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1939 World's Fair, Ash Wednesday, Doug Dorst, Eric Husch, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Jennifer Heyward, JJ Abrams, S, V.M. Straka, valise, VM Straka
UPDATE – ORIGINAL POST BELOW
Today, @EricHusch appears to have met with what he originally thought was a member of SERIN. He relayed the entire story to @JenTheUndergrad. The meeting took place at 1900 hours (7pm ET) at the Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in Queens, NY, on the 75th anniversary of the World’s Fair in NYC. The person that Eric met with…
- Carried an old valise
- Had a copy Compendium of Birds by P.T. Russell
- Gave a new, yet-to-be-revealed alternative ending to Chapter 10 of Ship of Theseus to join the others (v.288)
- Had an apparent copy of The Archer’s Tales, with a look promised to Eric if he could help identify Straka’s real ending
- Quoted T.S. Eliot “April is the cruelest month”
- Referenced Archimedes’ Lever
- Claimed he was not with SERIN
- Implied that @MCrinitus is with SERIN
- Indicated he knew Jen and threatened them both to cease contact with SERIN and Crinitus – reminding Eric of the torn page in his pocket from April 28
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ORIGINAL POST
The normally quiet and otherwise innocuous twitter accounts of @EricHusch and @JenTheUndergrad erupted this past week with a —conversation indicating the Eric received more money from SERIN and a single round-trip ticket to NYC for next Monday, April 28. It looks like something may be happening. Given the recent clues about the valise stolen from FXC at Grand Central Terminal prior to 1949, it could be that we get a peek inside!
In addition, many S. bloggers (myself not included), recently received a MulHolland Books “S. Reading Group Kit.” You can see the contents for those who posted them here (if I missed links to your kit let me know)…
Some of the postcards appear to be those that Brazil distributed at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. Interesting.
Next Wednesday, April 30, is the 75th Anniversary of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. And Eric Husch is leaving Prague on April 28, courtesy of the Serin Institute, to come to New York City.
This means Eric will likely be in town on the anniversary. Will he meet someone on April 30 on the old fairgrounds, now Flushing Meadows Corona Park? Perhaps at the (former) sight of the sundial (link courtesy of @JillAggieArg)?
Surely it is no coincidence that the press kits pointing to the 1939 World’s Fair in NYC, the 75th anniversary next week, and Eric Husch’s trip to NYC next week all occur so close together?
To make it even more interesting, the fairgrounds were built on the site of a vast ash dump. If Eric does go there next week on the anniversary, it would be an Ash Wednesday of sorts. 🙂
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UPDATE
It appears that Eric has arrived in NYC today – April 28. Someone put a crumpled page from Ship of Theseus in his pocket at the airport (p155-156) with a single set of margin notes…
Flushing Meadows
19:00
30th
This seems to indicate that Eric is to meet with someone (SERIN?) in the park at 7pm ET Wednesday, April 30th.
April 29 was an oddly uneventful day. No meetings with SERIN. Eric checked in with Jen via twitter since his phone is apparently unable to call Prague. He checked in from Grand Central, the New York Public Library, Bryant Park (next to the library), Washington Square Park, and Little Italy. Not sure if this is a way to kill time or walk us through Straka-related items? Washington Square Park is right next to Washington & Greene Streets – a nod to the titular 11th book by V.M. Straka. Is it also a reference to The Square (Straka’s 3rd book?) His trip to Grand Central could refer to The Winged Shoes of Emydio Alves since the GCT has a statue of Mercury on top. The library? Maybe this hearkens back to Doug Dorst’s tweet that the answers we seek may be found at the library.
Tomorrow seems to be the big day – but not until 7pm ET (1900 hours). What will Eric be doing until then? What will happen at the meeting in Flushing Meadows?
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Just thought interesting…
QUEENS MUSEUM
The museum is housed in a building that dates to the 1939 World’s Fair, which marks its 75th anniversary this year. It also briefly housed the United Nations General Assembly after World War II. Exhibits include posters from both fairs and a replica of Michelangelo’s “Pieta,” which was shown in the Vatican Pavilion during the ’64 fair.
The museum’s most famous display, the “Panorama of the City of New York,” is a scale model of the city that debuted at the ’64 fair. The panorama includes models of each of the city’s 895,000 buildings built before 1992, along with every street, park and bridge, on a scale of 1 to 1,200. The island of Manhattan is 70 feet long (21 meters), the Empire State building 15 inches tall (38 centimeters).
Opening April 27 is an exhibit of posters that pop artist Andy Warhol did for the ’64 World’s Fair, inspired by mug shots of the city’s 13 most-wanted criminals from 1962. The posters were too controversial for the fair and were never shown.
Located in the park, near the Willets Point stop on the No. 7 train. Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.; adults, $8, children under 12, free.
We know from reports that there are so far 8 pencils and 4 postcards that 4 lucky people received
with their kits.
We also know Jen & Eric will meet in NY on April 28. That means we have to work quickly. There are 3 possible locations presented so far. The clock at Grand Central, or Queens Museum or Time Square.
20042
20052
20057
20058
20059
20060
20065
20068
Are the numbers of the colored pencils. The post cards all refer to Brazil.
All clues about what is about to happen.
Bad robot the box. Abrams the box his grandfather got for him at the magick shop that he never opened. What is the address? Downtown NY. It was on the cover of Wired magazine.
.J. Abrams has never been reticent when it comes to talking about his love for the mystery box. Not only was it the subject of his 2007 TED Talk, it was the basis for his WIRED issue as guest editor. But Abrams’ mystery box is no longer an abstract concept or metaphor.
It is, however, for sale.
Yes, the mystery box can be yours for a cool $149.95. Constructed by magicians collective theory11 in collaboration with Abrams and his Bad Robot production company, each mystery box is handcrafted from 100-year-old reclaimed wood, locked with an alphanumeric combination and branded with the question mark symbol so familiar to mystery-box enthusiasts.
Inside each box are 12 decks of Mystery Box Playing Cards, designed by Abrams and art director Jonathan Bayme, and a letterpressed note from Abrams himself. Yes, playing cards. (This is the part where you insert your own ghostly sounds of mystery, or possibly a raspberry.)
What’s on the playing cards? Well, that’s part of the mystery. “The choice to open the box, or not, is yours,” runs the promotional text for the project. “Mystery Box Playing Cards were designed and developed as a monument to mystery: a tribute to our love of magic, wonder, and infinite possibility. What’s inside the box?”
Think of them as Schroedinger’s Playing Cards, perhaps. Or, perhaps more appropriately, another move for the director and writer towards the fetishization of physical artifacts following last year’s stunning S. Or just a really, really expensive set of playing cards for suckers. Regardless, proceeds from the sale of the box (or just a pack of the cards, available for $9.95) go toward 826 National, the non-profit dedicated to promoting creative writing in schools and workshops across the United States.
Find out more—but not much more, because this is meant to be a mystery—here.
https://store.theory11.com/products/mysterybox
Flushing Meadows site of the NY Worlds Fair 1939 & 1964
Theory11… The 11th book…mystery package… do not open!
Be words can inspire.
To many umbrella’s, which one is he?
A different ship a different Archer’s Tales a different interlude…
P.T. Russell’s Compendium of Birds is in the valise. Pg 222 lead us to the Nihilist cipher and Macinnes. Going back in circles again.
Rybarik address???
When someone looks in one direction and 19 will look in another. The group may not like the alternative direction.