© 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 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 14 February 2018 Foreword Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. (Sir Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, 1882-1944) The same is true of the subject matter of this present post. And, while the Saga Cipher serves to establish numerical consistency between parts of the […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 13 February 2018 I. And then thou louest me for my name is Will. (Shakespeares Sonnets # 134-136. 1609) 790864 # 134 17485 = So now I haue confest that he is thine, 14624 = And I my selfe am morgag’d to thy will, 16515 = My selfe Ile forfeit, so that […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 12 February 2018 Hypothesis Sonnet # 20, Line 2 The Master Mistris of My Passion = 16052 Rival Poet 3858 = The Devil Dark Lady 4628 = Mary Magdalene The Poet’s Passion 4000 = Flaming Sword – Coming of Christ Poem’s End 2692 = Island – Iceland […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 11 February 2018 I. The Sunne for sorrow will not shew his head. (Romeo and Iuliet, Act V, Sc. iii. First Folio) 116802 20397 = A glooming peace this morning with it brings, 23470 = The Sunne for sorrow will not shew his head; 18776 = Go hence, to haue more talke […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 10 February 2018 I. Definition of Plato’s World Soul (Construction G.T.) 105113* Three Values of π (See 8 Feb., 2018) 28878 = The Same 20886 = The Other Jacob’s Ladder 5015 = Eight Natural Notes Descending 5015 = Eight Natural Notes Ascending The Zodiac 45319 = Twelve Houses** 105113 *The sum of […]
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