The Torus

I am no silence hater, but I could certainly get up easier back before couplehood when I would hit the play button and have the sonics of my bloody valentine, underworld or smashing pumpkins as a form of electro-shock therapy to stimulate my tired synapses into daylight mode. I sometimes feel like I've been three quarters asleep for a very long time now... And at the other end of the day, I concur. Music, or else the reassuring sounds and voices of the world service would always lull me to a sound sleep in any far flung corner of the huge pink map.

"In one complex dimension, the only compact examples are tori, which form a one-parameter family. The Ricci-flat metric on a torus is actually a flat metric, so that the holonomy is the trivial group SU(1). A one-dimensional Calabi–Yau manifold is a complex elliptic curve, and in particular, algebraic."

I believe 'torus' is the geometrical name for a donut. But I don't know what all of this means.

Silence is golden

i am not sure, but two things i know for certain:

1. Silence is golden, or so they say. I find it a little uncomfortable, personally. I'd rather have a bit of soft rock on quietly in the background. Helps me relax, you see. Silence makes me a little jumpy. I guess I am one of the what Bukowski called 'silence haters'. For instance, since moving in with Kingsbury PI I no longer fall asleep to music. The time it takes me to fall asleep after turning out the lamp has gone from approx 10mins to approx 50mins. That's a fivefold increase. Does this suggest i am 5 times less relaxed in silence than i am with music of the appropriate style/volume?

2. A new contact I have made in non-case related activities looks like the smoking man from X-Files. Just moved down here from Edinburgh a couple of months back. Perhaps I should quiz him on EPPS?

Silent Runners

President Skinner... Was there a Skinner in the FBI, overseeing Agent Mulder's work? Or is Skinner the head of Springfield High School? Or both. Certainly a name to be reckoned with.

I was thinking of the town of Twin Peaks myself earlier today, pondering the mystery of the 'silent runners'. After her head injury, a resident spent time devising a system for silently closing and opening drapes. This always had an air of mystery about it, as if a symbol of something more important. The Eureka moment came when she had the brainwave of using cotton wool, packed onto the drape rail. The result was silent curtains. Was this related to access of the red room, the mysterious other-dimension location with curtains for walls? Does this relate to our own case?

Fox Lake area goods

S.E. of Twin Lakes, WI is a lake known as Fox Lake. I do not know if this is anything to do with the urban fox, but the area is known as a goods [sic?] photography spot and has yielded many 'great shots' over the years. There is also a 'Pell Lake' to the West of Twin Lakes. There are also lakes with names such as 'Wonder Lake' and 'Powers Lake'.

In short, Wisconsin [baby] is a very lakey area, and as such, seems to take on further importance in the case. Perhaps all of these lakes in close proximity are all testing grounds for soft cell activity, perhaps not.

The map co-ordinates of the area are found here. You may find other clues which I have missed in my haste.

Twin Lakes findings

Indeed you're right re: sea levels vs. absorbtion. As I said earlier, I am no scientist. My lack of understanding of this simple matter illustrates this fairly well i think. So, perhaps absorbing water and keeping the sea at sub-Boston levels may well be the motivation behind soft cell activity. Northerly US contacts have brought to my attention the village of Twin Lakes, Wisconsin [baby]. Reminds me of twin peaks, only more aquatic, though equally as woody. Their main ballroom is known as 'The Wonderbar. In 1912 Local post office was in the basement of LeRoy Winter's home. This could be important - we already know mail order techniques and basements are being used by the soft cells. Here we see basement being used for the purpose of mail order storage and collection. Seems highly suspect.

The Twin lakes board of trustees contains the following members (info taken from here)...

President - Howard Skinner Trustees - Sharon Bower, Thomas Connolly , Kevin Fitzgerald, Aaron Karow, Jeremy 'Wooly' Knoll, Mike Moran.

Note the nickname of the 2nd to last member. This reminds me of Lone Wolf's Wold's based observations in early summer. Is there a connection between the 2 wooly knolls? This area is also known as 'the lake district', providing another parallel with northern UK.

Other things of note - 'property auctions' - The Village no longer holds an annual auction. Surplus property is sold via the online auction house eBay. They currently have no items listed for sale. Sounds suspicious to me. If only I had contact with Ethan/Evan; I am sure his local knowledge would help our case.

In response: ice storage

Certainly,

I would always believe the content of a muppets newsflash. In regards to the absorption and storage of water, it was purely for inland lakes that drain by watercourses to the ocean, for which level would be unaffected. I maintain that actual ocean level would be altered by any form of water storage on land. Water storage on land (in the form of ice) is precisely the reason that ocean levels are expected to change, as that water is returned to the ocean.

