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Coriolis, Doug Dorst, EOTVOS scheibe, eotvos wheel, Filomela Caldeira, Filomela Xabregas Caldeira, FXC, JJ Abrams, V.M. Straka, VM Straka, VMS
If the EOTVOS Wheel is the key to decoding the puzzles in Coriolis, then there are some conclusions we can draw…
- There are still at least two unknown encoded messages in the wheel (it is the key to decoding the puzzles in Coriolis)
- Since the Chapter 10 Cipher was solved using the EOTVOS Wheel, then this means that the original message was encoded into the wheel prior to the writing and release of Ship of Theseus. The solution to the Chapter 10 cipher is I HAVE LOVED YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. I WILL LOVE YOU TO THE END. The implication until now has been that FXC enciphered this message to VMS in the Chapter 10 footnotes of Ship of Theseus. However, if this message was already encoded into the wheel when Coriolis was written, and it was the key to solving ciphers in that text, then it seems that the message was actually encoded by VMS and not by FXC. Perhaps FXC’s Chapter 10 footnotes are not encoding her message to him, but decoding his message to her and she is revealing to him that she discovered it. The marginalia on p433 supports this, indicating that, finally, in the Chapter 10 footnotes FXC is disciplined and truthful in her statements and that the reason for this deviation from her previous methods was “her secret” or maybe even “our secret.”
Did V. M. Straka tell Filomela Caldeira that he loved her, and then reveal that message to her in some way that she discovered?
Thoughts On "S" 
I accidentally discovered that some of the coordinates of various locations mentioned in SoT can be inverted, so N becomes W and S becomes E, yielding the coordinates of other locations mentioned in the book. Perhaps this is what FXC was referring to in the first Interlude footnote: “…the author turns the tables on the Black Hand agent in this first section.” Maybe. I’m more inclined to think it suggests rotating the tables of various ciphers.
In another blog there was a discussion about the wrong coordinates of Calais, resulting in the wrong string XBTUP instead of the missing string LONOE, which is also on the wheel. There was a post, that the wheel-adjustment LONOE maybe gives the coordinates of the location of Bouchard’s chalet (a puzzle in the puzzle?). Unfortunately there are hundreds of pairs of coordinates matching the string.
Let’s assume your theory is right and VMS encoded the wheel (there could be also a possibility that VMS and FXC encoded it together…), and also the theory of the unknown place on the wheel (I don’t believe in the Calais/Maine-theory), then two possibilities are showing up:
1. VMC (and FMX) already knew the coordinates of the chalet when writing ‘Coriolis’ ,
or
2. the missing place is not Bouchard’s chalet but another secret place (very secret! :-o).
I have the Brazilian version of the book and, interestingly, the chapter 10 cypher worked alright for me. There was a little issue with Calais, still, since I had to invert the order that Calais’ and Santiago’s coordinates appeared, but in the end the message still read perfectly and with no gaps:
EUAMEIVOCE
DESDEOINIC
IOEVOUCONT
INUARAAMAR
ATEOFINAL.
This translates exactly the same as the original version in English.
Interesting. So, in your opinion, there is nothing deliberately amiss to cause you to look deeper?
That’s what I think, at least by the Portuguese translation. Unless the translation missed the gap (which makes no sense for me), there is nothing wrong with the cypher.
Thank you. I really appreciate the insights. I think everyone who reads this will as well.