© Gunnar Tómasson

13 May 2016

I. Eternall Reader, You haue heere a New play

(1609 Preface, Troilus and Cressida)

948513

  16240 = Eternall reader, you have heere a new play,

13010 = never stal’d with the Stage,

23708 = never clapper-clawd with the palmes of the vulger,

16660 = and yet passing full of the palme comicall;

13201 = for it is a birth of your braine,

21808 = that never undertooke any thing commicall, vainely:

17249 = And were but the vaine names of commedies

16357 = changde for the titles of Commodities,

9385 = or of Playes for Pleas;

17692 = you should see all those grand censors,

17625 = that now stile them such vanities,

21808 = flock to them for the maine grace of their gravities:

15928 = especially this authors Commedies,

11471 = that are so fram’d to the life,

23461 = that they serve for the most common Commentaries

13925 = of all the actions of our lives,

23403 = shewing such a dexteritie and power of witte,

17657 = that the most displeased with Playes,

13245 = are pleasd with his Commedies.

21167 = And all such dull and heavy-witted worldlings,

20251 = as were never capable of the witte of a Commedie,

23426 = comming by report of them to his representations,

30076 = have found that witte there that they never found in themselves,

19072 = and have parted better-wittied then they came:

16531 = feeling an edge of witte set upon them,

22250 = more then ever they dreamd they had braine to grinde it on.

18999 = So much and such savored salt of witte

27095 = is in his Commedies, that they seeme (for their height of pleasure)

21928 = to be borne in that sea that brought forth Venus.

22553 = Amongst all there is none more witty then this:

16867 = And had I time I would comment upon it,

29490 = though I know it needs not, (for so much as will make you thinke

28055 = your testerne well bestowd) but for so much worth,

18241 = as even poore I know to be stuft in it.

11685 = It deserves such a labour,

22731 = as well as the best Commedy in Terence or Plautus.

15269 = And beleeve this, That when hee is gone,

24766 = and his Commedies out of sale, you will scramble for them,

17673 = and set up a new English Inquisition.

10812 = Take this for a warning,

19638 = and at the perrill of your pleasures losse,

11736 = and Judgements, refuse not,

19867 = nor like this the lesse for not being sullied,

18871 = with the smoaky breath of the multitude;

24849 = but thanke fortune for the scape it hath made amongst you.

21313 = Since by the grand possessors wills, I beleeve,

22266 = you should have prayd for them rather then beene prayd.

14729 = And so I leave all such to bee prayd for

18468 = (for the states of their wits healths)

12252 = that will not praise it.

    1754 = Vale.

948513

II + III = 464058 + 484455 = 948513

IV + V + VI = 729023 + 199022 + 20468 = 948513

II. Be sure, our Shake-Speare, thou canst never die

(First Folio, 1623)

464058

  16331 = TO THE MEMORIE of the deceased Authour

10757 = Maister W. Shakespeare.

21339 = SHAKE-SPEARE, at length thy pious fellowes give

27690 = The world thy Workes; thy Workes, by which, out-live

23143 = Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent,

20473 = And Time dissolves thy Stratford Moniment,

21551 = Here we alive shall view thee still.  This booke,

17964 = When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke

16075 = Fresh to all Ages; when Posteritie

20717 = Shall loath what ‘s new, thinke all is prodegie

20012 = That is not Shake-speares; ev’ry Line, each Verse,

18442 = Here shall revive, redeeme thee from thy Herse.

14951 = Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as Naso said,

20205 = Of his, thy wit-fraught Booke shall once invade.

15543 = Nor shall I e’re beleeve, or thinke thee dead

22080 = (Though mist) untill our bankrout Stage be sped

22293 = (Impossible) with some new straine t’ out-do

14700 = Passions of Juliet, and her Romeo;

14629 = Or till I heare a Scene more nobly take,

22344 = Then when thy half-Sword parlying Romans spake,

18695 = Till these, till any of thy Volumes rest,

19941 = Shall with more fire, more feeling be exprest,

20110 = Be sure, our Shake-speare, thou canst never dye,

21145 = But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally.

    2928 = L. DIGGES

464058

III. But crowned with Lawrell, live eternally.

(Shakespeare Prophecy)

484455

  15621 = The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

1612 = Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland

-1000 = Darkness

438097 = Abomination of Desolation¹

484455

IV, Stratfordian Devil and John the Baptist

(Posting, 12 May 2016)

729023

V. Get thee behind mee, Satan.

(Matt. 16:21-23, KJB, 1611)

199022

  29661 = From that time foorth began Iesus to shew vnto his disciples,

18499 = how that he must goe vnto Hierusalem,

26389 = and suffer many things of the Elders and chiefe Priests & Scribes,

14138 = and be killed, and be raised againe the third day.

19850 = Then Peter tooke him, and began to rebuke him, saying,

22014 = Be it farre from thee Lord: This shal not be vnto thee.

14777 = But he turned, and said vnto Peter,

20644 = Get thee behind mee, Satan, thou art an offence vnto me:

23056 = for thou sauourest not the things that be of God,

    9994 = but those that be of men.

199022

VI. The Last Judgement – Get thee hence, Satan.

(Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel)

20468

  1612 = Hell

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale

4000 = Flaming Sword

7615 = Get thee hence, Satan.

 -3858 = The Devil – Gone!

20468

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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¹ Abomination of Desolation

From message posted to friends on 26 February 2014:

While in Iceland last August, I met with Pétur Halldórsson at the Cafe Milano in Reykjavík. We discussed matters of mutual interest, including what my Saga Cipher work might possibly “mean“.

I took a napkin and, for emphasis, wrote down the number 438097. This is the Cipher Sum of some three dozen names of persons, institutions, dates and events during the reference period, including two famous murder cases, a sex scandal in high places, and presumptive lies told in connection therewith.

I told Pétur (what I had long surmised) that I believed that this number was associated with a watershed event in human history whose final phase was upon our world.

An earth-shaking culmination of human and spiritual evolution.

Epilogue

In an essay entitled The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida”, author and literary scholar Joyce Carol Oates wrote what may serve as apt commentary on aspects of the human condition as reflected in what I have termed the Abomination of Desolation:

Troilus and Cressida, that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare‘s plays, strikes the modern reader as a contemporary document – its investigation of numerous infidelities, its criticism of tragic pretensions, above all, its implicit debate between what is essential in human life and what is only existential are themes of the twentieth century. […] Shakespeare shows in this darkest and least satisfying of his tragedies the modern, ironic, nihilistic spectacle of man diminished, not exalted. […]

[…] Troilus is almost a tragic figure […]. He cannot be a tragic figure because his world is not tragic but only pathetic. He cannot transcend the sordid banalities of his world because he is proudly and totally of that world, and where everything is seen in terms of merchandise, diseases, food, cooking, and the “glory” of bloodshed, man’s condition is never tragic. […] One mistake and man reverts to the animal, or becomes only flesh to be disposed of. As for the spirit and its expectations they are demonstrated as hallucinatory. No darker commentary on the predicament of man has ever been written.