Underwater solutions: a theory / missing ocean

[this message following a neotic studies link received from this esteemed agent:]

Perhaps this system of mass could be what the term 'Boston Mass' refers to? Interestingly, I read earlier today that one of the most likely early outcomes of continued global warming is that Boston would end up submerged. This takes me back to an earlier postulation; that the suspected woollen structures were/are being made to absorb rising sea levels. This idea was explained by an insightful investigator to be based on a false premise and that sea levels would still rise regardless of the woollens. It now occurs to me that perhaps the whole Searly operation is based around finding/testing solutions for underwater living in the event of rising sea levels and submerged habitations. The great lakes would certainly be a convenient testing ground for such potential solutions; solutions suspended in a a solution, if you will.

One more thing; in a muppets newsflash from the '70s I watched recently, there was a story that the Atlantic Ocean had disappeared. Investigations found that it had been stashed in a Boston apartment. The idea struck me as possibly relevant to the case, but I have been unable to work out how.

How could the entire ocean be hidden in an apartment, I wonder? Through the use of extra dimensions? Maybe.

The God-Box

Interesting. I have recently, by coincidence, if you will, been researching transportation of lightweight boxes. International transportation of boxes uses a system called 'volumetric weight' to calculate transport cost. there is a complex calculation, whereby the dimensions of the box are multiplied by some constant, and if the resultant 'volumetric weight' is higher than the actual 'mass' weight, then cost would be based on volumetric weight. If mass weight is higher, that is used.

I wonder if the mass of particles is actually volumetric in reality, at the small scale.
There is a tract by a known shamanic preacher from Manchester entitled 'godbox'. I wonder if the 'godbox' is the lightweight 'volumetric' particle, it's contents being the missing 6 dimensions. Its contents also being soft and light.

No Scientist...

The Calabi-Yau shape is a theorised space constructed of more than 3 dimensions. Specifically, it contains the hidden 6 dimensions proposed by string-theory. Here is a note detailing their possible description...

2008. "Calabi-Yau (called in the names of two mathematicians (Eugenio Calabi) and (Shing-Tung Yau )) spaces may be that microscopic shape, deep inside the hidden dimensions of string theory. There are many such spaces… According to string theory, space-time isn't 4-dimensional as you might expect, but 10-dimensional. Where are the extra six dimensions? One answer is that they're compactified: roughly speaking, rolled up into such a small space as to be unobservable at human scales. You are in the forest, it is night, and in a moment you are in space, exploring the phenomena, for which there is no explanation and knowledge in our days…And You hear the sound of loquacious water far away from You. The sky is in front of You…You can observe all the planets to be clearly. And there are plenty of animals around You, which You‘ve never seen before, which are so close, that they are almost touching You. Thought is equal to movement, there is no difference between them. There is only one way to understand these visions… It is possible because of «calabi-yau», spontaneous movements and feelings inside myriads of spaces…"
-Faria Records

Images of such spaces can be found here and here . note how they both look woven, particularly the second, soft one. Other details of the Calabi-Yau's characteristics can be found here. However, I am no scientist. For further info, consult Sam Ting and your remaining MIT contacts, if you still have any.

My campus observations are UK-based, and you are right, I do not know who is delivering these boxes of woollens to UK-midlands academia, but I shall try to take a copy of a delivery note this week in hope of finding out.

Sam Eagle

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Interesting developments and postulations indeed. Tell me more about calabi yau. I haven't heard of this discipline.

Where are you situated at present? Where are these boxes being delivered to? (I would also ask where are they being delivered from, but assume that isn't yet known.) Are you on campus in UK or have you returned to the US? If a similar operation is being begun this side of the atlantic, this could be the beginnings of a second round of soft cells. Either a single replication of experiment 31, or else one of many second generation repeat projects. We must keep alert.
As for locating Dan, I suggest you look underground. In the cellar, or on the ground floor at least.

I await Epstein's opinions on using softness to access other dimensions.

Multi-dimensional crochet & campus deliveries

hmmm.... The crochet/yoga angle is an interesting one. Perhaps the yogic prep is key to the outcomes of the hook. Maybe the exercise is no mere pre-stitch warm up, this flexing could be flexing fibres, not muscles, a la don genaro, allowing the practitioners to tap into other realms/dimensions [possibly one of the curled up dimension thought to be universally hidden in calabi-yau shapes], which allows them to execute crochet manouveres otherwise impossible. in short, they may be knitting in more than 3 dimensions, but we 3-D dwellers may not be able to see it. Perhaps this is why you struggled to understand the finely woven structures of your dutch associate.



