RE: VMs: Newbold Translation

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:

> 	Been there, done that, and done it and done it
> and done it...   If you have a sufficiently flexible
> method, as Newbold did, then you can read anything
> into anything.  The "Bible Code" books of some years
> ago were an example of this sort of thing that made it
> onto the bestseller lists.

I have a bookshelf dedicated to "books that should never have been written",
on which I place ALL my personal manuscripts, alongside the works of the
greatest idiots of our modern age.  My centerpiece is a book by Arthur
Bradford Cornwall, entitled "Francis The First, (The Annagramatic Ciphers of
Sir Francis Bacon)", Cornish Brothers, LTD., Birmingham, England, 1936.  It
is my fervent hope that with enough exposure to household and industrial
chemicals, electro-shock, George Bush soundbites and mind altering drugs, I
can one day write a manuscript as worthy as this one.

This man spent 20 years gathering and "deciphering" title pages from many
famous manuscripts, excerpts from a few not so famous, as well as many
passages from Shakespearean plays.  He then anagrammed every document he
obtained, "using every letter", as if this really mattered, and consistently
came up with a text that "proved" Francis Bacon to be the son of Queen
Elizabeth, the author of the Shakespeare plays, and many other things along
the way.  20 years of his life!

The damage people like this have done to proper Baconian research cannot be
estimated.  I am no fan of the death penalty, but if he were alive today, I
would personally request the honor of "throwing the switch", and sleep well
that night knowing it was a 'mercy killing'.  I'd wake up the next morning
and seek out the Cornish Brothers for publishing the damned fool thing.  But
that of course, is why it is, and will remain, my centerpiece.

GC

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