Thoughts On "S"

I urge you to dig. Give in to the unknown for a while and ponder the mystery. It’s worth it. – JJ. Abrams

• A Spoiler-Free Beginner’s Guide to Reading “S.” (no spoilers)
• An Intermediate Guide to Reading “S.” (spoilers)
• Walk-Throughs  (detailed, orderly analysis of chapters, characters, or themes)
• Inserts (where the inserts are and what they might mean)
• What it Means to Follow the Monkey

News

• Gaspard Serge Coriolis – These are the wrong trousers (or are they)?
• The Transition from V to VI – Something is happening here
• Forrest Fenn’s Treasure – Sometimes the treasure comes to you.
• Hail to the Sheaf – Intriguing etymological roots that spread themselves throughout “S”
• Boundaries – A look at an overarching theme in “S” – crossing boundaries.
• An Unsettling Theory – An etymological study of the many uses of settle in “S”
• As Thick as Don Quixote – Remarkable Similarities in the Title Pages of DQ and S
• SToRA KArlso?
• Is the Toronto Review a Secret Message?
• Await What the Stars Will Bring

• Exasperatingly Endless – Is there a Code in this Footnote?
• A new blog surfaces with intriguing contributions to the “S” mystery
• Mystimus speaks to Doug Bolles of 42minutes.com in this podcast on “S” and LOST.
• What it Means to Follow the Monkey
• Agent #4 and His Travels
• Where in the World is El-H–?
• The Name and Location of B–
• The World Knows S’s Name
• Liar, Liar, Pants on Pfeifer

Blog Posts

• The Transition from V to VI

• Hail to the Sheaf

• Boundaries – A look at an overarching theme in S – crossing boundaries.

• As Thick as Don Quixote – Remarkable Similarities in the Title Pages of DQ and S

• SToRA KArlso?
• Is the Toronto Review a Secret Message?
• Await What the Stars Will Bring