For my part here, I have been trying to find and/or contact Dan Stairs. I feel he may hold information which may help unravel this whole mystery. Campus-based investigations have led me to discover the daily deliveries of large cardboard boxes, which seem suspiciously light for their size when one observes the delivery men carrying them. Enquiries with the receptionist allowed me to learn that such deliveries are 'for the Knitting Society'. I did not possess sufficient front to begin opening the boxes there and then, so cannot confirm their specific content, but the lightness of the boxes suggest woollen thread [or perhaps pre-knitted structures , possibly to be joined together into yet larger structures] and the amount of them being delivered daily implies a large-scale operation. I shall keep my eyes and ears peeled for possible evidence of their purpose.



The thought now occurs to me that the point of the softness could be exactly that - it is not rigid, but flexible; possibly flexible enough to be bent into space dimensions beyond our familiar 3. Perhaps the soft michigan group are attempting to [or even successfullly] building a new softer world in a new dimension which the average joe is not aware of. I must confer with Epstein on this matter. I am sure Stairs could also shed light on this were he to be found, but would he be willing?



Mr. Marbles

Yogic Crochet & Michelson-Morley

Just going back over a few things… We live in a world of fibres. The Michelson-Morley thing – this was taken as a rejection of the view of mechanised spacetime, whereby the universe is not empty but full of complicated devices, nodes, mechanisms… If there are indeed suggested failings in the Michelson-Morley model, this could be a pincer thrust against the empty spacetime view, in which there is nothing mysterious hovering behind and between atoms; ie. the thruster could be a proponent of a fibrous multiverse theory.

Just the other day I became acquainted with a Dutch yoga practitioner, through a number of mutual friends. The girlfriend of a brother of a friend. After a considerable time spent on various yogic postures and moves in a porch where we were all staying, as dinner was cooking, this dutch girl then went to the crochet, still in her sweat top and jogging cottons. Her hook was very thin. Ultra-thin. I took the chance to get talking crochet with her. I have in my back pocket as I sit here a thicker alternative crochet hook to lend her, but have not seen her again since then. Her crochet book (in Dutch) was full of intricate works, floral designs, motifs. She was working on a spiral form, in soft merino-like light yellow-green. The spiral form looked very complicated, and given the thin hook, was very tight – hard to make out the pattern in order to copy it. It was I think a single rather than double helix, but perhaps a double helix would also be possible. If I can get her to replicate this spiral design using my lent hook, I may be able to get to the bottom of the technique used.

Perhaps where one hook (crochet) yields a single helix, the two sticks of a knitter could double it.

I don’t know exactly how the science and the crafts relate to each other, but I feel a connection does exist. The patterns, threads, fibres being postulated could be the same in each case.

But how does closed-loop technology relate to this?

The yoga postures also seemed relevant. Perhaps the shapes and positions formed were a representation or replication of the types of stitches.

And there’s something about that loose-fit cotton-wear...

The Eleventh Dimension

Was reading last night about how the 11th spacetime dimension is believed to be almost invisibly small [according to some equations, not all]. If it is so, and searly is hiding in there, we have no chance of finding him, at least not this side of a CERN-based revolution.

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Finings are generally eggwhite or gelatine based. Mine were pretty much just dried eggwhites according to the packet. Didn't work though. Nor did sieving through several layers of cheesecloth. There's something in that wine and i can't gettit out dammit. An abundance of small particles suspended in the liquid, approximately a planck length across. I must consult the old masters of wine production and see what remedies they speak of.

Yes, the case may well be blown wide open; but the question still remains, just who is Ronald Searly?

My man on the veg stall gave me an ETA on the cherries of about 6 weeks. I will be ready with yeast and tannins.

Keyhole Sam

Clarity ...

Eggwhite, egg shells, or gelatine.
Finings?? I wouldn’t use nothing where I didn’t know what the word even meant. Well maybe I would if the word was smoof. Or yurve. Or hoomsmeed. They’d go in the mix.

Get onto Epstein. I’ll contact the MIT crew. I think we could soon have this case opened right up. Micro to macro. Damn on.

Super-strung out on a car seat

Quite so. I was reading up on superstring theory last night and it struck me that it seemed applicable to the case - alternate realities, strings, fibres and loops. It's all there in the text, in the theory. I now strongly believe that the soft michigan group are trying to create a new reality, a new american dream, by stitching it together with their own bare hands. No need for large particle accelerators etc. Make the microscopic macroscopic and you have your new world. S string theory is the foremost likely leap in our understanding of the universe, it seems the logical one to base a new method of reality on. The fact the terminology is transferable to sewing techniques and woven matter is highly fortuitous. These cats are knitting a new, softer american dream, all we need to do is find the right thread and we are in there, part of the Pattern.

