Originally posted on Reddit (not by me) but answers don’t seem to be forthcoming there. Apparently it was found on a bulletin board at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), I would think the most likely explanation is someone playing a prank but if there is any logic behind it I would love to hear it!
Somebody stopped taking their meds.
It might just be some sort of art project.
Incoherent ramblings of a schizophrenia patient. Like someone else said upthread, looks like someone stopped taking their meds.
My first thought as well.
Joe
This seems to be the most likely explanation.
I see notes like that posted somewhat often on telephone poles and walls here in the Seattle area. I’ve always assumed it was just crazy people off their meds. I don’t think there’s any conspiracy or secret society involved here.
I was there last summer. I don’t remember seeing this particular note, though.
I’ll probably be back sometime this year. I’ll look for it.
-D/a
Whoever and for whatever reason, this looks like it took a great deal of effort to put together.
It has the look of half-formed lyrics. Were it not for the distinct shortage of swearing, I’d wonder if it belonged to a rap/hiphop musician.
This is what piqued my interest. It would take me a very very long time to create something so random, if I could do it at all.
If you ever wondered what the voices are saying to schizo’s … well now you’ve got a transcript.
There is actually a lot of logic hidden in it, enough that I think it’s a puzzle.
The first line is the only one that makes sense and it literally says:
“A big picture word puzzle & the double meaning of life in a relative reality.”
Let’s assume that’s true for a second.
If you keep reading and skip some of the words (because I haven’t figured out the puzzle and it still makes little sense)…
*cut to the chase
Ego re-Alms *(“go” and “Al” have lines over them for “goal”)… Ace, is “A”
focus on the Sir–us meSs-age, not on a messenger face
look who Took & see A Trace
to be (or Just, to Be) stud-i-ed, B-race 4u With Grace
together lace
re-ad per syllable space&c-Limb-o up A stair case
To paraphrase: "Cut to the chase.
Goal… “Ace” = “A”
look and see a trace
Be studied, be with grace
together lace
read per syllable space and climb up a staircase "
The next block starts with “verdict sentence” Does this mean it’s there to test and see if you get the trick? At the end of this block of text, after “Store” is a little picture of a moon which I think means you’re supposed to follow where it’s pointing and go to the text block below it. “am”, “art”, and “full” are underlined here, but I don’t know if they mean anything.
Below this block is a line that stretches from left to right across the whole page. It has arrows pointing to the right, then an arrow pointing down by the word “landing”. Follow it down and there is another “landing” line with an arrow. And another.
Follow lines, dots and arrows and you go around the words “revolving door” and finally get to a line saying “flight” with an up arrow beside it. Go up and there is another. And another. And another saying “flight” but no arrow. That line leads to an up arrow on the right and we are at the staircase. I assume you climb the staircase and read a message then at the top is the nickname of the person who made this, the Cosmic Creator.
nobody going off their meds could concentrate well enough to produce that, looks more like somebody self medicating who took a little too much medicine.
**Fubaya **gets, at the very least, an attaboy.
the first thing i thought upon looking at this was henry darger…
Hypergraphia is a symptom of schizophrenia. As are writing with weird capitalization, fixation on religious concepts and claiming “connections” and patterns between non-related concepts
I’d put money on it being someone with a mental illness.
It’s a poem. Do you guys not realize that it’s all rhyming? I guess it’s possible that a mentally-ill person wrote it all, but I think it’s equally possible that an avante-garde, urban “slam” poet created it.
I don’t really see religious concepts, per se, more like buzzwords. Much of it is a simple pattern where the last words rhyme and the words before it are just filler. Like:
surge split
claw spit
caucus slit
campus lit
treadmill writ
Some of them are more related but, to me, it seems like you could lay out the arrows and put some work into the puzzle around them then just generate the rest rather fast then run a program to randomly add hyphens and capitals, perhaps for spacing. The arrows and the little pictures inside the text were laid out before because the words are shifted to make room for them, so I’m convinced it’s a puzzle. It could be a completely unsolvable puzzle created by a crazy person though, too.