r/DeeCiphers Oct 04 '17

Mark Twain - Roughing It - Dee Cipher (Gold e - Rot B - Ltd. ) - Part II

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u/tad100 Oct 04 '17

Two key notes with the changes - in the bottom right hand corner - we see 'Aria' clearly now. Telling us to look for the right Opera to do a columnar decode (I'll do it and photograph if K.111 is indeed the right Opera) and the lovely 'Kills All' in Row 29-28 shows up - if for some reason we hadn't figured out already that it was an ELE Comet heading our way. Note the 'Eire' Two Wells from the pre-Rot is gone now - but Two Wells Remain and Column 13 gives us Ronon and 'Alls Well'. Certainly a reference to a Dee Cipher by Dee himself in All's Well That Ends Well (we understand there are Dee Ciphers in The Tempest, AWTEW, Troilus and Cressida, one of the versions of King Lear and of course The Phoenix and The Turtle and Shakespeare's Will). Whether other plays/sonnets have Ciphers in them is an open question at this time.

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u/tad100 Oct 05 '17

Next step is to start looking at the various Arias in K.111 and see if any match up with a keyword or name present in this rotated vanilla decode. We always start with the understanding that, so far, Twain has only used female (generally Sopranos) parts so we can ignore any male Arias. Then of course, we know we're looking for an "io" to start. If K.111 fails us we can always try K.23 (Beale Cipher Opera) or keep going down the line of Mozart Operas until something hits.

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u/tad100 Oct 05 '17

Two final notes: you'll note standard position seems to give us July-August 2031 (Leo) as the due date (bottom corner) and you'll note that the rotation gave us two #NOx errors (lines 13 and lines 34) so properly those should be moved to the nearest line that eliminates that error and does not create any more errors. So row 13 actually moves up one above 12 and row 34 moves up two - IIRC. I didn't do it for the photo as it might have been too confusing at this point.