I must speak with epstein asap.

New wine sounds good. Have been tucking into first batch of parsnip - my first brew. Is good, but a bit earthy. Missing elderflowers, I imagine. Plan to get some more cherry wine on once I get round to clearing space in most recent apartment base.

Any idea on how to clear a cloudy/earthy one? Wine finings failed to help much.

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Superstring theory – I keep meaning to read up on. I’m sure it involves closed loops as well as unclosed strings.

Detectives always wear hats because it is a wintertime activity, indeed. [in response to a suggested document exchange in late oct/early nov autumn/winter crossover period, in a cold room with steamy mugs of tea nearby.] Trying to light a pipe hunched up against a lamppost with the wind to your back, cursing telephones and dames… that’s the life of a true detective.

I think your string theory is worthy of investigation. Low-lifes in high physics. String vest technology.

A New Thread ...

Re: searly case:

I have theories on the knitters' plans, based on 'string theory'; fabricating a new reality for us all to live in once the current one is unworkable - just cross over onto a new thread and leave the old world behind.

Loneliness of the Long Distance Drummer - a conversational aside

[beginning in response to advanced word of imminent photographic evidence of a UK-based beat group, 'the hum':]

Hope the drummer ain’t obscured by no swaying mic stand or neck of bass…

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Perhaps ron searly is hiding behind a drumkit in a basement practice room somewhere.

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I wonder if the psychology of a drummer bears any similarity to that of the long distance runner? alone and steady on the road, alone and steady behind the kit - persistance, consistency and an ability to continue in the productive rhythm unfalteringly no matter how adverse the conditions. these are similarites that immediately come to mind. of course, one involves moving about a lot and one involves sitting fairly still, though i guess a runner's torso is almost stationary and all movement is propelled by the limbs - another similarity.

the question is, do drummers make good runners or do runners make good drummers, or are neither indicative of each other?

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The post-end pub rock outro final du-dum-pah crash must then be the collapse onto the ground after sailing through the tape at the finishline.

My new disguise as bassist also has me considering bassist psychology. The Quiet Man. The pulse… The low notes approaching the subliminal dialogue and instructions… Makes me think of walking blind through tall grass for some reason, playing the bass. Intuition…

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I was an ok runner...and a drummer [quality? dunno...].

not sure if it's a definite correlation. but there is a good range of examples of drummers requiring a bit of fitness...

barring mo tucker.

and she didn't look like much a runner come to think of it.

buddy rich though...he had energy.

zzzzz

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Why I ran, man, Why I ran…

Your comparison is astute. Torso ‘motionless’ – I know what you mean – straightline motion only. Like a donut in freefall. Apparent rest state.

A runner has to keep a beat, certainly. The persistence. The endurance. The heart-rate of a drummer is certainly one of the highest in any discipline. I think beyond what the figures say should be endurable. Over 100 BPM I believe, during particularly energetic fills and syncopations.

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indeed. a drummer also takes the song somewhere - from beginning to end. an intro could be described as the song's startline, the outro the finish line. the song/run is the journey in between. a drummer can also build natural rests into his rhythm if required and the 'sprint finish' is analogous to the pub rock ending. in fact, now i think about it, my half marathon training of circa 2004 probably prepared me more for my current role of drummer than 15 years of guitar playing and other musical practices ever did. left, right, left, right, breeeathe, tom fill....

[conversational aside ends]

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in. deed.

"common sense is an oxymoron, don't you know we've got a war on?"

a phrase latched onto during an early evening walk by the stack over achmelvich way, i seem to recall.

Bob Fuscate

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Eschew… Now there’s a word I haven’t heard in … well, many years. A word as cryptic and obfuscatory as the act the slogan demands we eschew. Which I guess to be the point of the slogan. The statement itself contradicts its content, just like ‘Don’t give orders’ or ‘Hate Hatred’. A sloganistic form of the oxymoron?? As two agents once said, ‘truth is an oxymoron / don’t forget there is a war on’. Or somesuch. So … the slogan may as well read ‘Obfuscate!’ to my eye. In which case it says the very opposite of what it looks like it says. A classic obfuscationist technique…
But a car bumper sticker? This is strange news indeed. They are truly among us.

Car Sticker

Saw a car sticker the other day, which if i recall i've seen before on the same car in York, saying 'Eschew Obfuscation'. The term seems to have a bit of a history...look at wiki entry for 'obfuscation'.

Who is the driver of this car? is the sticker a straight term? can it ever be such...it's loaded, but by who? Are there other examples of this slogan?

hmmm.