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.