clue:  "Mistah Kurtz is not dead" is taken from the book "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.  The sentence in the book,
however, reads: "Mistah Kurtz- he dead"  Mr Kurtz was an ivory trader in the Belgian Congo.  In the story, he sets himself
up as a God to the natives to get their obediance, but after a while he begins to believe in his own divinity.  He dies
completely out of his mind mumbling "The horror, the horror!"

#11:  According to some paper I found (server not responding so have to rely on google's cached copy), "Luther used
to say that God's word of law was God's opus alienum".

The quote in #10 seems to be from Bunyan about grapes.  Any vineyards in Corsicana?

"Ora pro nobis" and "Orate pro nobis" are used when reciting the litany of the saints.In the latin responses 'ora pro
nobis' becomes 'orate pro nobis' when more than one saint is invoked.Hope this helps...

May 1st, 1986  Mayday Mystery Notes:

Dominant Theme:  'Open thy mind to that which I reveal,/ And fix it there within'

1)      The Man/God ?jesus? is not dead, but will arrive and assist the revolution

2)      Our Best Guess is 490 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW, 20219

3)      Instrument and Visual Marker-August 1st -86

4)      Visual only Marker, June 25th '87 (June 25, 1530 The 28 articles of the Lutheran churches are presented to the
Emperor Charles V. (The Augsburg Confession). 


5)      Having made the necessary change: Owsley, 1647 Virginia Street, 94703 ('65) (note, Owsley had his first LSD factory
here)

6)      Set the time as per 'oh my delayed joy'

7)      Periods of Terrible Sanity:  Note the binary swapped to decimal reads as the ZIP-code of Augsburg Germany.  The
Lutheran church sees the 'Augsburg Confessions' as true to the word of God.  These confessions were placed before Henry the
Fifth on June 25th, the date mentioned in (4)  


8)      With much force: advance on your enemies while appearing harmless

9)      National Council of Churches-'the bow is bent, make from the shaft'-get out of the way of this anger


10)     32.17N 96.47W is near Nangqen China, 'the lips of those who sleep' is a quote from Song of Songs in the bible^Å
Matthew, Chapter 7 verse 9 '9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine - Going down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding
through the lips of those who sleep.'
  
11)     Opus Alienum:  Luther said his work in preaching the Law of the Lord, as opposed to preaching comfort, was his Opus
Alienum.  His method was to comfort, not to reproach sinners.  'To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own' is quoted
from Shakespear's 'Love's Labour's Lost' Act V. 
 
'Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt
The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out
There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,
To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:
So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.'


12)     "Dum in partibus infidelium" Latin 'Dum' means 'while' and 'in partibus infedelium' is a term meaning 'in the
lands of the unbelievers," words added to the name of the see conferred on non-residential or titular Latin bishops, for
example: "John Doe, Bishop of Tyre in partibus infidelium. Formerly, when bishops were forced to flee before the invading
infidel hordes, they were welcomed by other Churches, while preserving their titles and their rights to their own dioceses. 
'Freedom is the recognition of necessity' is a quote from Hegel's 'Tragedy of the Commons'.  I believe it has to do with
restricting individual rights in order for the state/common freedom to thrive.  

13)     Looks like repubgirl and the others hit this one, though I note that besides being quoted in Hamlet a number of
times, the Catholic Church often exchanged indulgences for ducats.  

14)     See repubgirls comments

15)     To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. AND WHO IS
SUFFICIENT FOR THESE THINGS?

So it seems that there is a heavily Lutheran context to this page, and the nod to Hegel and Mao.  I don't see how the
LSD/Owsley thing fits in, nor the Mao quote.  I took the liberty of widely interpreting a few of the entries, to possibly
provoke some thought.  Although I wasn't able to find much information about a connection between LSD and the other two
topics, Lutheranism and Communism have a strongly antagonitic past, which I find odd when so many of the pages here deal with
both^Å

As pointed out on 01.08.03, "Mistah Kurtz - he dead" is from Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness. However, it is also
prominently quoted at the opening of T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men", which is famous for ending with the lines: "This is the
way the world ends/Not with a bang, but with a whimper". Could be some clues in the poem.

theres more import to the "binary" i think.  btw, for those that flipped it, an alternate flip (of the decimal
equiv) would be 89006.  still, the first appearance says coordinates (0,1) : binary.

and the repeat has the (o,1) also, making me think that theres an importance there.  the "binary" is either giving the
location of (0,0), or perhaps further modifiying it.  i dont know why, but i feel like it represents part of an equation
for a gemetric figure, with teh values 0 and 1 giving the rest.  

