GRGR(6) - Ep. 15 Reader Dissonance.
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jul 16 17:43:55 CDT 1999
Jill Adams wrote:
> Having chunked GR across the room I am de lurking to ask "WHY?"
And therefore in order to promote so useful a work, I will here take leave to
glance a few innuendoes, that may be of great assistance to those sublime spirits,
who shall be appointed to labor in a universal comment upon this wonderful
discourse. And first (note Cabalists), I have couched a very profound mystery in
the number of Os multiplied by seven, and divided by nine. Also, if a devout
brother of the Rosy Cross will pray fervently for sixty-three mornings, with a
lively faith, and then transpose certain letters and syllables according to the
prescription in the second and fifth section, they will certainly reveal into a
full receipt of the opus magnum. Lastly, whoever will be at the pains to calculate
the whole number of each letter in this treatise, and sum up the difference
exactly between the several numbers, assigning the true natural cause for every
such difference, the discoveries in the product will plentifully rewards his
labor. But then he must beware of Bythus and Sige, and he be sure not to forget
the qualities of Acamoth.
---Come up, Yeats! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
It's quite simple, He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's
grand father and that he himself is the ghost of his own father. Weep no more,
woeful reader, weep no more, tis only black marks on paper.
Terrance
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