• Exasperatingly Endless – Is there a Code in this Footnote?
• What it Means to Follow the Monkey
• Agent #4 and His Travels
• Where in the World is El-H–?
• The Name and Location of B–
• The World Knows S’s Name
• Liar, Liar, Pants on Pfeifer
• An Unsettling Theory
• A new Portuguese Blog, the Island of Obsidian, Examines the Mysteries of “S”
• There is Only One Footnote in Chapter 9: Birds of Negative Space
• The Interlude – Tocatta and Fugue in Real Time
• Let the Speculation Begin about the Number 7
• Agent X Marks the Spot
• The Many Colors of Chapter 2
• The Quality of Silence
• In Search of the Cipher in the Foreword
• A Love “Letter” to the Written Word
• An Interactive Map of Locations in “S”
• A Stitch in Time Saves Nine? (A study of the number 9 throughout “S”)
• The Answers You Seek May Be Found at the Library
• The Library of San Tadeo de la Tejera (a study of the insert between pages 20-21)
• Is this the Location of Vevoda’s Chateau?
• An Assassin’s Pen – an examination of the three appearances of the poison pen
• What Begins at the Water – a new theory on the meaning of “S”
• Location, Location, Location – a walkthrough of S’s emphasis on location.
• Did VMS tell FXC he loved her using the EOTVOS Wheel?
• Why do We Have Eric & Jen’s copy of Ship of Theseus?
• The Complete Works of V.M. Straka (a handy reference guide to all nineteen of Straka’s novels)
• The Wall Writing and its Possible Code
• HELLO RAIN. I SEE YOU’VE MET MY PARADE.
• The Sign of the Raven
• An Intermediate Guide to Reading “S” – for those who have finished a first-read and want to go deeper
• “S” is Absurd
• The Canadian Adventurer C. F. J. Wallingford
• The Interlude Cipher
• More Clues – Can You Read This?
• Estonian Composer Ragnar Rummo: Real?
• New Clues from the Straka Obituary in the Baltimore Bugle-Dispatch
• The Location of PSU Discovered! (Connections to Hemingway and Pfeifer)
• New Clues from the Jen Hayward Tumblr Blog
• Transparent Man – Connections in the Alternate Ending
• The Havana Hotel Room Photographs are Fake
• Birds of Negative Space (all the answers await)
• Racing the Clock to Locate Yourself
• Chapter 7: The Obsidian Island
• It All Goes Back to Calais, Part 2 (new clues surface)
• Follow the Monkey and You’ll Find…Yourself
• When Eric found Filomela (amazing connections)
• St. Sebastian appears again
• Free autographed copies of S are being hidden, with clues to their locations tweeted by @DougDorst.
• The Rumor Mill is the Principality of Rumor?
• You All Everybody! New clues surface in “S”
• The Commingled Joy and Terror of Creation (Metaphysical poetry in “S”)
• Sensible Vultures
• When the Projector Went Out
• Maelstrom – an Exhaustive Translation
• Connections Between p18-19 and the End of Chapter Three
• There is Nothing to Know About Six. Six is Nothing.
• S’s Overcoat: A Grand Metaphorical Interpretation
• The Waterwheel Theory
• It takes TIME to Understand the Valise
• Hidden in Plain Sight: S. = Vaclav Straka?
• An Interpretation of S.’s Dreams of Sola
• Straka’s Original Ending to Ship of Theseus
• Clues in the Interlude: Toccata and Fugue in Real Time (Fn2, p300)
• The Archer’s Tales – How to Find It
• Interesting Connections – a Growing List of random but intriguing connections in “S.”
• John Locke in “S”
• Book Club Kit arrives from Mulholland
• Proof that V.M. Straka did not die in Havana?
• The Archer’s Tales – from Magpie to Bullseye
• Whatever the Case May Be 2 (The Valise)
• Whatever the Case May Be (The Valise)
• The May 8th Interview with Doug Dorst
• Fn2 of the Foreword Yields Clues
• Something is happening on April 28
• The Emersion of S.
• KEY STOLEN. ASSUME BAG GONE. I FAILED
• p268 of The Winged Shoes of Emydio Alves has surfaced!
• Unifying “S.” and the four alternate endings
• Alternate Ending for Chapter 10 of Ship of Theseus by V.M. Straka EPH-9993 (00291)
• Those Campfire Stories
• The Way Out Was Down. Is Down.
• The Storehouse at El H—
• Similarities between LOST and “S.”
• The Waste Land
• Who is The Lady on Obsidian Island?
• Sobreiro – The Cork Tree
• What Begins, What Ends (an examination of the focus on beginnings and endings)
• Every 19 Pages: A Walkthrough
• Connections (Part 2) in the Interlude (Toccata and Fugue in Real Time)
• Connections in the Interlude (Toccata and Fugue in Real Time)
• The Symbols on the Cave Wall (a closer look at the symbols on p184)
• Reconnecting with Ourselves in “S”
• It all Goes Back to Calais
• The Postcards from Eric Husch to Jen Heyward During his Trip to Brazil
• Thoughts on Chapter 1: What Begins, What Ends
• “S.” Sees Himself in “S.” (Why does “S.” see his time-traveling self?)
• Coriolis and Finnegans Wake (similarities between Coriolis by V.M. Straka and Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce)
• Godel, Escher, Bach in “S” (Self-reference and the Eternal Golden Braid)
• Eric Husch’s Letter to Jen Heyward (Biblical overtones along with allusions to the Titanic and Parmenides of Elea)
• Birds of Negative Space in Gödel, Escher, Bach
• The Archer’s Tales and the Tortugan Journals
• Is “S” on a Fugue Walkabout?
• The Card from Jean Bernard Desjardins
• The Summersby Confession Transcript
• The Winged Shoes of Emydio Alves
• Terra Australis Incognita (Startling connections in “S.” to the unknown land of the south)
• The Letter from Desjardins to Eric Husch
• A Game-Changing Look at “S.” (Fn5, p52 might just lead to a brand-new way to look at “S”)
• The answers you seek may be found at the library
• What is the Substance? (what is that black stuff
• The letter from Ermelinda Pega to Eric and Jen
• What is “the tradition?” (a strictly metaphorical analysis)
• The Burden-Shirt in The Drifting Twins (Fn5, p252)
• Thoughts on Chapter 9: Birds of Negative Space
• The Sisterhood of Filomela Caldeira and Amarante Durand (Fn13, p231)
• A Torrent of Words (an in-depth look at the 24 phrases in the “torrent of words” on p380)
• San Sebastián Hotel in Havana, Cuba (Jack Shephard in LOST practiced in San Sebastián Hospital. Coincidence?)
• The Truth About Jen’s Empty Blue Square in the Marginalia
• Who is Edsel B. Grimshaw?  (Clues to the identity of EBG, mentioned in the marginalia and the external insert review)
• Omphaloskepsis
• The Cipher’s Progress: V.M. Straka’s Ship of Theseus
• Follow the Monkey (a walkthrough of monkey appearances along with a metaphorical interpretation)
• Avoid Grand Central (similarities in Eric’s steam-tunnel map, the first bomb on the wharf in B__, and the beginning of World War I)
• Carl Jung and “S” (similarities between the story of “S.” and the writings of Carl Jung)
• XBTUP – X Marks the Spot
• It’s Been a Hard Day’s Night
• Holystones
• Eureka!

 Questions? Comments? Email me at mystimus@gmail.com.