span style="color:red;">21</span></sup> troublant<sup><span style="color:red;">123</span></sup>, o<sup><span style="color:red;">15</span></sup> violin<sup><span style="color:red;">81</span></sup>,<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />an<sup><span style="color:red;">15</span></sup> du<sup><span style="color:red;">25</span></sup> jour<sup><span style="color:red;">64</span></sup> disparu<sup><span style="color:red;">88</span></sup>, surtout<sup><span style="color:red;">134</span></sup> pas<sup><span style="color:red;">36</span></sup> par<sup><span style="color:red;">35</span></sup> hasard<sup><span style="color:red;">51</span></sup>.<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />haut<sup><span style="color:red;">50</span></sup> a<sup><span style="color:red;">1</span></sup>, noir<sup><span style="color:red;">56</span></sup> pavillon<sup><span style="color:red;">101</span></sup>, ficin<sup><span style="color:red;">41</span></sup> pour<sup><span style="color:red;">70</span></sup> maints<sup><span style="color:red;">76</span></sup> anars<sup><span style="color:red;">53</span></sup>,<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />rajas<sup><span style="color:red;">49</span></sup> sans<sup><span style="color:red;">53</span></sup> contrition<sup><span style="color:red;">137</span></sup> au<sup><span style="color:red;">22</span></sup> soir<sup><span style="color:red;">61</span></sup> du<sup><span style="color:red;">25</span></sup> grand<sup><span style="color:red;">44</span></sup> matin<sup><span style="color:red;">57</span></sup>,<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br /><br />but<sup><span style="color:red;">43</span></sup> tabou<sup><span style="color:red;">59</span></sup>; agoni<sup><span style="color:red;">46</span></sup> dans<sup><span style="color:red;">38</span></sup> son<sup><span style="color:red;">48</span></sup> brouillard<sup><span style="color:red;">112</span></sup> aux<sup><span style="color:red;">46</span></sup> mains<sup><span style="color:red;">56</span></sup>,<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />un<sup><span style="color:red;">35</span></sup> parti<sup><span style="color:red;">64</span></sup> dort<b><span style="BACKGROUND: black;color:orange;" >[</span><span style="BACKGROUND: black;color:yellow;" >2396</span><span style="BACKGROUND: black;color:orange;" >]</span></b><sup><span style="color:red;">57</span></sup>, cristal<sup><span style="color:red;">82</span></sup>, la<sup><span style="color:red;">13</span></sup> croix<sup><span style="color:red;">69</span></sup> du<sup><span style="color:red;">25</span></sup> maquisard<sup><span style="color:red;">103</span></sup>;<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />i<sup><span style="color:red;">9</span></sup> roux<sup><span style="color:red;">78</span></sup>, fiction<sup><span style="color:red;">76</span></sup> sans<sup><span style="color:red;">53</span></sup> gond<sup><span style="color:red;">40</span></sup>, rubicond<sup><span style="color:red;">86</span></sup> si<sup><span style="color:red;">28</span></sup> soiffard<sup><span style="color:red;">78</span></sup>,<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />pis<sup><span style="color:red;">44</span></sup> d<sup><span style="color:red;">4</span></sup>'indivis<sup><span style="color:red;">86</span></sup> frimas<sup><span style="color:red;">66</span></sup>, nid<sup><span style="color:red;">27</span></sup> aux<sup><span style="color:red;">46</span></sup> hiboux<sup><span style="color:red;">79</span></sup> mutins<sup><span style="color:red;">96</span></sup>;<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br /><br />u<sup><span style="color:red;">21</span></sup> zut<sup><span style="color:red;">67</span></sup>, ufo<sup><span style="color:red;">42</span></sup>, divin<sup><span style="color:red;">58</span></sup> rapport<b><span style="BACKGROUND: black;color:orange;" >[</span><span style="BACKGROUND: black;color:yellow;" >3876</span><span style="BACKGROUND: black;color:orange;" >]</span></b><sup><span style="color:red;">104</span></sup>, nul<sup><span style="color:red;">47</span></sup> fric<sup><span style="color:red;">36</span></sup> crural<sup><span style="color:red;">73</span></sup><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />qu<sup><span style="color:red;">38</span></sup>'un<sup><span style="color:red;">35</span></sup> canif<sup><span style="color:red;">33</span></sup> (son<sup><span style="color:red;">48</span></sup> crayon<sup><span style="color:red;">76</span></sup>, art<sup><span style="color:red;">39</span></sup> commis<sup><span style="color:red;">72</span></sup> convivial<sup><span style="color:red;">107</span></sup>)<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />n<sup><span style="color:red;">14</span></sup>'a<sup><span style="color:red;">1</span></sup> conclu<sup><span style="color:red;">68</span></sup>, nul<sup><span style="color:red;">47</span></sup> lin<sup><span style="color:red;">35</span></sup> rilsan<sup><span style="color:red;">73</span></sup>, coincoins<sup><span style="color:red;">101</span></sup>, d<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';">î</span>naillons<sup><span style="color:red;">109</span></sup>;<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br /><br />o<sup><span style="color:red;">15</span></sup> maximum<sup><span style="color:red;">94</span></sup>, sillons<sup><span style="color:red;">100</span></sup> du<sup><span style="color:red;">25</span></sup> saindoux<sup><span style="color:red;">107</span></sup> ou<sup><span style="color:red;">36</span></sup> du<sup><span style="color:red;">25</span></sup> dior<sup><span style="color:red;">46</span></sup>,<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />la<sup><span style="color:red;">13</span></sup> raison<sup><span style="color:red;">76</span></sup><span style="font-family:Arial;"> à</span><sup><span style="color:red;">1</span></sup> valoir<sup><span style="color:red;">77</span></sup> o<span style="font-family:Arial;">ù</span><sup><span style="color:red;">36</span></sup> nous<sup><span style="color:red;">69</span></sup> aussi<sup><span style="color:red;">69</span></sup> saurons<sup><span style="color:red;">107</span></sup><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br />au<sup><span style="color:red;">22</span></sup> knossos<sup><span style="color:red;">112</span></sup> infini<sup><span style="color:red;">61</span></sup> franchir<sup><span style="color:red;">77</span></sup> son<sup><span style="color:red;">48</span></sup> portail<sup><span style="color:red;">91</span></sup> d<sup><span style="color:red;">4</span></sup>'or<sup><span style="color:red;">33</span></sup> !<span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS';"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:blue;">[448]</span><br /><br /><div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 14pt"><em>[Ce texte de<span style="font-size:130%;"> 497 </span>lettres a une somme gématrique de<span style="font-size:130%;"> <b>6272</b></span>.]</em><br /></div>[This text of 497 letters has a gematric sum of 6272.]</div>blogruzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934063262706923954noreply@blogger.com2