© Gunnar Tómasson 20 December 2017 Mikhail Bulgakov (Encyclopedia Britannica) Mikhail Bulgakov, in full Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, (born May 15 [May 3, Old Style], 1891, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 10, 1940, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet playwright, novelist, and short-story writer best known for his humour and penetrating satire. Beginning his adult life as a […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19. desember 2017 I. Síðustu ár og ævikvöld Sturlu Þórðarsonar (Sturlu þáttr, 3. kafli) 777077 11406 = Þat er frá Sturlu sagt, 14494 = at hann fór til Íslands með lögbók þá, 13578 = er Magnús konungr hafði skipat. 17800 = Var hann þá skipaðr lögmaðr yfir allt Ísland. 11754 = Váru […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 December 2017 Overview King James Bible Dedication 2542548 304805 = The Torah 1455222 = Isaiah, Ch. 60 25846 = Jesus and Snorri 288453 = Luke 17:20-25 468222 = Abomination of Desolation 2542548 *** I. Torah Number of letters in Torah 304805 II. And the glory of the LORD is risen upon […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 18 December 2017 I. It commeth not with obseruation (Luke 17:20-25, KJB 1611) 288453 17:20 16822 = And when hee was demanded of the Pharises, 15665 = when the kingdome of God should come, 10325 = hee answered them, and said, 22919 = The kingdome of God commeth not with obseruation. 17:21 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 18 December 2017 I. The First and Second Coming (Matt. 16:13-23, KJB 1611) 601357 First 16:13 23675 = When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, 11616 = he asked his disciples, saying, 17235 = Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am? 16:14 22774 = And they said, […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 18 December 2017 I. But crown’d with Lawrell, live eternally. (First Folio 1623) 468222 COSMIC TIME 25920 = Platonic Great Year End-of-Time 4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power 4260 = Fr. St. Albans – Francis Bacon‘s Signature The Workes of SHAKE-SPEARE 21339 = SHAKE-SPEARE, at length thy pious fellowes give […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17. desember 2017 I. Ráðgjöf Snorra til Ungra Skálda. (Skáldskaparmál, 8. kafli) 197920 16349 = En þetta er nú at segja ungum skáldum, 15868 = þeim er girnast at nema mál skáldskapar 16723 = ok heyja sér orðfjölða með fornum heitum 15251 = eða girnast þeir at kunna skilja þat, 8474 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 December 2017 I. Blessed art thou, Simon bar Iona (Matt. 16:13-20, King James Bible, 1611) 394811 16:13 23675 = When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, 11616 = he asked his disciples, saying, 17235 = Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am? 16:14 22774 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 December 2017 Part One I. Theological and Philosophical Truth (Essay, Of Truth, 1625) 1441720 16829 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; 16465 = and would not stay for an Answer. 18074 = Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse 13235 = And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe; […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 December 2017 Marlowe and Shakespeare (S. Schoenbaum) „The circumstances of [Marlowe’s] slaying are set forth in detail in the legal records; a jury of sixteen accepted the coroner’s findings. But of such impossibilities the anti-Stratfordians make instruments to plague us,“ Schoenbaum wrote of claims that Christopher Marlowe had in fact written […]