© Gunnar Tómasson
8 April 2017
I. Poet-Ape and Classcial Yahoo Version
(Ben Jonson and Jonathan Swift)
1038700
Poet Ape
4707 = On Poet-Ape
22358 = Poore Poet-Ape, that would be thought our chiefe,
21702 = Whose workes are eene the fripperie of wit,
14123 = From brocage is become so bold a thiefe,
15695 = As we, the rob’d, leaue rage, and pittie it.
22145 = At first he made low shifts, would picke and gleane,
21385 = Buy the reuersion of old playes; now growne
17994 = To a little wealth, and credit in the scene,
19578 = He takes vp all, makes each mans wit his owne.
21867 = And, told of this, he slights it. Tut, such crimes
17655 = The sluggish gaping auditor deuoures;
23174 = He markes not whose ’twas first: and after-times
16562 = May iudge it to be his, as well as ours.
18313 = Foole, as if halfe eyes will not know a fleece
24677 = From locks of wooll, or shreds from the whole peece?
Classical YAHOO
29389 = My reconcilement to the YAHOO kind in general might not be so difficult,
27742 = if they would be content with those vices and follies only
16109 = which nature has entitled them to.
28918 = I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket,
29025 = a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician,
23673 = an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like;
21992 = this is all according to the due course of things:
27680 = but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind,
31712 = smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience;
16203 = neither shall I be ever able to comprehend
23793 = how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.
18151 = The wise and virtuous HOUYHNHNMS,
27249 = who abound in all excellences that can adorn a rational creature,
17517 = have no name for this vice in their language,
25268 = which has no terms to express any thing that is evil,
33916 = except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their YAHOOS,
27857 = among which they were not able to distinguish this of pride,
25062 = for want of thoroughly understanding human nature,
32660 = as it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides.
13149 = But I, who had more experience,
29903 = could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild YAHOOS.
28618 = But the HOUYHNHNMS, who live under the government of reason,
24582 = are no more proud of the good qualities they possess,
19709 = than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm;
20619 = which no man in his wits would boast of,
20500 = although he must be miserable without them.
26594 = I dwell the longer upon this subject from the desire I have
29110 = to make the society of an English YAHOO by any means not insupportable;
33973 = and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice,
22445 = that they will not presume to come in my sight.
1035053
II + III + IV = 294671 + 658933 + 81449 = 1035053
II. Modern Yahoo Version
(Contemporary history)
294671
19386 = „For many amusing hours of gematriatic folly,
28176 = don‘t miss Gunnar Tómasson‘s Shakespeare-Saga Cipher Articles,
23141 = which apply a form of gematria that the author claims
24735 = to have discovered in a 13th Century Icelandic manuscript.
27459 = It seems to have been known to everybody in 16th Century England,
10756 = down to the sexton
28471 = who kept the records of the church at Stratford-upon-Avon,
28878 = but then mysteriously vanished from human consciousness
17455 = until Mr. Tómasson „rediscovered“ it.
26601 = The essence of the cipher message is that „William Shakespeare“
17123 = was a purely fictitious character
35301 = whose works were actually written by a gigantic Elizabethan committee.“
3879 = Tom Veal
1304 = 13 June – 4th month old style
2006 = 2006 A.D.
294671
III. And yet be bold, O – wretched – Man, divine thou art.
(The Golden Verses of Pythagoras)
658933
22268 = Man, wretched Man, thou shalt be taught to know,
23953 = Who bears within himself the inborn Cause of Woe.
16941 = Unhappy Race! That never yet could tell
20275 = How near their Good and Happiness they dwell.
17740 = Depriv‘d of Sense, they neither hear nor see;
16072 = Fetter‘d in Vice, they seek not to be free,
17950 = But stupid to their own sad Fate agree.
25196 = Like pond‘rous Rolling-stones, oppress‘d with Ill,
21053 = The Weight that loads ‚em makes ‚em roll on still,
15792 = Bereft of Choice, and Freedom of the Will.
18066 = For native Strife in ev‘ry Bosom reigns,
17850 = And secretly an impious War maintains:
19029 = Provoke not THIS, but let the Combat cease,
16118 = And ev‘ry yielding Passion sue for Peace.
23006 = Wouldst thou, great Jove, thou Father of Mankind,
16365 = Reveal the Demon for that Task assign‘d,
20915 = The wretched Race an End to Woes would find.
13682 = And yet be bold, O Man, Divine thou art,
15669 = And of the Gods Celestial Essence Part.
16846 = Nor sacred Nature is from thee conceal‘d,
18826 = But to thy Race her mystick Rules reveal‘d.
17583 = These if to know thou happily attain,
19994 = Soon shalt thou perfect be in all that I ordain.
23807 = Thy wounded Soul to Health thou shalt restore,
14688 = And free from ev‘ry Pain she felt before.
18437 = Abstain, I warn, from Meats unclean and foul,
16826 = So keep thy Body pure, so free thy Soul;
17633 = So rightly judge; thy Reason, so, maintain;
18256 = Reason which Heav‘n did for thy Guide ordain,
16921 = Let that best Reason ever hold the Rein.
16695 = Then if this mortal Body thou forsake,
16669 = And thy glad Flight to the pure Æther take,
17175 = Among the Gods exalted shalt thou shine,
14884 = Immortal, Incorruptible, Divine:
19453 = The Tyrant Death securely shalt thou brave,
16300 = And scorn the dark Dominion of the Grave.
658933
IV. Saga Cipher Key – Brave New World
(Snorri Sturluson – Francis Bacon)
81449
1 = Monad/God
Covenant of Reykjaholt
(13th Century Iceland)
18278 = Skrín þat es stendr á altara meþ helgo domo
19936 = gefa þeir Magn oc Snorre at helfninge hvar þeirra
21953 = oc es þetta kirkio fé umb fram of þat es áþr es talet.
Saga Cipher Encrypted
In Covenant Text
11931 = Saga Cipher Key
Death‘s Dark Dominion
360 = Devil‘s Circle
Soul‘s Health Restored
8990 = Brave New World
81449
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