© Gunnar Tómasson 25 September 2017 Hidden Poetry The Author 4951 = (Shakespeare) Alpha 6149 = Edward de Vere Omega 7936 = Edward Oxenford 19036 New Man 4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power – Coming of Christ 7936 = Edward Oxenford 7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 24 September 2017 Introduction The William Shakespeare Project, the present author submits, was conceived by Our Ever-living Poet of the Dedication of Shakespeares Sonnets as the final phase of a linear evolutionary path from time immemorial to the present. As here construed, the Project builds on ancient Hebrew and Pythagorean Creation Imagery […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23. september 2017 I. Snorri Sturluson – „Út vil ek.” 43746 4427 = „Út vil ek.” Svanr á Svanshóli (Njála, 12. kafli) 4753 =„Verði þoka 7456 = ok verði skrípi 8950 = ok undr öllum þeim, 8245 = er eptir þér sækja.” Hulinn verndarkraftur 5915 = Blóð Krists 4000 = Logandi Sverð […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 22 September 2017 Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare (S. Schoenbaum) Nowhere, one suspects, was Shakespeare’s good nature more severely tested than in his complexly ambivalent relationship with Jonson; ambivalent at least on the latter’s side. The mythos fastens upon the rivalry between the two masters. …The rivalry finds most memorable expression in […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 20. september 2017 1. Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir Guðrún giftist fjórum sinnum en tilfinningar hennar eru ein mesta ráðgáta Íslendingasagnanna. Þegar hún er spurð að því í sögulok hvern hún hafi elskað mest svarar hún: „Þeim var ég verst er ég unni mest.“ Um þetta stutta svar hafa menn skrifað óteljandi ritgerðir. (islendingasogur.is) 2. […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 September 2017 Overview 3780079 The Law of Moses 304805 = Torah 755545 = Am I my brother‘s keeper? 468222 = Abomination of Desolation 2246396 = Christ foretelleth the destruction of the temple 5111 = Euen so, Come Lord Iesus 3780079 Book of Revelation (Chs. 20-22) 1005015 = […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 18 September 2017 Overview I. Behold the handmaide of the Lord 3415271 As in: 2436027 = II. The Nativity of Jesus Christ 878864 = III. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke 100380 = IV. The New Atlantis 3415271 *** I. Behold the handmaide of the Lord. (Luke, Ch. I, King […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 September 2017 I. The Murder of Snorri Sturluson (Saga of Icelanders, Ch. 151) 872813 24923 = Þeir Kolbeinn ungi ok Gizurr fundust í þann tíma á Kili 16169 = ok gerðu ráð sín, þau er síðan kómu fram. 17253 = Þetta sumar var veginn Kolr inn auðgi. 12973 = Árni, er […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 September 2017 Introduction In 1598 an unknown author of considerable talent and great charm wrote a series of satires, which he called Scialetheia, or A Shadow of Truth. In his snapdragon verses he described the vanity of the times. Staying late after the play at the Curtain, he had the wit […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 14 September 2017 Introduction (Wikipedia) The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll’s earlier poem […]
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