I sent it 2 or 3 weeks ago to the snail mail address in Mr. Keaggy’s website. If he truly hasn’t received it by now, I could re-send it. [Full disclosure here - It wasn’t till after I sealed it in the envelope that I realized I put the copy in instead of the “original”.]
Well, it’s taken this long for him to e-mail me; I guess things run slow. Maybe you should re-send it; you’ll end up in his next book! It seems that it’s not some kind of promotional list or he would have heard about it; everybody sends him all kinds of bizarre lists and he apparently hadn’t seen this one.
Sorry to bump the thread, but I just got an e-mail from Bill Keaggy and he’s going to be on Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday. I doubt he’ll be making an entire segment about williamweigand’s bizarre list, but hey, you never know! Check your local listings!
I have an appalling memory, but this thread reminds of that one from a guy who found a box that was very hard to open or something, and it ended up being like a Victorian mystery story. Ring any bells?
What it reminds me of is one of the mysterious messages in FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM.
Thanks for the alert - I’ll go shortly to set up to record that.
And by the way, before coming here I checked Keaggy’s website to see if he’d displayed my list yet. Didn’t see it. Did he mention anything in the email about it, or was that just a press release announcing his TV appearance?
After I set to record Jimmy Kimmel I’m now inspired to skim my copy of that, looking for similarities.
Okay, 4 or 5 teenagers are forming a band. One of them (‘Tom’) lives near you. They’ve been kicking around ideas for band names when they are together.
The most organized of them, we’ll call her ‘Dale’, who doesn’t live near you, has compiled a list of the best names - notice that all the phrases are similarly long and nonsensical, they want a name like ‘Camper Van Beethoven’ not like ‘Rush’. ‘Dale’ dropped off copies of the list at the rest of the bandmember’s houses so that they can vote later. You got the list by accident, as she was wrong about where Tom lives.
Personally I like ‘Apeworld’, but I think they’re gonna go with ‘IillegalToffeyChips’
No, it was about the appearance (with Dakota Fanning and Korn!) and some photo links.
“Dakota Fanning and Korn” sounds like it belongs on the mystery list.
Things to pick up at the grocery store?
sorry
Sounds like my “Curious Parcel” Halloween story from a few years back.
That was a deliberate work of fiction, however. This list is either the ravings of an impaired mind (not to say my story necessarily wasn’t, of course), or a message composed using a codebook or one-time pad of some sort. A one-time pad approach could produce something like this with effectively no chance of the actual message being decoded. Copying it and placing it in multiple mailboxes might help cloud the identity of the intended recipient–none of the other recipients would be able to interpret it.
Of course, it seems likely that a writer who would go to such lengths would be paranoid anyway, so maybe it’s a coded message that says, “Hey, I need my meds!”
It’s about metal working, i.e. decorating metal, like silver and sterling. Noooo doubt about it.
gadolinium = silvery-white, malleable and ductile rare-earth metal
niello = black metallic alloy of sulfur, copper,* silver*, and usually lead, used as an inlay on engraved metal
Moon Dioxine Iillegal ToffeyChips = silver sulfer dioxine
Niello fuses well onto silver and sterling
Niello Machine Felt Loop has something to do with decorating silver (The niello is relatively soft and will therefore respond well to burnishing. Be careful when using a flex shaft or polishing machine for the same reason: the niello will be removed twice as quickly as silver or gold. Stiff polishing equipment such as a leather stick or a felt wheel are preferred)
Beta carotem has an effect has an effect as a stabilizer on preparation of silver
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And this isn’t?
I really enjoyed your thread, BTW - and I’m enjoying this one too, whether or not it’s a work of fiction.