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frc-digest                Sunday, 20 November 1994      Volume 01 : Number 058

Rule 27:21 A
Rule 27:21B

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From: KUNNE@crnvma.cern.ch
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 20:07:55 WET
Subject: Rule 27:21 A

I will send two Rules and call them A and B, according to the Judge's
instructions.

And that's all I will do, before my time runs out!

Have a nice weekend.

Ronald

Here's part A:
>>>>>
Dear friends,

I realise that Peter is convinced that somebody is pulling our legs,
but I am not. Besides, I am having so much fun in writing a computer
program capable of reading the handwriting (Northcroft's or not) of the
manuscript, that I will not stop yet.

Allow me to take another bit of my pizza, chili and beef, this time,
my own invention.

The program is not quite debugged. For some reason I don't understand
it works better on pages where Northcroft quotes parts from his own
novels. Curiously, this is the case on page 17 and the dozen pages
that follow.
The original of page 17, as Gareth assured me, was written in red ink
(blood?) on a torn out page of a Bible. A page from the Apocalypse,
very appropriate.
I think the year of writing must still be 1854, although it is
not given.

Here is the text:
- ----
First of December

One of them died today....
It wasn't by my own hands but, by Jove, does it matter?
I am, no doubt, destined for Hell in any case!
He suffocated, blew out his last breath, by the very same method, I
described in my novel `A woman Possessed':

"For a second her mind became clear: she took the pillow placed
it slowly, carefully, almost lovely on the Wizard's face"

Are my chances turning?
There are now four of them left (not counting him who is me)....
- ----

Curiously, Northcroft says that there are four members left in the
committee, *not counting himself*.
I am sure, that any other but me, can and will give an explanation.
I just don't understand it.
>>>>>

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From: KUNNE@crnvma.cern.ch
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 20:09:09 WET
Subject: Rule 27:21B

Hopefully the mail-machine will not bounce part B before part A....

Here's part B:
>>>>>
Page 18 contains only one sentence, which my program recognized
as a quote from `The Onyx Affair'. No date was mentioned, but as
the next page is dated 5/12/1854, this entry (handpainted on silk!)
is probably from the beginning of December too.

- -----
"He who writes riddles, will be the chosen one"
The Observer observed, p. 245
- -----
If this is one of the hints, that Peter talked about, than it excludes
Storm, I guess. She's quite a lady and her writings usually don't
hold enigmas for me.

Storm, please do remember that you owe me a pizza for giving you an
alibi like that!
>>>>>

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