as for the spanish, we are talking about a group of well read, well educated old fogies, right?  why in the world would
they use mexican spanish?  they would use the court spanish of old spain.  in which case, theres small differences im sure,
but the big one that points out to me, adobe does not mean brick.  adober means to marinate or soak.  adobes means you
marinate or you soak.  so the meaning changes significantly, and is likely part of a proverb. for example, a friend of mine
has what i could only describe as a mini scimitar with a spanish phrase on one side that translates as "when the dead do
defy, save your cold blood"  its likely part of an obscure proverb.

also, these are code freaks, and im reminded of Asimovs short mysteries, where the aged Griswald told stories to younger
men.  one was about using books as codes, where a book would be mentioned, and a page number, and a line number, and using
the words from there in some pattern one would decode what was there.  so it is possible that the literary refferences are
giving a book that all members would own, and the quote itself identifiying a starting point.  it could even be that it is
used as a public key to decode completely seperate messages that were sent in other ways.  

also, there are instances of the use of provebs as a code, for example, thieves cant, when it existed, and even cokney
speech.  in cockney, if you refer to your limehouse, thats your stomach, because a lime house was a room with the walls
made of lime, and was used for keeping food.  thats because the lime would absorb odors and prevent food from cross
contaminating.  (the reason we use baking soda in fridges today)  there are other examples, and i cant help when reading
these notices but to think of the stng episode darmoka and jalad at tanagra.  for example, when 475 riverside is mentioned,
maybe its a reference to an actual event that occured at that address.  in which case, the codes being used are truly
unbreakable by th eoutside.  (well, shy of a LOT of study of the principals, but that would require some serious work, and
chance of discovery.)

Okay - I know this may sound strange, and I have just started reading this wonderful Mayday stuff - but have you ever turned
this article upside down? The Chinse characters in the left margin, seem to make a combination of numbers and letters when upside
down. Now, perhaps this is just a strange coincidence... but it still seems odd to me.  Anyone else notice this?

Re #10:

There is a Russell Stover's candy manufacturing plant in Corsicana, TX. The full quote from Bunyan is:

"Now I beheld in a dream, that they talked more in their sleep at this time than ever they did in all their journey; and being in a
muse thereabout, the gardener said even to me, "Wherefore musest thou at the matter? It is the nature of the fruit of the grapes of
these vineyards to go down sweetly as to cause the lips of them that are asleep to speak."

The combination of "sweetly" and there not being much else in Corsicana, leads me to think that perhaps the point of the messages
is to encode a meeting location and time and also to tell any potential new recruits what items to bring with them to identify
themselves. A box of Stover's candies is fairly conspicuous, if carried.

very small note....Bob suggested that 8. was translated to say something like 'while you are resting, make brick'....made me
think of the Israelites in the first part of Exodus who are commanded to continue to make bricks for the Pharoah instead of taking
time to spend with God. Their lives became inseparable from the making of bricks....

Off-topic: "Limehouse" is rhyming slang: Limehouse Cut - gut. The Limehouse Cut is a canal in east London.

Kitchener was a Boer War figure, though not at the time this message was sent ...

clue:  1)"Mistah Kurtz" - is from T.S. Elliot "The Waste Land"

This fits more with "The Orphanage's" use of classic works than "Heart of Darkness"

Just a correction...as stated before, the line is not from "The Waste Land," but in "The Hollow Men." Also, "Heart of
Darkness" was published in 1902 (23 years before the publishing of Eliot's poem). Eliot's work is considered more modernist, and if
anything, Conrad's would be the focus of "classical literature." 

It doesn't matter. I think that the point is the connections. In both references, the line is one of desolation, one referring to
the fate of man who seeks to become God. It's important to remember that these quotes aren't here just to be looked up and
cross-referenced, but rather to be applied in some relevant manner to the (sometimes creepy sounding) task at hand.

Date (9/1/98) in item #14) "Sub sigillo:" is flipped over 180 degrees. Rotate it back to
normal to get 86/1/6.  This is a key stating that other numbers in the announcements should be
rotated, flipped, or even mirrored occasionally.  It may relate back to the binary number in #7)
"periods of terrible sanity:" If the binary is converted to decimal as is, it become 86009.  After
rotating it 180 degrees, it becomes 60098 that points to Woodstock, IL.  If 86009 is mirrored, it
becomes 90068 pointing to Hollywood, CA.  I think the 60098 is probably accurate.

Here is a fun twist to the same idea of rotating and mirroring numbers that actually ended up
pointing to an excellent movie about Martin Luther.  However, the movie is in 2003, not 1986.

