© Gunnar Tómasson 27 February 2018 Vis consilii expers, mole ruit sua Force without wisdom falls by its own weight. Reference Cipher Values (23 February 2018) 3531784 Isaiah, Ch. 29, KJB 1611 1603819 = And the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid Francis Bacon, Essay Of Truth, 1625 1927965 = […] when Christ […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 25 February 2018 Reference Cipher Values (23 February 2018) 3531784 Isaiah, Ch. 29, KJB 1611 1603819 = And the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid Francis Bacon, Essay Of Truth, 1625 1927965 = […] when Christ commeth, He shall not finde faith vpon the earth. 3531784 *** I + II […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 24 February 2018 *** Reference Cipher Values (23 February 2018) 3531784 Isaiah, Ch. 29, KJB 1611 1603819 = And the vnderstanding of their prudent men shall be hid Francis Bacon, Essay Of Truth, 1625 1927965 = […] when Christ commeth, He shall not finde faith vpon the earth. 3531784 *** I + […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23 February 2018 Background The Sealed Book of Isaiah (King James Bible 1611) 29:9-14 Stay your selues and wonder, cry yee out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine, they stagger, but not with strong drinke. For the LORD hath powred out vpon you the spirit of deepe sleepe, and […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 22 February 2018 Background Lord of the Golden Age, the Once and Future King (Giorgio Santillana, Hamlet’s Mill) Here is a character [Prince Hamlet] deeply present to our awareness, in whom ambiguities and uncertainties, tormented self-questioning and dispassionate insight give a presentiment of the modern mind. His personal drama was that he […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 21 February 2018 Background „It is impossible to help but notice now and then that Armado [of Shakespeare’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’] is extraordinarily like Don Quixote in his consistent overestimate of himself and in his insistence on imagining himself a superhuman storybook hero. […] „There is something rather pleasant in the thought […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 20 February 2018. Medieval Warning Time Jesum transeuntem, et non revertentem. I. The Booke of the Generation of Iesus Christ (Matt. Ch. I, King James Bible, 1611) 1019996 1:1 19162 = The booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, 14759 = the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham. 1:2 12282 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 February 2018 Prologue (John 8:58-59) Verely, verely I say vnto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Then tooke they vp stones to cast at him: but Iesus hidde himselfe, and went out of the Temple, going thorow the midst of them, and so passed by. *** I. And it came to passe […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 February 2018. Prologue Dan., KJB 1611 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand vp, the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shalbe a time of trouble, such as neuer was since there was a nation, euen to that same time: and at that time […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 February 2018 I. This we have to tell, for this is history. (Les Misérables, Book Twelve, Ch. VI) 1137823 In these hours of waiting what did they do? This we have to tell, for this is history. While the men were making cartridges and the women lint, while a large pot, full […]
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