a place to discuss the fragmenting pages that Sullivan Green left his daughter when he died.
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if you havenāt read Ascenderās post, do that now, then download the pages. I set up this topic so we can all work together to figure what the hellās going on.
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Iāve been able to print off copies of the pages and they donāt seem to be self-corrupting (as of yet). The Roman Numerals still stick out like a sore thumb, but Iām now curious about the differences between the hand-written text and the final published page. the differences could be merely stylistic choices by the author, but perhaps they deserve a closer look? All changes were of a single word with one exception (which Iāll come back to). the first word is from the original hand-written text, the second from the revised, published version.
changed/reversed
traveling/passing
and/word omitted from published text
continued/searched
on/across
climb/climbed
So, if we string the words from the original hand-written text, we get:
āchanged traveling and continued on climbā
Could be something or could be me trying to see something that just isnāt there. however, this entire sentence was ADDED to the published text:
āI might have cut these flowers down in another life. Left them to rot in a cup on a table, their dying bodies arranged for my enjoyment. But not this life.ā
A hint to the timeline that was?
This could all be nothing more than simple editorial decisions made to improve the writing. But why leave this as part of a will if they werenāt important?
Curious what others have to say about this.
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Interesting point, Michael. I hadnāt thought that the cut sentence could be in reference to, or an example of, the altered timeline.
The altered text passages are definitely the biggest lead we have, and the strongest hint that the pages might be the fragment the Book of Briars mentioned. Wondering, if as the āBoBā mentioned, there are going to be sixteen āfragmentsā that become four keys, should we create a Forum dedicated to the fragments? Now that weāve been given a name to call them?
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Just so it saves people time and mental energy, I already tried applying the roman numerals to each of the pages to see if the numbers were pointing to any specific words. I didnāt find anything but for the sake of combing things over here you go:
5.18.24.27.44.52.59.88.104.108
Poem: "the and gone green take in sodden the am (no 108)
Published Page: āpath by a soil disappeared made that itself branches coatā
Handwritten Page: āpath by a soil disappeared made that until catching andā
So as you can probably tell my heart flitted a bit when I read āpath by aā¦ā and then my hope crumbled as it went on to nonsensical land.
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Maybe Iām reading WAY to far into this but here are several thoughts I have about all of this:
ā¢ Has Ackerly Green changed into a butterfly?
ā¢ His breathless attraction to these flowers
ā¢ The changed words between published/written talking about change, traveling etc.
ā¢ Deirdraās attraction to butterflies
ā¢ The added text āI might have cut these flowers down in another lifeā¦ā
ā¢ His poem about his body passing into nature
ā¢ Isnāt there something about butterflies representing people who died or something like that?
ā¢ ā33ā changing into a mirror image or butterfly
Thereās a quote from an old Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi:
āOnce upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.ā
I feel like thereās something going on with butterflies, symmetry or mirroring here.
LASTLY I want to draw your attention to the drawings in the corners of the published page. Theyāre all different and they all seem to look like the flower buds Green was writing about! Do they symbolize something? Are they a clue? Am I way off track?
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OK I couldnāt find anything apparent on this post but in the spirit of trying to find connections I read over Deirdraās post from July 17, 2016 (127 years after the writing of the page from Ackerly):
"Did I really think that I could come back here to live full time? Bunratty isā¦ Well letās say itās small. Tony in fact. Even Limerick is tiny. Auntie Monica though ā she makes it feel good. I didnāt realise it had been nine months since Iād seen her. FaceTime makes it feel less I guess.
I sat at the bar of Nellyās while she worked her shift last night. I drank too much mostly because other people were buying. Itās one advantage of being away so long. Saw some old mates from school. CiarĆ”n Connell was in, looking almost as cute as he was in Sixth Year. I didnāt make too much of a fool of myself with the Jamesons. I donāt think. I hope not.
We havenāt talked about everything thatās going on yet. Waiting for the right time or maybe for these changes to process. Auntie Monica seems a āavoidyā to say the least. DBx"
You can see it online here.
Can anyone make any connections?
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I saved all of the corrupting pages here: http://imgur.com/a/8WNKf
I am not sure if there is any information hidden in them or if the corruption is random.
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Lot of great observations. You mentioned the flower images in the four corners of the published text and I noticed that one in the upper-right corner doesnāt have any flowers, only leaves. Could be a random coincidence but at this point, with so many variables, I thought it would be worth mentioning.
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Thanks for putting up all the corrupted pages. The corruption does look random, but some of the pages have changed colors, from black to green, blue, etc. Iāll have to put them in Photoshop and overlay them to see if they create a new RGB image of text or, perhaps, an actual image (?).
CameronPās notice of the flowers in the corners piques my interest as well (see earlier reply) and Iām curious to see if it is the illustrations that hold part of the clue and not solely the text.
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I love that idea, Mike. Maybe analyzing the actual corruption will provide us with a better clue as to the message weāre being sent.
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great to see you guys working on this. keep it up. will update if we discover anything on our end. Hey michael, I saw ur a Flinter at the campfire? We need to update that user icon of yours. canāt have my brother going around with the stock 'shop
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hey, also, since it looks like the pages from SG could be the fragment bob mentioned, Endri asked me to move this topic to the new Fragment forum.
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Cameron, I think youāre on to something with the date. July 17th seems to be an important date. The Remains page is dated July 17 1889, Deeds has a journal entry on July 17 2016, and the bookofbriar.com website went up on July 17 2016 and sent out the emails. Seems to big of a coincidence that the site launches on the same day 127 years after the Remains page is dated. Question is, what is the significance? Googling that date I havenāt been able to find anything of particular interest that occurred on that day. Perhaps it is the 127 years number that is of more importance.
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Also, the only pattern i noticed in the roman numerals is that they continually increase.
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Hi all - I thought I would have a Google about for July 17 facts: July 17 - Wikipedia What Happened on July 17th This Day in History
Nothing significant here about 1889, but thought Iād share 
Thanks for saving the corrupted pages Andy.
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Iāve been fiddling with the corrupted pages in photoshop but nothing is jumping out at me. There are still a few things I want to try yet, but Iām afraid this might be a dead end.
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Something about the capitalized letters in the poem keep jumping out at me, so I isolated them in order and tried to do a scramble of sorts, see if some combination shook loose a clue weād been looking for. Fruitless. Here it is, in case anything works for your guys?
I I C A I T T T U E B T I M M M A I Y B
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To double down on some of Allisonās theories about July 17th, I had a second look at the Wikipedia links. Nothing about the historical dates jumped out at me. But I remembered that a lot of whatās floating around in these forums was circling the idea of rebirth, new lives and the butterfly emerging as something new. So I scrolled to the āsignificant birthsā section of the July 17th page, to 1889 (when the corrupted pages were published).
One entry: Erle Stanley Gardner, an American lawyer and novelist, famous for his Perry Mason detective short stories
Erle wrote under a few different pseudonyms. Who doesnāt? But one of the names he used was Charles M. Green. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
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GUYS! The very first corrupt page (the poem) has a faint image of the published journal entry in it, but itās reversed! (āchange/reverseā) If you put it into photoshop, do a curves adjustment and absolutely crush the blacks you can see it. The lines of the poem are in line with some of the lines of the published entry but I canāt draw any conclusions. The first thing I think about are the roman numerals at the bottom now being reversed which, if read left to right, are now:
44.27.24.18.5
108.104.88.59.52
But thereās something more about this reversed pageā¦ Iām trying to figure it out but need help!
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