I rotated the binary number to get 10011111111100101, then converted it to decimal (81893). I
didn't find anything for 81893 so I mirroed it to get 39818, which is located in the heart of
Bainbridge, GA (not related to the announcements).  I did a search on "Bainbridge Reformation" and
came up with a Bainbridge Cinemas."  Check out the movie review for Martin Luther:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/141295_luther26q.html

	Addresses listed in #2, #5, and #9 are actually Pi numbers found within the first 200
	Million digits of Pi.
	
	#2) 490 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW, 20219:
	
	49020219 is located at 47,202,469 decimal digit of Pi
	
	#5) 1647 Virginia Street 94703:
	
	164794703 is located at 99,886,377 decimal digit of Pi
	
	#9) 475 Riverside, 10115:
	
	47510115 is located at 54,287,522 decimal digit of Pi

Since not only millions of digits of pi but literally billions of digits, could be trillions by now, are known
in their exact sequence, it seems that Thomasson's point is very well taken.  You could send a very detailed and
complex message that had no obvious connection with the verbal text if it were geared to the sequence of digits in pi.

Virtually any sequence of digits can be found at some point in pi if you carry it out to enough decimal places.  I have
found my birthdate, my address, and basically any random numbers I could think of.  Do not place any value on the pi theory.

clue:  #2 Is very probably a street address in DC, as SW is a quadrent, 20219 is a zip code that fits with dc zip codes and
L'enfant plaza is a nieghborhood and metro stop.

"O tardium gaudium meum" (see Carlos' clue on this page) also shows up in the September 20, 2000 announcement.
Another mention of chronometers can be found in the 2/22/88 announcement. Marine chronometers are obsolete technology-wise,
but they're valuable - well, at least expensive - collector's items. http://www.bottomoftheharbour.com/chronometermain.html
But of course "chronometers" here could just mean very precise clocks.

Appogiatura is a term in music. I dont remember it's meanning.

Near a Terminal suggested earlier that "periods of horrible sanity" was from a misprint or rare edition of one of Poe's works.

This is not the case.

Poe wrote a letter to George W. Eveleth dated January 4, 1848. Here is the relevant passage:
Six years ago, a wife, whom I loved as no man ever loved before, ruptured a blood-vessel in singing. Her life was despaired of. I took leave of here forever & underwent all the agonies of her death. She recovered partially and I again hoped. At the end of the year the vessel broke again--I went through precisely the same scene. Again in about a year afterward. Then again--again--again & even once again at varying intervals. Each time I felt all the agonies of her death--and at each accession of the disorder I loved her more dearly and clung to her life with more desparate pertinacity. But I am constitutionally sensitive--nervous in a very unusual degree. I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

So, "intervals" for "periods" and "horrible" for "terrible."

Intervals may be significant in this rigamorole somehow. I'm more interested in the idea of these as confessional--a type of coded confessional that dreams of bringing something into being.

The date of the location for the Superconducting Supercollider was after this ad appeared, so Bob's comment of 8/14/01 is misleading.

Comments: The prase "O tardium gaudium meum!" appears in The Confessions of St. Augustine, book 2. (Augustine, 2.2.2)
(http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/conf/text2.html#TB2C2S2)

'While you Are Resting, Make Bricks' May be a cryptic message for

'Don't forget the cause, even though we can't meet'.

Just my two cents.

leitmotiv
"Mutatis mutandis" basically means "with the necessary changes having been made".

Comments: When a genius appears in the world you will know him by this sign: the dunces are all against him.

	In 1986 we are given the dead reckoning as an address yet in 1987 we are given a key. K90370625A. Perhaps a serial number.

The Spanish sentence is badly written: "Mientras que descansas, haz adobe". 
It's not the same 'has' as 'haz'. It is the imperative form of the verb "hacer" (do, make, produce). The form 'has' is the wrong spelling because of the similar 
sounds between /s/ and /z/ in some linguistic Spanish variants (in South America  or some southern areas of Spain). 

As for the sentence itself, it is an old proverb, not very popular indeed (I have never heard it before). And it was used by farmers or peasants after finishing 
their farm labours. So that was the moment of their rest. Instead they used to make 'adobe', an uncooked brick made of sand, hay, mud and so on. Then they would 
sell those bricks so that the neighbours could build their houses. That's why they used to say in those resting moments: as you are having rest, make some adobe. 

Well, I cannot think of any reason why the author of this mystery used that proverb. It is only known to farmers and peasants, not commonly used in daily life. 
And very old indeed. 

RE: Carmen--her remark was just brought to my attention.  It is CORRECTLY written because it is colloquial, uneducated Border Spanish.  
They actually speak and write  that way along the upper reaches of the Rio Grande.  They do not learn any form of correct Spanish--hence the citation.