© Gunnar Tómasson 13 July 2016 I. There you are number’d. (Dedication, First folio 1623) 1089901 13561 = To the great Variety of Readers. 18892 = From the most able, to him that can but spell: 23910 = There you are number’d. We had rather you were weighd. 15557 = Especially, when the fate […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 12 July 2016 Background Take him for all in all. We shall not look upon his like again. Inscription. Shakespeare’s Stratford Statue 1768 The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (Act III, Sc. i, First folio, 1623) 878864 I + II = 391602 + 487262 = 878864 I. Jacob’s Ladder – […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 12 July 2016 I. Excellent writers in her Majesties time […] as it would appeare if their doings could be found out … (Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna, 1622) 261465 30826 = And in her Majesties time that now is are sprung up an other crew 30622 = of Courtly makers Noble men […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 12 July 2016 I. Thy scope is mortall – mine eternall fame. (Ovid‘s Amores, Book 1, Elegia 15) 298870 Alpha 22773 = Envie, why carpest thou my time is spent so ill, 20689 = And tearmes my works fruits of an idle quill? 20588 = Or that unlike the line from whence […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 31 March 2016 The King James Bible, 1611 Dedication 2542548 17083 = To the most high and mightie Prince, James 14782 = by the grace of God King of Great Britaine, 13600 = France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. [c = 100 in &c] 16142 = The Translators of […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 10 July 2016 I + II + III + IV = 80102 + 18467 + 438097 + 2005882 = 2542548 as in: Dedication, King James Bible 1611 = 2542548 I. The Playfield of the Words¹ (Edda, Upsalabók) 80102 18613 = Munnrinn ok tungan er leikvöllr orðanna. 17158 = Á þeim velli eru […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 10 July 2016 I + II + III = 1658168 + 65613 + 282101 = 2005882 and I + IV = 1658168 + 347714 = 2005882 I. Murther most foule, as in the best it is. (Hamlet, First Folio, Act I, Sc. v) 1658168 9462 = Enter Ghost and Hamlet. Hamlet: […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 10 July 2016 I I + II + III = 1218946 + 80102 + 706834 = 2005882 I. Gylfaginning ( First two chapters) 1218946 Chapter 1. 23114 = Gylfi konungr réð þar löndum, er nú heitir Svíþjóð. 20040 = Frá honum er þat sagt, at hann gaf einni farandi konu 26249 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 8 July 2016 Background Höskuldr Hvítanessgoði 11850 1000 = Light of the World 2646 = Hamlet 3394 = Jesus 1861 = Mary 2949 = Ophelia 11850 I. The Murder of Höskuldr Hvítanessgoði¹ (Njála, Chs. 110-112, M) 1143146 21332 = Þat var einn dag, at Mörðr kom til Bergþórshváls. 17216 = Þeir gengu […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 4 July 2016 Pythagoras: ALL is NUMBER http://www.carnaval.com/pythagoras/ Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to mathematics, and felt that everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic cycles. The combination of mathematics and theology began with Pythagoras. According to Bertrand Russell Pythagoreanism characterized the religious philosophy in Greece, in […]